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Children Living With Hunger in North Carolina

(NNPA) – One in four children live on the brink of hunger in North Carolina. Three and a half million children in America, ages five and under, are food insecure. These are just some of the statistics recently released in

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Report Shows Need for Tougher Hate Crime Laws

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Wade Henderson, the executive director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Michael Lieberman, Washington counsel of the Anti-Defamation League, said hate crime is becoming a serious problem that needs to be dealt with as

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New Report Details Experience of Minority Women in the Subprime Lending Market and Disparate Treatment by Race

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Ninety years after the passage of the 19th amendment by Congress, a new report for the National Council of Negro Women researched by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) shows that African-American and Latino women continue to

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Stimulus Dollars Lift Hopes for Teen Jobs This Summer

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As summer heats up and yields thousands of unemployed teenagers anxious for a break from school and looking for something to do, Black leaders and state governments are hoping that President Obama’s investment in youth initiatives will

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Wilmington Attorney Challenges Bar Association and Country Club

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Two years after the construction of the Cape Fear Country Club, Wilmington suffered the infamous race riot/massacre of 1898. Recently, over a century later, Attorney Peter Grear refused to attend an event held there by the New

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Summer School Cancellation Stirs Deep Concern in South L.A.

LOS ANGELES (NNPA) – More than 225,000 Los Angeles Unified School District families with elementary and middle school students will be forced to find alternatives to summer school this year, following an announcement that the session would be canceled due

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Low Income Chicago Children Facing Barriers to Pre-School

CHICAGO (NNPA) – Three years after former Gov. Rod Blagojevich launched a bold initiative to provide universal pre-school for all 3-and 4-year-olds, a new report shows that children in low-to-moderate income communities are still falling through the cracks. In 2006,

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New CBC Report May Give Peek at Presidentís Black Agenda

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A bi-annual report released last week by the Congressional Black Caucus may give a sneak peek at President Barack Obama’s agenda for Black America.  “We have a very forward-thinking, progressive, bold agenda and that’s what we’re working

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To the Rescue: National Urban League Bringing Empowerment Fair to Dallas

DALLAS (NNPA) – They don’t pretend to be superheroes. Yet the National Urban League, in conjunction with the Urban League of Greater Dallas and North Central Texas, are determined to come to the rescue for possibly thousands of North Texas

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Team Hits Jackpot in National Business Plan Competitions

Even in a downturned economy, four students in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas have turned an idea for a test using a woman’s tears for breast cancer into more than $85,000. Mentored by

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