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Letter To De Blasio: Transforming Former Bronx Homeless Site To Permanent...
[Letter To The Mayor]Dear Mayor de Blasio:I write to discuss the recent media availability your office hosted earlier this month regarding a homeless encampment, located at St. Ann’s Avenue and East...
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Bernie Sanders Would Seek Supremo Judges To Overturn Citizens United
Bernie Sanders[Elections 2016]Speaking at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics on Monday, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told students that a handful of billionaires should not be...
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Donald Trump's Operation Wetback Vision
Trump[Elections 2016]Donald Trump has mostly avoided answering any questions about how he would deport 11 million immigrants from the US. We tried to explain his plan in detail here. But he’s recently...
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Resources and mindfulness in the life of nonprofits
Part two of a three-part seriesFundraising is fundraising, or is it? We asked Lisa Hoffman about her observations related to the similarities and differences between large, established nonprofits and...
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As A Church Minister Why I Stand with Planned Parenthood
[Commentary]I hold strongly to the values that life is sacred and good, and that in circumstances when conflicting realities are present, each of us has a God-given moral responsibility to make...
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Bluewash: Monitoring Groups Decry New NYPD Policy Without Accountability For...
Police Commissioner Bratton -- trying to be slick by pre-empting critical report?[New York City]Independent activists groups reacted with skepticism saying without informing the public about how and...
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Roseburg Massacre: Obama On "How Easy It Is" For Domestic U.S. Gun Terrorism
A President Asks How Many More Massacres Must America Endure?There’s been another mass shooting in America -- this time, in a community college in Oregon.That means there are more American families --...
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From South Central to South Africa and back again...
After visiting South Africa for the first time this month, I have come back believing the trip is one of the most important for African Americans to make in their lifetime. Before Europe, Asia or any...
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Q and A With Alex Perry Author of "THE RIFT -- A New Africa Breaks Free"
[Books]Q: When we think of celebrities and aid groups like the United Nations donating millions of dollars to countries in Africa, we don’t think of this as harmful. Can you explain how sometimes even...
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De Blasio Breast Crises: Times Square Bare-Chested Women Leads To Much City...
The price of semi-nudity: a Mayoral reportThe Following press release was issued by Mayor Bill de Blasio is reaction to the women who a few weeks ago started posing for photographs with bare breasts on...
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Ford Foundation's New Outlook: Breaking the scourge of inequality
Darren Walker[Global Development: Commentary]As I begin my third year at the Ford Foundation’s helm, I am reminded of how privileged I am—and we all are—to serve this institution.For my colleagues and...
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Follow California's Lead: Extend Healthcare Coverage To All Undocumented...
Marian Wright Edelman Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey show the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is working and helping get people health coverage. This is a...
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Arne Duncan Did More Than Anyone Else To Bring U.S. Education Into 21st...
President Obama and Duncan[Education]Arne Duncan is one of my longest-serving Cabinet Secretaries, and he’s been a friend for a lot longer than that. So it’s with some regret and sorrow that I’ve...
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When Collective Presidency Is Appropriate: A Case For Uganda
Uganda's dictator Gen. Museveni -- in power for 30 years; longer than all the Soviet dictatorsFrom time immemorial there are moments of crisis politically, economically or socially that make governing...
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what can we abolish in america?
You may want to write this down because I don’t say it very often. Perhaps we should follow the shining example of the Republican Party in one very significant way. The Grand Old Party – formerly known...
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NYC: Mayor De Blasio's Press Update On Gas Explosion That Killed One,...
Explosion ripped front part of buildingMayor de Blasio: Obviously a very tough day here in Borough Park. It is [inaudible]. It is the Sabbath day in Borough Park. This is a community I know well, and I...
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Bunk: The Washington Post’s Attack on Bernie Sanders
Sanders--attacks mean he's doing something right[Elections 2016: Commentary]The Washington Post just ran an attack on Bernie Sanders that distorts not only what he’s saying and seeking but also the...
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With INA's 50th Anniversary U.S. Deserves 21st Century Comprehensive...
Fifty years ago, at the foot of the Statute of Liberty, President Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).The new, bipartisan law ended an unfair quota system, prohibited...
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Gennady Golovkin Vs. David Lemieux: You'd Be Crazy To Miss This Fight
Will hard-hitters Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux come out swinging?[BoxingGlove Notes]After the heavily promoted but very disappointing “Fight of the Century” between now retired, Floyd “Money”...
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NYC Construction Industry's Shame: Black Workers Earn $5.74 Less Hourly Than...
20 years after Dinkins' report construction industry still discriminates against ethnic minorities NYC's Construction Unions Have a Diversity Problem at the Top New York City’s construction unions can...
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