[Albany News]
New York Senate Majority Leader: “Dark money routinely pours in to control public opinion, misinform voters, and benefit special interests.”
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Black Star News
New Poll: Most Americans Across Party Lines Against Trump’s Racist Treatment Of Immigrants
[Immigration News]
America’s Voices’ Douglas Rivlin: “the American people are remarkably united around real solutions to address the humanitarian and refugee crisis – and the larger vision for immigrants in America.”
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What Is The 4th Of July To Victims Of Oppression—Frederick Douglass Spoke Truth To Power
[Remembering Frederick Douglas]
Frederick Douglass: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.”
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Essence 25th Anniversary Festival Bridging Connectivity, Technology And Culture Will Feature Keynote Speeches From 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates
[Essence 25th Festival News]
25 Essence Anniversary Festival runs from July 5-8 In New Orleans and will have keynote speeches by 2020 Candidates Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg & Beto O’Rourke…
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Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights “Pleased” Justice Department Will Print 2020 Census Questionnaire Without Bigoted Citizen Question
[Census News]
Lawyers’ Committee: “We are pleased that the Justice Department is moving forward with printing the 2020 Census questionnaire without a citizenship question.”
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Immigration Lobby Group Launches DACA “Renewals Now” Campaign To Increase Resources And Support For Dreamers
[Immigration News]
Katie Aragon:DACA “Renewals Now Campaign will provide vital educational resources and funding to help provide a little more peace of mind to Dreamers.”
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NEW REPORT: NEXT PRESIDENT MUST IMPLEMENT “EXPLICIT RACE EQUITY” MEASURES TO ERADICATE RACIAL INEQUITIES IN EDUCATION
[Education News]
Center For American Progress says if next president wants to make education work for “all America’s children” they must confront racial inequities…
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NEW YORK STATE SENATOR JAMES SANDERS PRESENTS YOUTH AWARDS AND NYSABPRL SCHOLARSHIPS TO DESERVING BLACK AND MINORITY STUDENTS
[Education News]
New York State Senator James Sanders gives Leadership Awards and scholarships to deserving Black and inority students…
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NEW REPORT: MORTGAGE LENDERS DISCRIMINATE AGAINST AFRICAN AMERICANS AND PUSH US TOWARD HIGH RISK AND SUB-PRIME LOANS
[Housing Discrimination News]
Report finds that: “African-American and Hispanic home buyers are respectively 105% and 78% more likely to use high-cost mortgages for home purchases, putting them at greater risk of foreclosure.”
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Apollo Theater Announces Author Ta-Nehisi Coates As Inaugural Artist-In-Residence To Coincide With His “The Water Dancer” Book Tour
[Apollo Theater News]
Acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will become the Apollo Theater’s first artist-in-residence this September as he launches his “The Water Dancer” book tour…
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