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iHuman Inc. Files 2023 Annual Report on Form 20-F
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VOTING RIGHTS HEATING UP
August 25, 2011
Citing evidence that the State of Michigan is failing to provide low-income residents with a legally-mandated opportunity to register to vote, attorneys from Demos, Project Vote, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law (LCCRUL), and the NAACP sent a pre-litigation notice letter to Secretary of State Ruth Johnson ...
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Black Mayor Wins Historic Mississippi Primary
August 24, 2011
Hattiesburg, Mississippi Mayor Johnny DuPree became the first black candidate to win a major-party nomination for governor shortly after 9 o'clock last night. Mississippi has not had a black statewide official since Reconstruction. DuPree, 57, a three-term mayor of Hattiesburg, advances to the Nov. 8 general election to face Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, 56, of Brandon. In his victory address in downtown Hattiesburg ...
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Minority Counsel Assoc. Names New President
August 23, 2011
Joseph K. West has been selected as the new President and CEO of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA). Mary E. Snapp, Board Chair of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA), announced today that West, currently an Associate General Counsel at Walmart, will take the position effective September 12. He succeeds Veta T. Richardson, who is now serving in the position of President and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). A long-time acquaintance ...
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White CA Cops Allege "Anti-White" Discrimination
August 23, 2011
In California, a white male cop claims he was passed over for a promotion in 2007 because of racial bias. "The city has a longstanding custom and practice in discriminating against white males," according to a lawsuit complaint filed by officers Heinz Hofmann and Thomas Buckley. "The reason plaintiffs were passed over for lower ...
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Obama Latino Support Slipping
August 23, 2011
A tracking poll by impreMedia, a Hispanic news company, today indicated declining support for President Obama and the results suggest that the President and Democratic Party may face a continuing political problem in retaining Hispanic support. The survey was conducted between late July and early August, and compared results with a poll ...
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Native American Fair Commerce Coalition Names Strategic Advisor
August 19, 2011
The Native American Fair Commerce Coalition (NAFCC) has retained Barry W. Brandon as Strategic Advisor. Brandon, a respected attorney and advocate for the Native American community nationwide, will represent the NAFCC in Washington DC in support of the organization's campaigns to promote tribal economic development and sovereignty rights. Brandon is the Founder and President of Hvmken ...
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POLL: BLACK VS. WHITE ATTITUDES
August 19, 2011
- A new Gallup poll just released shows Black and White Americans have starkly different views on the appropriate role of government in dealing with civil rights in this country. A majority of Blacks (59%) say that the government should play a major role in improving the social and economic position of Blacks, while 19% of Whites agree. A little over half of Blacks (52%) say that new civil rights laws are needed in this country, while 15% of Whites agree. ...
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Feds Sue Racist CA Restaurant Chain
August 18, 2011
The federal government is suing a Panda Express restaurant in West San Jose, California, for making its Latino workers clean toilets while Asian employees stood by and watched. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a federal court filing that the general manager of the Panda Express gave Latino workers fewer hours and more menial jobs. The commission also said the manager more frequently and harshly disciplined Latino employees. ...
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NY Lawmakers Push For Urban Jobs Act
August 16, 2011
With more than one-third of the nation's minority youth unemployed, a group of politicians and community activists today stood at Make the Road New York in Jackson Heights today, to continue their push for federal legislation aimed at increasing employment among at-risk youth. The Urban Jobs Act, they say, would provide federal funding to nonprofit organizations, allowing them to carry out programming ...
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MINORITIES: END FINGERPRINTING
August 16, 2011
Activists are demonstrating outside the state Democratic Party's headquarters in Atlanta today calling on the Obama administration to scrap a federal fingerprint-sharing program aimed at deporting illegal immigrants. The demonstrators complained the “Secure Communities†program is tearing families apart and distracting local police from other crime-fighting priorities. They timed their demonstration to coincide with protests in Chicago and other cities across the nation. ...
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Gov Creates Black Commission To Examine Disparities In Illinois
August 16, 2011
A bill signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn will create a commission to research the disparities facing African-Americans in the areas of healthcare, health services, employment, education, criminal justice, housing and other social and economic issues. “We know that disparities exist within the African-American community, preventing some from achieving their full potential,†Governor Quinn said in a statement. ...
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Not Enough Black Police Recruits, Says NAACP
August 16, 2011
The New Jersey State police department has come under criticism from the state chapter of the NAACP for not having enough black cadets in this year's recruit class. The first class of recruits in two years reports for training today ...
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Crimes Against Latinos Up 46 Percent In CA
August 15, 2011
California Attorney General Kamala Harris' report on hate crimes showed that hate crimes against Latinos increased from 81 in 2009 to 119 in 2010, a 46.9-percent jump. "A crime that is motivated by hate is a crime against all people," Attorney General Harris said. "We will monitor and prosecute these cases to the fullest extent of the law." The Attorney General's report, "Hate Crime in California 2010" ...
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Menthol Cigarettes Harder For Blacks To Quit
August 15, 2011
A new study from the Cancer Institute of New Jersey and UMDNJ-School of Public Health concludes that menthol cigarettes are harder to quit than regular smokes. One of the key points of the research findings was that menthol was found to be generally more common among younger smokers and females. ...
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Feds Must Justify Withholding Black Panther Docs
August 11, 2011
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that a federal court rejected a claim of the attorney work product doctrine by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for documents prepared after the government dismissed its case against the New Black Panther Party ...
