Today's Date: May 24, 2022
NCCI Golf Event Generates $25,000 for Kids' Chance of America Scholarships   •   True Religion and London-Based Artist Soldier Reimagine Camouflage in Upcoming Capsule Collection   •   Closing the Health Disparity Gap for Black Women   •   Beech-Nut® Nutrition Company is Recognized by BabyCenter and Healthline Food Awards   •   Equitable Bank Releases Inaugural ESG Performance Report   •   Mrs. Flowers Takes the Helm at Comfort Home Care, Rockville, MD   •   Five Bluum Standouts Honored on CRN 2022 Women of the Channel List   •   Checkmarx' Ana Lucia Amaral Honored as a CRN 2022 Woman of the Channel   •   Crumbl Cookies, the Nation’s Largest Cookie Company, Coming to East Peoria   •   University of Phoenix Holds Annual Memorial Day Flag-Planting Event Honoring Fallen Soldiers   •   Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $50 Million in Grants in First Quarter of 2022    •   Tracey Hayes from MicroAge Named on CRN's 2022 Women of the Channel Power 70 Solution Providers List   •   Apple Unveils New Apple Watch Pride Edition Bands   •   Carve Designs Unspools Short Film Series, “Mothers, Purpose + the Future,” Spotlighting Women/Mothers Living in Ha   •   Torrid Announces Reporting Date for First Quarter Fiscal 2022 Financial Results   •   Four recipients of the 2022 Awards of Excellence in Nursing announced from Indigenous Services Canada   •   Global Surrogacy Services Announces Outreach to Potential Gestational Surrogates in Three Southwestern States   •   Supergoop! and Blackstone Growth (BXG) Partner with New Investors to Teach Even More People About the Importance of Daily SPF   •   RNR Tire Express Surprises Tampa-Area Woman with New Car in Mother's Day Giveaway   •   NAPA AUTO PARTS Makes Driving to Dollywood a Breeze Thanks to Parking Lot Vehicle Assistance Program
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Mourners Protest Black Youths Death By NYPD

Mourners Protest Black Youths Death By NYPD

NEW YORK – One year after a white New York police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old black youth, the victim’s friends and family took to the streets of the Bronx, NY over the weekend to protest police bias. Ramarley Graham was killed from a single shot fired by police officer Richard Haste who followed Graham into his home. The cop was part of a narcotics detail. Haste said he fired his weapon believing Graham was reaching for a gun. He had no weapon. ... read more
Violence Against Asians Grips Harlem

Violence Against Asians Grips Harlem

New York – Rocked by eight violent muggings in recent days of Asian residents of New York’s predominately Spanish Harlem, calls for better police protection are being sounded. Witnesses report a single male has been seen following Asian people entering local housing projects, board elevators where the attacks take place. After brutally beating the victims, mostly women, the thug then robs them. ... read more
West Indians Say No To Occupy Wall Street

West Indians Say No To Occupy Wall Street

NEW YORK - The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, which has been center stage in many of the world media’s stories over the past year, got a jolt yesterday from the organizers of the annual West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. About two dozen OWS members, carrying a large bright yellow banner, became the object of disdain from the parade officials shortly after our photographer took this picture. ... read more
Asian-Americans Make Demands on China

Asian-Americans Make Demands on China

NEW YORK – Demonstrators from the New York Chinese-American community are out in force outside the United Nations building in New York, expressing the view that their homeland in China doesn’t deserve its membership in the UN Security Council because of its political hold on Tibet . Displaying pictures of Tibetans who immolated themselves or otherwise violently protested Chinese rule over Tibet, the protestors charge the level of violence China has enacted in Tibet today is greater than when it hit record levels in 2008. ... read more
NY City Council Probes NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Policy

NY City Council Probes NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Policy

NEW YORK – The New York City Council Civil Rights Committee has started a series of public hearings to investigate the NYPD’s use of stop-and-frisk tactics. Residents appearing before the panel claim the police procedures mostly negatively impact on minority and gay people. ... read more
NYC Students Demand End To Job Bias

NYC Students Demand End To Job Bias

NEW YORK – Students and graduates from the Borough of Manhattan Community College, joined by members of the NY City Council, are demanding an end to credit checks by employees, which they charge unfairly blocks qualified students and recent graduates from needed jobs. ... read more
NYC Protestors Want Assad To Go

NYC Protestors Want Assad To Go

NEW YORK - New Yorkers of Syrian and Iranian descent have added their voices to demonstrations taking place outside United Nations Headquarters in New York. They are demanding the immediate departure of President Bashar al-Assad from Syria and the return of secular rule to the Mideast nation. ... read more
NYC Minority Housing Project Gets Good $$$ News

NYC Minority Housing Project Gets Good $$$ News

NEW YORK - The 4000 mostly minority tenants of the Diego Beekman Houses in New York’s South Bronx are receiving some good news today. That news is taking the form of a new, low interest, 30-year mortgage for $19 million dollars. NYC Comptroller John Liu told reporters the funds came from the NYC Employee Retirement System and the Police Pension Fund. ... read more
BLACKS EYE OBAMA'S JOBS SPEECH

BLACKS EYE OBAMA'S JOBS SPEECH

Ahead of President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, Black California Congresswoman Maxine Water's is putting the pressure on the president to make clear just what it is he plans to do to help the communities suffering the most in this bad economy. In a statement issued today, Waters challenged the president to, "spend as much energy working to create jobs in the black community as he is campaigning for votes in one of the whitest states in the nation." ... read more
Despite Bleak Jobs Market Minorities Still Optimistic

Despite Bleak Jobs Market Minorities Still Optimistic

- Findings from the Blair-Rockefeller Poll challenge long-held assumptions about the impact of the economy on political attitudes and voting behaviors, according to a new report released today by political scientist Todd Shields. The report, “The Economy Across Race and Region: Unemployment Fails to Dampen Positive Outlook Among African Americans ... read more
CA Gov Vetoes Bill Prohibiting

CA Gov Vetoes Bill Prohibiting "English Only"

California Governor Jerry Brown has vetoed SB 111, a language rights bill authored by San Francisco Congressman Leland Yee. According to Yee's office, SB 111 was landmark legislation that would have prohibited businesses from denying service to a patron because of the language he or she speaks. ... read more
Obama Black Approval Hits New Low

Obama Black Approval Hits New Low

President Barack Obama earned the lowest monthly job approval rating of his presidency to date in August, with 41% of U.S. adults approving of his overall job performance, down from 44% in July. He also received term-low monthly job approval ... read more
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