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Accurate Census Data on Children Critical to Billions in Federal Funding and Community Planning
WASHINGTON, DC– The U.S. Census Bureau today launched a “Children Count Too” public awareness campaign reminding parents to include babies and young children on their 2010 Census forms. Most of the nation’s 120 million households will begin receiving census questionnaires by mail [...]
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PITTSBURGH, PA — The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work and the Center on Race and Social Problems will host “Race in America” — designed to be the most solution-focused conference on race ever held — on the University’s Pittsburgh campus June 3-6.
Seven key areas will be explored during “Race in America”: economics, education, [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC– According to the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2010 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures, African-Americans are two times more likely than their white counterparts to have Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Hispanics are one and one-half times more likely than whites to have Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Although whites make up the great majority of the more [...]
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The 2010 Sleep in America poll released by the National Sleep
Foundation (NSF) reveals significant differences in the sleep habits
and attitudes of Asians, Blacks/African-Americans, Hispanics and
Whites. It is the first poll to examine sleep among these four ethnic
groups.
NSF’s Sleep in America poll found that more than three-fourths of
respondents from each ethnic group agree that poor sleep [...]
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MIAMI, FL – According to projections from the United States Census Bureau, people with skin of color will comprise approximately half of the U.S. population by 2050. This group, which includes African-Americans, Asians, Latinos and other ethnicities, are more prone to certain dermatologic problems than those with lighter skin tones due to their genetic make-up [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC - The Justice Department will monitor several primary elections tomorrow in Fort Bend, Galveston, Gonzales, Williamson and Wilson Counties in Texas, to ensure compliance with the minority language requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes. The Voting Rights Act requires these covered jurisdictions to provide language [...]
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ISELIN, N.J.– The Siemens Foundation announced the winners of the 2010 Siemens Teacher Scholarship today in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The CSR program from Siemens provides scholarships to students enrolled in the nation’s public and private Historically Black Colleges and Universities who are pursuing teaching careers in science, technology, engineering or [...]
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SANTA CRUZ, CA – Two of the country’s preeminent scientific societies have agreed to collaborate on initiatives to advance underrepresented minorities in science, specifically in the field of chemistry.
SACNAS, a national society advancing Hispanics/Chicanos and Native Americans in science, and the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society, plan to use their combined [...]
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J.– The NACCP has launched the NAACP Interactive Historical Timeline, a multimedia website that tells the story of the 101-year-old civil rights organization through words, pictures and video and narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne and other celebrities.
The Web site, www.naacphistory.org, was funded through a $500,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic [...]
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In honor of Black History Month, PRSA is spotlighting the role of African-American scholars and practitioners in advancing the public relations profession.
PRSA has invited prominent leaders in the public relations profession to offer their views on race and public relations and their ideas for achieving greater racial and ethnic diversity in the industry. Wilma Ruth [...]
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The American Principles Project will announce the launch of a new initiative to recruit Latinos and to open the conservative movement to greater Latino participation and leadership.
The project plans to address the issues of comprehensive immigration reform, outreach to Latino community, in reach to conservative movement, as well as significant political investment in 2010 races.
The [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC - The Justice Department announced a settlement of a lawsuit against Riverside County, Calif., alleging violations of the rights of Spanish-speaking voters under the Voting Rights Act.
“The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy, and language barriers should never keep citizens from accessing that right,” said Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General in [...]
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ROANOKE, Va.– U.S. Cellular has teamed up with the Boys and Girls Club of Southwest Virginia to honor the contributions of African Americans and encourage creativity among young people. The 3rd Annual Black History Art Competition invites Boys & Girls Club members to select an influential African American and develop his or her likeness into [...]
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC – Diversity is taking on new meaning in Corporate America as globalization changes the business landscape and forces companies to leverage their diversity. That was the message diversity executives from IBM, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart and Hewitt Associates delivered Friday at a lecture at Wake Forest University Schools of Business.
“Celebrating and understanding differences is no [...]
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DALLAS, TX — The largest state Baptist group in the United States wants Jesus Christ’s message of hope heard in every home in Texas — all 9 million of them — within the next two months.
That is a challenge in a state as big and diverse as Texas, where more than a third of households [...]
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Verizon Wireless is calling for entries in their Lunar New Year Essay Contest, part of their CSR campaign celebrating the festivities for the Year of the Tiger in the Asian-American community throughout California and Seattle.
Eligible students must write a 500-word essay answering two questions:
1) What does Lunar New Year mean to [...]
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ANN ARBOR, MICH.– The number of underrepresented minorities among U.S. medical school faculty and practitioners still remains markedly low when compared with U.S. population, despite initiatives and the increasing diversity in U.S., U-M researchers say.
Moreover, the level of underrepresented minorities currently being trained in medicine is unlikely to reverse those trends, according to a U-M analysis and [...]
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The U.S. is subject to powerful cultural forces rooted in demographics and ethnicity. Nowhere is the influence of these cultural crosswinds more evident today than in our growing Hispanic population and its increasing claim on a share of the American Dream. By the numbers, Latinos are the dominant minority group in the nation, totaling more [...]
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WASHINGTON — Fundacion Azteca America is joining forces with the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) for a targeted 2010 Census push that includes the distribution of 40,000 bilingual educational leaflets in Washington DC, San Antonio and Los Angeles.
“We’re coming down to the final stretch of the 2010 Census activities and we want to continue to [...]
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WASHINGTON, DC – The Census Bureau has released a comprehensive list of key Black History Month facts and figures that are helpful to multicultural PR marketers.
Background to Black History Month
To commemorate and celebrate the contributions to our nation made by people of African descent, American historian Carter G. Woodson established Black History Week. The first [...]
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NORWALK, CT – Diageo has been named a leading diversity employer and will be featured in the 2009 ‘Best of the Best’ Annual Review Series by Olive Tree Publishing, Inc., publishers of the Black EOE Journal, Hispanic Network Magazine, and Professional Woman’s Magazine. The annual evaluation, now in its 18th year, sets the standard for [...]
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Donald A. Coleman, Chairman of GlobalHue, a minority-owned, full-service marketing communications agency, announced the Coleman Entrepreneurial Scholarship (CES) program. In its second year, the program provides scholarships to deserving African-American and
Hispanic college students majoring or concentrating in entrepreneurship.
CES was established as a testament to the importance of education,
especially amongst ethnic youth in [...]
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Washington D.C. – After looking through the findings from The Immigration Policy Center’s continuing series of reports analyzing the economic benefits of immigration in various states, there is no denying the contributions immigrants, Latinos, and Asians make in Texas and the important role they will play in the state’s political and economic future.
The compiled research shows [...]
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