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Studies Show Mass Support For Diaspora Plan LOS ANGELES, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- A bold and ambitious plan has been initiated which calls for African Americans to invest $100 billion in Africa annually. The author of the initiative will forward an advance copy of the plan and White Paper to South African President Jacob Zuma, African Union Chairman and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma....
LONDON, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Abela Publishing has pleasure in announcing the publication of LIGHT ON A DARK SECRET by Glynnis Hayward a Pulitzer Centre award-winning essayist. This is a book about inter-racial relationships and their consequences in apartheid-era South Africa. The Foreword has been written by Ken Andrew, former South African Opposition M.P. and human rights advocate. WHAT'S BEEN SAID ABOUT THE BOOK Insightful, revealing, shocking! A...
While census data shows racial diversity is increasing in major cities across the United States, highly diverse neighborhoods are still rare, newly arrived immigrants continue to settle in concentrated residential patterns, and many African Americans remain concentrated in segregated neighborhoods, according to recent research by Richard Wright, professor of geography and the Orvil E. Dryfoos Professor of Public Affairs. Wright and two colleagues—Steven R. Holloway of the University of...
Poor other-race neighbors contribute to poverty of black and Hispanic neighborhoods Unlike most whites, blacks and Hispanics tend to have neighbors from other racial groups who are disproportionately likely to be poor. This contributes importantly to the high poverty rates of the neighborhoods lived in by black and Hispanic families and to high poverty rates of schools attended by black and Hispanic children. Lincoln Quillian, professor of sociology and faculty fellow at the Institute...
NEW YORK, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Manhattan Film Festival (MFF) is proud to announce its 2012 line-up. A total of 142 films were selected, including 30 international films. Marcio Garcia's "Open Road," which stars Camilla Belle, Andy Garcia, and Colin Egglesfield, has been selected as the opening night feature narrative. Ana Nogueira and Eron Davidson's "Roadmap to Apartheid" was selected as opening night feature documentary. "Roadmap to Apartheid" is a multiple...
WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Leon H. Sullivan Summit IX officially launches the 100 Days of Change Campaign (www.thesullivanfoundation.org/100days) and Statement by the 2012 Summit Chairman His Excellency John A. Kufuor, former President of Ghana. "Your Excellency's and Heads of States,Government Representatives from the U.S. and Africa, CEOs of U.S. and International Corporations, It is a distinct pleasure for me to write about the struggles and freedoms...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. metropolitan areas with the lowest black-white residential segregation levels were located in the fast-growing South and West, according to analysis of 2010 U.S. Census results by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB). The most segregated metro areas were mainly concentrated in the slow-growing Northeast and Midwest. The report examined only metro areas with a total population of 500,000 or more and at least 3,000...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a decade-long rise in concentrated poverty, one in 11 residents of metropolitan areas now live in communities where at least 30 percent of their neighbors are poor, according to a pair of studies unveiled today by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The reports, A Lost Decade: Neighborhood Poverty and the Urban Crisis of the 2000s, produced in collaboration with the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, and...
Located at the John C. Stennis Space Center, the new office is intended to help Marstel-Day expand its trademark environmental consulting services by focusing on ecology, ecosystem services, and ecosystem markets within the Southeastern and Gulf Coast regions of the U.S. Fredericksburg, VA (PRWEB) September 06, 2011 Rebecca Rubin, president of the innovative environmental and conservation consulting firm, Marstel-Day, LLC, announced today that the company has established an office in the...
In the past 20 years, Martin Luther King's dream of the day when "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls" through school desegregation has not been realized for most, according to research by an Iowa State University economist.David Frankel, associate professor of economics, looked at public school enrollments from every school district in the country and found that school segregation between blacks and whites has improved...
