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The quest to diversify NYC’s specialized high schools
Black and Latinx students make up 3.9 percent of Stuyvesant High School’s student body according to recent statistics by U.S. News.
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Healthcare disparities hurts African immigrants
Other key challenges of African immigrants’ access to the health care system range from a language barrier, inundation with excessive information and paperwork and hostile services experience, according to PubMed.
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African Women Migrating to Escape Oppression
Like many other African women, the advanced feminist landscape in the U.S.—compared to Nigeria—played a significant role in Yongo-Okochi’s choice to migrate and remain in America.
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Black New Yorkers Want Manhattan’s First Black District Attorney To Be ‘Tough’
Bragg, Manhattan’s first Black DA, is welcomed by many New Yorkers as being home-grown, and for confronting issues important to the community.
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The only woman of color in Nashua’s city council is reelected
Shoshanna Kelly wins a second term as Nashua, New Hampshire's Alderwoman at-large.
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After a double digit loss in the NYC mayor’s race, Sliwa concedes to Adams
After a contentious race for NYC mayor, Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa conceded to rival Eric Adams just 40 minutes after […]
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A cat, a jacket and a jammed ballot makes voting a headache for NYC Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa
“I’ll be going to polling locations all day until the final tally at nine, and I will hear stories from Democrats, Independents and Republicans that their name wasn’t in the book even though they voted in the presidential election"
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Inhumane conditions at Rikers Island lead to protests
Today protestors again rallied to close "Torture Island."
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Curtis Sliwa trails in mayor’s race but fights on
Republican mayoral candidate and founder of the Guardian Angel, Curtis Sliwa, has spent the final week on the campaign trail hoping to pull ahead of his Democratic rival, Eric Adams.
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Black doulas are challenging rampant healthcare disparity
These health disparities are mostly a substantial reflection of the inequalities experienced by Black women on an array of socioeconomic factors.