[New York News\Bronx Baseball Clinic]
Stephen Alemais: “I think it’s important to be here at Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club just as something to kind of give back to the kids in the community I grew up in, growing up in the Bronx and Washington Heights.”
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[New York News\Housing Discrimination]
ERASE Racism’s fair housing investigation led to successful litigation resulting in settlements with real estate companies in both Nassau and Suffolk counties. Those property owners and management companies had been showing rental apartments to white applicants and treating Black applicants differently, denying them access to the apartments. When Black individuals and couples inquired about apartments, they were told, among other things, that nothing was available, that there was a long waiting list, that the rent was higher, and that they should check back in the future. When whites inquired, they were shown available apartments and encouraged to apply.
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[Supreme Court News\Comcast Case v. NAAOM]
Senator Harris: “Just one year after the end of the Civil War, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to remove barriers to contracting and Black economic advancement.“It ensured that newly freed slaves enjoyed the same rights as other citizens. This case threatens to limit the effectiveness of our oldest civil rights law and could prevent countless victims– particularly Black people and people of color– from pursuing claims of race discrimination in our courts.
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[African News\Ebola Virus]
Dr. John Nkengasong observed that while the outbreak is now in a good epidemiological pathway as the number of cases is decreasing, there is still a lot of work to be done to bring it completely under control. After that, he said there would be a need to strengthen public health systems in order to enable the AU to respond quickly and effectively to any future outbreaks.
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[Hip-Hop News\Criminal Justice]
In Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America, scholars Erik Nielson and Andrea L. Dennis examine dozens of cases across the country —among the hundreds they have found— in which prosecutors have used the rap lyrics of defendants against them in the courtroom. Whether interpreted as admissions of guilt, evidence of bad character, or threats of future violence, rap has been used in court in ways that would be unthinkable for any other musical genre.
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