Category: Community
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Driving Diversity
How business leaders can spur workplace change (Family Features) The spotlight on inequality is driving increased dialogue and inspiring change on social and cultural levels, and the same is true of the business community. According to the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, just 18% of businesses in the U.S. are minority-owned, even…
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HBO Documentary Series BLACK AND MISSING, Spotlighting The Black And Missing Foundation’s Commitment To Locating Missing Persons Of Color
The Series Is The First Of A Four Week Collection Of Gripping Documentaries Exploring Crime Related Stories Four-part documentary series BLACK AND MISSING, by multiple Emmy® winner Geeta Gandbhir and award-winning documentarian, journalist, author and activist Soledad O’Brien, follows sisters-in-law and Black and Missing Foundation founders Derrica and Natalie Wilson as they fight an uphill battle…
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Making an Environmental Impact
(Family Features)As part of an effort to positively impact environmental change, many consumers care about the effect their shopping decisions may have on the world around them. As a way to aid in that mission, ALDI, which has never offered single-use plastic shopping bags, is aiming to make 100 percent of its private-label product packaging…
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Top Latina Speaker Gaby Natale Advocates at the United Nations for Gender Equality
3-time EMMY award winning entrepreneur, author and speaker Gaby Natale will join a group of decision makers for the fourth Hispanic Leadership Summit held at the UN Headquarters in New York to address the issues around gender equality and Latinas. “Women in general -and Latinas in particular- have been disproportionately affected both personally and professionally as a result of the pandemic.…
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Love Music. Stop Cancer. campaign launches to benefit lifesaving mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Carrie Underwood, Lady A, Carly Pearce, Brett Eldredge, others join more than 300 radio stations to support Music Gives to St. Jude Kids program, create awareness for new monthly giving campaign Launching today, dozens of popular artists and influencers such as Carrie Underwood, Lady A, Brett Eldredge, Carly Pearce, Kane Brown, Natalie Grant, Jonathan McReynolds, Mali Music, Jekalyn Carr, Banda MS and…
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Zeta Phi Beta Sorority’s National Educational Foundation Awards Historic $125,000 Founders’ Centennial Scholarship
On December 1, 2021, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated, an international women’s service organization, and the Zeta National Educational Foundation, Inc. (ZNEF) announced that Janae Smith-Williams was awarded $125,000 as the recipient of its Triumphant Founder Pearl Anna Neal Centennial Scholarship. Applications for ZNEF 2022 scholarships for high school seniors, college and graduate students will open tomorrow, Dec. 2, 2021 at https://z-nefscholarships.smapply.org. Smith-Williams,…
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Beyond the Bus – R.H. Boyd to Publish Book of Life Lessons from Mrs. Rosa Parks
Beyond the Bus: Rosa Parks Life, Lessons, and Leadership, a heartfelt collection of wisdom truths and anecdotes gleaned from author H.H. Leonards’ friendship with Mrs. Parks is available for pre-sale on December 1, the day that Mrs. Parks was arrested for refusing to relinquish her bus seat to white passengers. “This book is about my time…
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How to Support Adoption this Holiday Season
(Family Features) In the United States, more than 120,000 children in the foster care system are waiting to be adopted. With no permanent family to call their own, the gift of secure, safe and loving forever homes is the goal for these children. While fostering or adopting a child can be one way to make…
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Driving Commercial Success in Los Angeles Ahead of the LA28 Olympics
During a recent International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission meeting, legacy, collaboration and commercial success were highlighted as being key to the successful progress of preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games LA28. At the meeting held virtually on 17 November, the LA28 Organising Committee team presented a summary of their achievements and developments since the…
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The Rise Of Corporate Influence
The Rise Of Corporate InfluenceBy Dr. Tim G Williams The world today is still faced with a major health crisis, international terrorism and major inflation.. The reactions to these crisis has been a case study of how not to respond to a major outbreak of a potentially deadly virus, international terrorism and inflation. While some…