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July 23rd, 2013
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The National Council of La Raza conference is well on the way in New Orleans. Comprehensive immigration legislation – its prospects for passage in the current Congress and its effects on millions of Latinos in the United States – will be prominent among topics at a conference drawing an estimated 25,000 to New Orleans. It's the annual conference of the National Council of La...
July 19th, 2013
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The National Low Income Housing Coalition, along with four individual plaintiffs and the NY-based Right to the City Alliance are going after the Federal Housing Finance Agency for failing to fund the National Housing Trust Fund. The suit, filed July 9, names the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Edward DeMarco, for failing to uphold Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s legal...
July 1st, 2013
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Nearly 8,000 Americans have been jailed participating in big-bank related protests aimed at garnering reforms along Wall Street, while no executive from any of the banks once deemed “too big too fail" has so much as undergone a stern cross-examination for all the widespread Bush-Recession-era fraud perpetuated by those institutions. These banks committed fraud against large numbers of minorities...
June 26th, 2013
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The National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters wonders why the hundreds of millions of dollars the federal government spends on advertising lost its way to African-American broadcasting stations. "Of these expenditures, black-owned broadcast stations, and networks receive a very small share," said NABOB Executive Director, Jim Winston. "Many black-owned broadcasting stations receive no...
June 20th, 2013
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Lineeka Oliveras, African-American, and her husband Tony, Hispanic, postponed creating an estate plan to cover the immediate needs of their four children. “After our second child, I really started thinking about what would happen if something happened to both of us, says full-time student, Lineeka Oliveras. “I’m diabetic and my husband has certain stuff going on. We have illnesses that could be...

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