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Russell Means, Gone But Not Forgotten {Argus Leader}
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Russell Means, Gone But Not Forgotten Native American activist Russell Means, who gained national attention as a leader in the American Indian Movement and rode that wave into acting and politics, died Monday at his ranch in Porcupine on the Pine Ridge reservation. The 72-year-old Oglala was diagnosed in August 2011 with inoperable esophageal cancer [...]
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant {NYTimes}
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. (“It might be cold there.”) When I arrived at the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport with her, [...]
Study Shows Minorities Less Likely to Win Grants, Scholarships {Freakonomics}
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Study Shows Minorities Less Likely to Win Grants, Scholarships A short paper recently released by Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Fastweb.com and FinAid.org, is shaking up the discussion of race and financial aid — specifically, Kantrowitz writes that white students are disproportionately more likely to receive financial aid than their minority counterparts. Kantrowitz’s intro reads as [...]
U.S. Census Proposes More Changes to Race Categories {Huff Post}
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U.S. Census Proposes More Changes to Race Categories WASHINGTON — To keep pace with rapidly changing notions of race, the Census Bureau wants to make broad changes to its surveys that would treat “Hispanic” as a distinct category regardless of race, end use of the term “Negro” and offer new ways to identify Middle Easterners. [...]
Michelle Obama Reflects on the Last Four Years {BlogHer}
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Our fabulous First Lady, Michelle Obama, recaps the last four years and share her hopes for the next four on BlogHer.com. Check out what she had to say… Four Years Later {Michelle’s Take via @BlogHer} Exactly four years ago today, I wrote my first post for BlogHer. In that first column, I wrote about the kind [...]
Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion in Taxes in 2010!
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Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 BILLION As many of us who participating in the immigration debate already knew, undocumented immigrants contribute a lot to this country. In 2010, they contributed approximately $11.2 billion dollars, despite the fact that most Americans believe their being undocumented prevents them from paying into the system. The point is, the majority of Americans [...]
Mixed Match Film: An Important Cause for Mixed Race Families
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Finding a Mixed Race Bone Marrow Match For multiracial families, finding a bone marrow match is often a trying experience. Bone marrow donors are in limited supply and the difficulty of finding a match multiplies when you’re a mixed race individual. One of the biggest problems with finding donors is the fact that people [...]
MyDreamCatcher.com Launches Multicultural Web Portal to Help You Build Your Dreams
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MyDreamCatcher.com Encourages Users To Share Their Dreams And Aspirations By Building Their Own Personalized Web Portal in English and Spanish NEW YORK, March 9, 2012 – Oneida Nation Enterprises CEO and Oneida NationRepresentative, Ray Halbritter, announced the launch of a dynamic multi-cultural business, consisting of the MyDreamCatcher aggregated advertising network, a one-stop shop for multi-cultural media buyers targeting audiences by [...]
Introducing Plaza Familia, the first national, bilingual multi-platform magazine for Hispanics
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release) - Mar 02, 2012 - NEW YORK, NY — At a time where the publishing industry is evolving, educational publisher and developer Premier Transmedia, has responded to the needs of the diverse Hispanic community by launching Plaza Familia, the first bilingual family magazine in the US created by Latinos, for Latinos.With an [...]
Diversity on Demand Initiative Expands Multicultural Programming
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Discover Diversity Programming Via Facebook & Win Prizes! Throughout February, digital cable customers will have access to a variety of films and resources about Black history and culture as part of cable’s Diversity On Demand initiative. Diversity On Demand, which kicked off February 1, will focus on Black History Month and wrap up following Hispanic Heritage Month [...]
Chicago Student Threatened with Noose, Victim of Hate Crime
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Image: ChicagoTribune.com Reading the Tribune online version this morning I came across the following headline… 3 teens charged with hate-crime racial attack …with the sub-heading: “White teens put noose around black teen’s neck.” I began reading the article and, it turns out that, this alleged incident occurred on December 23, 2011, charges were filed on January [...]
