By Trone Dowd, THE CITY With the 2020 Census stakes high for the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Council Speaker Corey Johnson have awarded $16 million grants to scores of nonprofits to help ensure every New Yorker is counted. Meanwhile, the city’s Department of Buildings is cracking down on unregistered apartments carved out of basements […]
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security obtained a pivotal judicial victory today after the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a nationwide injunction that prevented the agency from enforcing its regulatory interpretation of section 212(a)(4) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, a long-standing law that makes an alien inadmissible if the alien is likely at any time to […]
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The new coronavirus has been declared a global emergency by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to spread outside China. “The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries,” said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The concern is that it could […]
By Jessica L. Yarbrough, Vogue “A chemist for one of the biggest designer cosmetic brands in the world—I won’t say what the brand was, but you know it—called me to come in years ago, and I thought, Oh my God, this is huge,” recalls Rose-Marie Swift, makeup artist and founder of RMS Beauty. Their meeting started […]
Listen to an Interview with Ann-Marie Grant, Executive Director of AFUWI below or download the interview here. Why not say Yes! Dear Dear Friend of AFUWI, Show your support for education: the pathway to progress and empowerment. Join us along with our distinguished honorees and student scholarship representatives on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at the 23rd Annual […]
By Kirstie Taylor, Medium Getting into a romantic relationship with another human being is complicated. You both have your own thoughts, beliefs, backgrounds, and past experiences. Merging those into one, cohesive relationship comes with some work. But while a relationship is about understanding and sometimes giving instead of getting, there are a few things you […]
The teen's family is from Trinidad. He said that his dreadlocks are part of his heritage and that many men in his family wear them.
By Janelle Griffith, NBC News A black teenager in Texas said he had been suspended and told he can’t walk in his high school graduation ceremony unless he cuts his dreadlocks to meet the school district’s dress code. DeAndre Arnold, a senior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, about 30 miles east […]
NEW YORK, January 24, 2020 — New York is the eleventh healthiest state in America, reports financial news website 247wallst.com in a new report out today. 24/7 examined the 20 healthiest state in America from the United Health Foundation’s 2019 Health Rankings report. 24/7 included factors such as healthy behaviors, quality of health care, health policy, the presence of […]
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs, NY Times WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday gave visa officers more power to block pregnant women from visiting the United States and directed them to stop so-called birth tourism, or trips designed to obtain citizenship for their children. The administration is using the new rule, which takes effect Friday, to push […]
By Brett Samuels, The Hill The Trump administration is expected to formally announce the addition of several countries to its travel ban next week, prompting questions about its timing and the rationale for which nations will be added to the list. President Trump told reporters in Switzerland that he was preparing to roll out the […]