Home»Latest News (Page 1172)

HUD Urges Localities To Prevent Evictions By Using Grant Funds

Rental assistance to prevent evictions is an allowable use of the $7 billion in HUD CARES Act funds

HUD Urges Localities To Prevent Evictions By Using Grant Funds

Sign in front of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in downtown Washington, DC on December 26, 2014. – WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 26 (Shutterstock)   WASHINGTON – Consistent with President Trump’s Executive Order “Fighting the Spread of COVID-19 by Providing Assistance to Renters and Homeowners”, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) […]

Caribbeans Count in the 2020 Census

Caribbeans Count in the 2020 Census

Dear Community, In response to the federal government cutting the crucial door-knocking efforts for the 2020 Census by an entire month, on Wednesday, September 2nd, the Caribbean Equality Project in partnership with Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, co-hosted a virtual Caribbean-focused Census event title “Census an’ Chill.” The historic event incorporated Caribbean culture and civic engagement through Census […]

How Corporate Diversity Initiatives Trap Workers of Colour

As companies around the world rush to implement diversity and inclusion programmes, the burden to launch these initiatives are unduly falling on employees of colour.

How Corporate Diversity Initiatives Trap Workers of Colour

By Sheryl Nance-Nash, BBC Amid the unsettling reality of the Covid-19 pandemic, another major epidemic has had global citizens reeling: racism. The deaths of black Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery ignited the Black Lives Matter movement in June, with protests that spread beyond US borders and around the world. In the wake […]

Funeral Service of Michael Aubertin, Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Castries, St Lucia

Funeral Service of Michael Aubertin, Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception Castries, St Lucia

Mike Aubertin contributed to the development of Arts and Culture not only from the perspective of being the Director of Culture for several years but as a practicing artist that spanned many years. He contributed indelibly to many art forms notably: Calypso, Theater, Literature, and Radio Broadcasting. His writings Neg Maron: Freedom Fighter, spoke of […]