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Over 50 NYC Rabbis Support Police Reform Legislation
Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu joins 52 others in backing police-reform billFifty-three rabbis who live and work in New York City signed a letter to the New York City Council calling on them to to immediately...
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Why Most Young Americans Abhor Politics
Lee HamiltonI spend a fair amount of time talking to students and other young people about Congress and politics in general, and I’ve noticed something. It used to be that I’d regularly get asked how...
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Mayor De Blasio And Commissioner Bratton Announce Crime-Reduction Strategy
Mayor De Blasio and Commissioner Bratton330 additional officers will boost patrols in 10 targeted precincts, 4 targeted police service areas Mayor de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bratton have announced...
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RWANDA: OPPOSITION APPLAUDS US DECISION NOT TO SUPPORT THIRD TERM FOR KAGAME
On 6.04.2015, Rodney D. Ford, spokesman for the US State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, told this reporter that the US will support neither a Rwandan constitutional amendment to abolish term...
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United: Uganda Opposition Announce Historic Alliance To Oust Gen. Museveni In...
The Democratic Alliance-- From left to right: Gilbert Bukenya -- former Vice President; Ken Lukyamuzi -- CP (President); Muhammad Kezala -- DP (National Chairperson); Mugisha Muntu -- FDC (President);...
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Mayor Bill De Blasio You're Reading The Wrong Polls: Ignore Black Voters At...
De Blasio with Bratton, his police commissioner and one-time Giuliani'sMayor Bill De Blasio is reading the wrong polls and if he doesn't change his course he will indeed be a one-term mayor.If he's...
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The The Afro-Cuban Experience on Film: Last Rumba of Papa Montero and Other...
www.AfricanDiasporaDVD.comCuba is in the news again. After more than 50 years of hostile interaction the United States and Cuba are poised to open embassies in Havana and Washington D.C.Today, the...
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"For the Last Time" is a Must See
“For the Last Time” is being presented at the Clurman Theater located at 410 West 42nd Street in Manhattan. Touted as a jazz musical, the play tells a bitter sweet story of four people who are forced...
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How a Ugandan grandmother fought the President for her community's land -...
Keromela Anek sits with some of her neighbors in Apaa. Photo: Phil Wilmot A new tactic of non-violent resistance secured a future for the people of Apaa, Uganda, after a violent government-backed land...
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National Finalists for White House Fellows Program Announced
Finalist-- La’Shanda Holmes, Lieutenant, United States Coast GuardThe President’s Commission on White House Fellowships announced today the National Finalists for the 2015-2016 White House Fellowship....
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National Crisis: National Black Teen Unemployment At 30%
Marc Morial[The Economy]I can still remember my very first job—and the valuable lessons I learned from it that continue to inform my career to this day.I got my first taste of entrepreneurship as...
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An Open Letter to Free Radicals
The term “free radicals” means different things in different venues. Biochemically, free radicals refers to a group of atoms which have at least one unpaired electron and is therefore unstable and...
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Texas Cop's Child Abuse Highlights Police Prejudice Against African-Americans
The face of hate--violent nutcase Eric CaseboltFor nearly a year now, since the killing of Michael Brown, in Missouri; and Eric Garner, in Staten Island; weve witnessed repeated incidents of police...
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Excuses: the scourge of nonprofit fundraising
How do we stop using excuses as a conversation starter, or icebreaker when starting a meeting? We all know people who start conversations by making excuses for why they are late, unprepared, and...
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HARLEM: IMAGENATION'S OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL AND FUNDRAISER FOR BOUTIQUE CINEMA
Odenigbo (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Olana (Thandie Newton) in "Half of a Yellow Sun" which will be screenedThe 13th annual ImageNation Outdoors Festival will kick off June 21, 2015 continuing through...
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FORMER SNLer & FUNNY COMEDIAN COLIN QUINN TALKS RACE RELATIONS IN NEW BOOK
Comedian Colin Quinn. Photograph provided by Keith Sherman & AssociatesColin Quinn is no stranger when it comes to the topic of race in America. According to his new book, "The Coloring Book: A...
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Serpentine: the GOP's Shady Primary Practices
What do you get when add Reince Priebus, the Republican National Convention, the Fox News Channel, CNN, the 2016 Republican presidential candidates’ debates and all rules therein, all national polls on...
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Enough is Enough: Police Reform Now
It seems as if every week a new video surfaces online showcasing another act of excessive force used against black Americans, angering, horrifying, and shocking viewers throughout the nation and all...
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Mbabazi, Dictator Museveni’s Former Premier, Calls For “Democracy” In...
Mbabazi was sacked as prime minister by Gen. Museveni last year[Africa: Uganda]Statement issued by Mr. Amama Mbabazi Uganda’s former prime minister.My fellow Ugandans,I greet you wherever you are. It...
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CRAIGSLIST AD SHOWS RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL—"PLEASE NO BLACK PEOPLE"
An ad posted on Craigslist has created quite a buzz for itself—and it is not good. The ad posted over a week ago clearly states that Black people are still unwanted in certain areas around the nation....
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