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ENTERTAINER OBBA BABATUNDÉ RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FROM JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS AND LEARNING

[Entertainment News\ Movies\Music]
Obba Babatundé, the multi-talented and highly celebrated, award-winning entertainer is a Broadway, film and television star, whose career spans more than four decades grew up in the diverse community of Queens. He is the recipient of numerous awards including a daytime Emmy for his role in CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, was nominated for a Tony for his role in the original Broadway cast of Dreamgirls, is a Critic’s Circle Awards-winner for the musical Sammy, and the recipient of an NAACP Image Award for A Soldier’s Play.
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NEW YORK STATE SENATOR PARKER INTRODUCES LEGISLATION TO ALLOW VOTING RIGHTS TO INCARCERATED NEW YORKERS

[Mass Incarceration\Voting Rights]
NY State Senator Kevin Parker: “When Senate Democrats were in the majority in 2010 we enacted fair, common-sense laws to have people in prison counted at their home addresses when redrawing state and local district lines. Today, my legislation builds upon this and the promise of equal protection and our democracy’s linchpin of one-person one-vote…As a professor of African-American Studies, I know all too well the horrid evolution of Black people in America: from the Transatlantic journey to the sharecropper; from the Black Codes to the mass incarceration and hyper-policing of communities of color.
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