[Africa Sports]
Uganda track star Shida Leni won a Silver Medal at World University Games in Italy last night.
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CRUSADING JOURNALIST GWANDA IS DEAD, TOP TANZANIAN OFFICIAL TELLS BBC
[Africa News]
Committee To protect Journalists (CPJ) is disturbed by Tanzanian foreign minister Palamagamba Kabudi’s statement that journalist Azory Gwanda has “disappeared and died.” Gwanda has been missing since November 21, 2017…
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SECRETARY OF EDUCATION BETSY DEVOS SUED OVER NATIONAL STUDENT DEBT DEBACLE
[Education News]
AFT President Randi Weingarten: “Public Service Loan Forgiveness is a right, but Betsy DeVos has turned it into a crapshoot.”
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EVELYN DEJESUS BECOMES FIRST LATINA ELECTED TO UPPER LEADERSHIP OF UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS
[Education News]
Evelyn DeJesus: “I am honored to represent the members of this union—their hopes, their aspirations and the incredible work they do every day to make people’s lives better in their communities. I am energized and ready.”
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NEW YORK ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES FILES BRIEF DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS OF DETAINED IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
[Immigration News]
Attorney General James: “The Trump Administration’s immoral actions have stripped children of basic human needs…We are calling on the court to take immediate action to ensure these children receive the basic care they should have been provided from day one.”
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BRONX BOROUGH PRESIDENT DIAZ JR. TESTIFIES AGAINST MAYOR DE BLASIO’S MOTT HAVEN JAIL PLAN
[Bronx Borough News]
Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.: “How can we be asked to approve a jail in our community when the administration itself admits it doesn’t know what it will really look like?”
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“CLOSE RIKERS” GROUP PUSHES FOR REINVESTMENT OF JAIL FUNDING AND “DECARCERATION” OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES
[Mass Incarceration News]
#CLOSErikers Campaign Coordinator Brandon Holmes: “The #CLOSErikers campaign is proud that people directly impacted by the horror of Rikers Island have made closing Rikers an attainable reality after decades of work.”
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TRUMP’S RACE-BAITING IMMIGRATION POLICIES HAVE CREATED A HUMAN RIGHTS CRISIS OF EPIC PROPORTIONS
[Immigration News]
Douglas Rivlin: “We’re in the midst of a full-blown human rights crisis manufactured by the Trump Administration’s cruel, hardline policy choices that continue to produce more and more inhumanity and utter failure at addressing the refugee crisis.”
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STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS DENOUNCE HUD’S PROPOSED ASSISTANCE DENIAL TO FAMILY MEMBERS HOUSING UNDOCUMENTED
[Immigration News]
Attorney General James: “If this rule is enacted the Trump Administration will once again be tearing families apart, and this time, it won’t be at the border, but in our communities.”
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Trump Plans Deportations While Denying Meeting With Undocumented Immigrants Who Allegedly Worked For Him
[Immigration News]
“Trump Plans Deportations While Denying Meeting With Undocumented Immigrants Who Allegedly Worked For Him.”
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