July 2017 Archive
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League It was clear from the moment it was announced that the federal “Election Integrity Commission” was nothing more than a vehicle for voter ... Murdering justice
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor As the nation, city of Baton Rouge, justice advocates and the family of Alton Sterling marked the one-year anniversary of the tragic, officer-involved shooting that claimed the ... Job Announcement: Underwriting Sales Manager
Position: UNDERWRITING SALES MANAGER Company: WWOZ 90.7 FM Deadline: JULY 20, 2017 WWOZ 90.7 – one of the nation’s most vibrant radio stations, seeks an energetic, experienced professional to be our Underwriting Sales ... Job Announcement: Director of Development
Position: DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Company: WWOZ 90.7 FM Deadline: JULY 20, 2017 WWOZ 90.7 FM seeks a seasoned, dynamic, hands-on Director of Development to lead the fundraising efforts of one of the nation’s ... More than 100 federal agencies fail to report hate crimes to the FBI’s national database
By A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke ProPublica In violation of a longstanding legal mandate, scores of federal law enforcement agencies are failing to submit statistics to the FBI’s national hate crimes database, ... Key NOPD commander transferred amid internal probe of his contact with recruits
Lt. Carlton Lewis, the NOPD commander who heads the department’s Recruitment and Applicant Investigation Division, was recently reassigned to regular field duties in the NOPD’s Fifth District in the midst ... Google and the Equal Justice Initiative launch website about the lynching of African Americans
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) — The Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery, Ala.-based nonprofit organization that challenges poverty and racial injustice, has launched in partnership with Google ... The GOP Health Bill—How we got into this mess
By Paul Kleyman Contributing Writer (New America Media) — Amid all of the scoreboard coverage of the Republicans’ American Health Care Act (AHCA)—they have the Senate votes, they don’t have the votes, ... White House proposes $9.2B cut in Education funding
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — No one ever said that higher education wouldn’t cost money. Across the country, tuition is steadily rising and students are taking longer to pay ... $3 million settlement paid in cop killing of Philando Castile
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) — The city of St. Anthony, Minn., has agreed to pay nearly $3 million to the mother of Philando Castile, a registered ...
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