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More New Yorkers Have Coverage But Uninsured Still Nears Million -- Scott...
Nearly a quarter of Sunnyside, Jackson Heights, Corona and Bushwick residents are uninsuredMore than one in ten New York City residents lack health insurance, and in pockets of Queens and Brooklyn the...
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Jacqueline Berrien Fought For Equal Opportunity For All -- Obama
Jacqueline BerrienMichelle and I were saddened to learn of the passing of Jacqueline Berrien, former Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.Jackie’s leadership and passion for ensuring...
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“FATIGUE AND APATHY” IN UGANDA 2016 POLLS: MUSEVENI MAY SCOOP “ANOTHER RAP”...
Mr. “FEATURE PRESIDENT” is too young to vote in 2016 Ugandan elections, but is old enough to be recruited into Museveni’s the million militia known simply as “Crime Preventers”. Is this rigging...
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University of Missouri Student Power and Black Lives Matter! -- Timothy M....
Student powerIn recent months African Americans students had complained about racism on the campuses of the University of Missouri including an incident where a swastika was drawn in human feces in a...
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Right-Wing Media Bemoan University Of Missouri President's Resignation: His...
Ousted President WolfeRight-wing media sharply criticized the resignation of University of Missouri President Timothy M. Wolfe after a wave of protests over racial tensions erupted on the university's...
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Nov 19: The Green Business Summit (GBS)
Diversity and the Green Business Summit The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing our individual...
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Writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o At Re-opening of Revolution Books in Harlem Nov 15
Special Guest: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’oSunday, November 15, 2015, 2pm and 6:30Revolution Books, 437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd Street (#2/3/A/B/C to 135th stations) Revolution Books, formerly in...
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With $15 Minimum Wage We Won't Be Subsidizing McDonald's Anymore -- Gov. Cuomo
CuomoLet’s hear it for George Gresham and 1199 – our brother in progressive politics in New York. To Mary Kay Henry, SEIU, that has organized all across the country today, 270 cities in the fight for...
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CLIMATE CONFAB WILL BE ‘A WALKOVER FOR POLLUTERS,’ NIGERIAN ACTIVISTS WARN
Nov. 9 (GIN) – The upcoming climate talks in Paris - opening Nov. 30 - are already firing up climate activists who fear it will do little to avert climate disaster.Nigerian environmentalist Nnimmo...
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WORLD SCRABBLE TITLE SCOOPED BY NIGERIAN IN FIRST FOR AFRICA
Nov. 9 (GIN) – No one disputes the enormous gifts that Africans bring to the global table. But scrabble?In fact, a Nigerian college graduate is just the latest African winner of the brainiac’s board...
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JUBILATION IN FREETOWN AS SIERRA LEONE DECLARED EBOLA-FREE
Nov. 9 (GIN) – It came in with a bat, wreaked havoc throughout the West African nation of Sierra Leone, but finally, two years since the outbreak, Ebola is on its way to becoming a distant memory.At a...
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#GivingTuesday
Have you heard of Giving Tuesday? Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks for the blessings in our lives. Black Friday and Cyber Monday kick off the holiday shopping season. Then there’s Giving Tuesday...
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Why The U.S. Federal Debt Ceiling Must Be Permanently Abolished
President Obama -- managed to get government agencies funded until 2017You can understand why President Obama and congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle sought to cast their end-of-October...
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Uganda: Gen. Museveni's and NRM's 30 Years of Failure And Why Opposition Must...
Gen. Museveni -- after failing to produce needles for Uganda in 30 years he wants to extend his ruleThe campaign began full swing on November 9, 2015, to elect the next president of Uganda. The...
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Only 5% of African American Households Have More than $350,000 in Net Worth
From EurwebNearly 10% of white households, totaling over 8 million families have more than 1.3 million in net worth. *A recent study by the Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finaces released a...
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Black Children Not Intellectually Inferior: My Own Children's Success Offers...
[Support Intellectual Creativity]In 2004 a High Achievers article was done on some of my children. Eleven years later, they still prove that Blacks can succeed. For example, on Saturday November...
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Only Justice Sotomayor Willing To Protect Civilians From Police Brutality
With respect to incidents of Police Brutality across the country -- with the exception of Justice Sonia Sotomayor the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that police are above the law and that's that.All...
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Hearing Tonight: Bronx Opposes Mayor De Blasio's Zoning Changes -- Borough...
Ruben Diaz, JrTonight, my office will host its hearing on Mayor de Blasio’s proposed zoning changes, known respectively as "Zoning for Quality & Affordability" and "Mandatory Inclusionary...
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Brooklyn: Long Sentences For Youth In Violent Rape And Robbery
DA ThompsonA Brooklyn gang member was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a violent armed home invasion in which he and three others broke into a Brooklyn apartment, robbed two roommates at knife- and...
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The U.S. Can Have Both Economic Growth And Diminishing Inequality
Dr. Spriggs. Photo: Black Enterprise[Op-Ed]The world’s mainstream consensus has become that inequality is a problem facing nations, from the think tank of the advanced democracies—the Organization for...
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