Redistricting Promotes Latino Voting Rights oday the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) released a new online guide for lawyers seeking to preserve and promote Latino voting rights during the 2011 redistricting cycle. The resource, the HNBA Guide to Redistricting: Preserving and Promoting Latino Voting Rights Under Section 2 and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, provides a step-by-step tutorial for assessing Latino voting r |
Men’s Wearhouse helps unemployed with free suits For the fourth year, Men’s Wearhouse has held a successful National Suit Drive, the country’s largest collection of gently used professional attire. The company devoted the month of August to encouraging patrons to transform their unwanted businesswear into a second chance for millions of disadvantaged Americans facing joblessness. Despite recent job increases in select industrie |
During its national tour, the Hyundai Tucson FCEV will stop at hospitals across the country, collecting colorful handprints from childhood cancer patients and survivors along the way. By the end of September, the vehicle will have collected hundreds of handprints from children around the country, each representing a personal story about a child's battle with this deadly disease. After its k |
AmeriCares Building a Field Hospital for Somalis AmeriCares is building and equipping a field hospital for the thousands of refugees fleeing the devastating famine in Somalia. Tens of thousands have already died and officials say 12.4 million people in the Horn of Africa need immediate humanitarian relief from the worst drought in more than a half century. The 4,500-square-foot AmeriCares field hospital will house a therapeutic feedi |
British Airways Provides East Africa Relief Flight British Airways has flown a relief aircraft full of emergency supplies and equipment to victims of the food crisis in East Africa, where over half a million people are directly at risk of starvation. A Boeing 747 freighter with capacity for up to 110 tonnes of cargo, flew to Ethiopia on Friday, August 12, carrying aid from Oxfam and UNICEF. Following severe droughts, resulting in the w |
According to a USDA study to be published in the September 15 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, a diet rich in blueberry extract reversed some loss of balance and coordination, and improved short-term memory in aging rats. Ranked #1 among fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables in antioxidant power, blueberries are being studied more closely by researchers for their documented |
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WTF Wendy Raquel Williams looking like 70's crack head Although Wendy Raquel Williams is a fine sister, she was looking like a 70's crack head at an event that was honoring her. The Urban League honor her as woman of power
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