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Lack Of Financial Know-How Leaves Latino Firms Exposed
August 11, 2011
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company's "The Business Owner Financial Wellness" study emphasizes the lack of a long-term strategy by many Hispanic entrepreneurs, who in 89 percent of the cases founded their firms to economically support their families and seven of 10 of whom want to hand the company down to their children although the majority do not have any concrete succession plans. ...
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Civil Rights Museum Presents 20th Anniversary Freedom Awards
August 11, 2011
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Civil Rights Museum, the 2011 Freedom Awards will be given to select individuals for their contributions to civil and human rights, education, the arts, sports community, justice and for their dedication to creating opportunity for the disenfranchised. Honorees this year include Danny Glover, Cicely Tyson, Bill Russell, Alonzo Mourning, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, among others. The Freedom Awards is a global civil rights event, part of the mission ...
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Native American Docs Try to Reduce High Death Rates
August 11, 2011
The 40th annual AAIP (Association of American Indian Physicians) conference is being held in Portland, Oregon this week, as more than 200 Native American doctors focus on ways to reduce high death rates afflicting tribes across the country. The death rate for Native Americans from tuberculosis and alcoholism ...
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Legal Diversity Topic A
August 10, 2011
Findings from two new, important studies on diversity in the legal profession will be presented by The Minority Corporate Counsel Association (MCCA) at its Creating Pathways to Diversity Conference on September 26. The conference will take place 7:30 am to 8:00 pm at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. ...
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Diversity Report Card: WNBA Earns Top Score
August 10, 2011
According to the 2011 Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Racial and Gender Report Card released by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES), the WNBA received an A+ for race and an A for gender. The WNBA has consistently been the industry leader for all professional sport when it comes to diversity. The 94.7 points earned for race was the highest total for race in the history of the WNBA. The WNBA received a combined A+ in the 2009 and 2010 Report Cards. In the 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006â€07, 2008, 2009, 2010 and now the 2011 Racial and Gender Report Cards. ...
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MASSACHUSETTS MINORITIES DUPED
August 09, 2011
Resolving claims of unfair and discriminatory lending practices, a subsidiary of H&R Block will modify thousands of Massachusetts homeowners’ loans and make a significant payment to the Commonwealth as part of a settlement valued at $125 million, state Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. “Option One made loans that it knew were likely to fail and it discriminated against African-American and Latino borrowers,†Attorney General Coakley said. ...
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Feds Settle With Ala School Board Over Racial Disparities
August 09, 2011
The U.S. Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with the Pickens County, Ala., school board to eliminate racial disparities in its system. Under terms of the agreement, the board, working with state officials, will develop policies and programs to eliminate racial disparities in student discipline, grade retention, graduation rates and post-graduate scholarships, the Justice Department said in a release. The agreement further obligates the board to intensify its efforts to recruit minority ...
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FEDS THROW IMMIGRATION A CURVE
August 08, 2011
In a surprise move, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that it would rescind all 39 memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with states to implement “Secure Communities†(S-Comm.) The letter from the Obama administration voided agreements they had signed with states to authorize the state's participation in the program in the belief that state participation was not voluntary anyway. ...
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Convictions In Post-Katrina Bridge Shootings
August 08, 2011
A federal jury issued across-the-board guilty verdicts against five officers from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) on 25 counts in connection with the federal prosecution of a police-involved shooting on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina and an extensive cover-up of those shootings The incident resulted ...
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Feds Address Drug And Alcohol Abuse In Tribal Nation
August 08, 2011
Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Ken Salazar today announced a new federal framework to assist American Indian and Alaska Native communities in achieving their goals in the prevention, intervention and treatment of alcohol and substance abuse. ...
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North American Indians Suffer Disproportionate Climate Impacts
August 08, 2011
North American Indian tribes, who have lived close to the land for generations, are disproportionately affected by climate change, according to a study released by the National Wildlife Federation. There have been eight weather and climate disasters in the first half of 2011. ...
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Byron E. Lewis, CEO of UniWorld, to kick off Diversity Summit
August 08, 2011
The Seventh Annual World Diversity Leadership Summit (“WDLSâ€) will be held September 6th to 8th, 2011 in New York City. The conference will gather chief diversity officers, corporate executives, government leaders and policy makers from around the world to discuss diversity and inclusion challenges and opportunities ...
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Navajo Nation Settles Land Royalty Case
August 05, 2011
The Navajo Nation's allegations that a coal mining company conspired with others to cheat the tribe out of millions of dollars has been settled in federal court. The Navajo Nation, Peabody Energy, Salt River Project and Southern California Edison today announced they have reached a settlement agreement on the 1999 Navajo royalty litigation. ...
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Black Radio Mogul Dies
August 05, 2011
Dorothy Brunson, the first black female radio station owner in America, died this past weekend after complications from ovarian cancer. She was 72. Brunson got her start in 1962 as the assistant controller of New York City's WWRL-AM (1600). She rose through the ranks to become GM, and later joined WLIB-AM. ...
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US Sues Illinois City For Housing Discrimination
August 05, 2011
The federal government has filed a housing discrimination lawsuit against the city of Joliet in Illinois. The lawsuit filed in Chicago claims Joliet hasn't offered an affordable housing plan to accommodate the mostly black residents who'd be displaced by the planned condemnation of the Evergreen Terrace housing complex. The Department of Justice lawsuit alleges that the city violated the Fair Housing Act and the Housing and Community Development Act by taking a series of actions, culminating in the taking through eminent domain ...
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Group Wants 2nd All Latino District in Calif.
August 04, 2011
The Los Angeles Redistricting Committee’s new constituency lines was met with fierce opposition by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). At issue for the group is the fact that the Los Angeles County Board ...
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