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Women who desperately wanted to speak with the Department of Homeland Security’s secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, were instead brought outside where they could not attempt to plea for help. According to The Intercept, Nielsen visited several detention centers late last week. During a trip to Port Isabel, in Los Fresnos, Texas,…
A 12-year-old girl delivered a powerful speech at an immigration rally over the weekend. Meanwhile, President Trump on the same day called for undocumented immigrants to be deported “IMMEDIATELY.” “It makes me sad to know that children can’t be with their parents,” said the young girl, identified as Leah. “I…
Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.) believes it’s time to get rid of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and start over. “I don’t think ICE today is working as intended,” Gillibrand told Chris Cuomo on CNN. “I believe that it has become a deportation force. And I think you should separate…
In an optimistic ruling, a judge in California has ordered an official halt on families being separated at the border, and demanded that all children separated from their parents be reunited within 30 days. Children five and under must be brought back with their families within two weeks. And all…
According to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, immigrants can receive justice without a judge present. “Just because you don’t see a judge doesn’t mean you don’t receive due process,” she said Monday. “The president would like to see us stop people from illegally entering the country at all,”…
Originally posted on Walterkaitz.com Comcast NBCUniversal will be honored at The Kaitz Dinner on September 18 at the New York Marriott Marquis with the Foundation’s 2019 Diversity Champion Award which recognizes the company’s thoughtful and inclusive leadership in an environment in which diversity flourishes. Through its practices, the company motivates…
Originally Published by Nielsen.com African Americans want more for themselves and from corporate America, and they express it with their dollars as they move through the consumer journey, from brand awareness to purchase, as revealed today in Nielsen’s 2019 Diverse Intelligence Series (DIS) Report on African Americans. It’s in the…
Originally Published by Newsroom.mastercard.com Advances in technology and actionable real-time data are driving businesses to operate faster and smarter. Yet, business payments are often rooted in legacy practices established decades ago. Until now. Mastercard (NYSE: MA) today unveiled its plans to modernize the business-to-business (B2B) payment ecosystem with Mastercard TrackTM….
Originally Published by News.marriott.com Moxy NYC East Village opens today in the heart of the iconic East Village where rock ‘n’ roll, renegade art, LGBTQ+ activism, and generations of immigrants all merged to give birth to American counterculture. Located on East 11th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues, directly across from the legendary…
Originally published on Bayer.com Changes to Board of Management structure as of January 1, 2020: The Supervisory Board of Bayer AG on Tuesday decided to reduce the size of the company’s Board of Management from seven to five members effective January 1, 2020. Dr. Hartmut Klusik (63) and Kemal Malik…
For the first time in U.S. history, people of color, in particular women of color, are the majority of prime working-age hires. “Prime working-age” is between 25 and 54 years old, according to the Washington Post’s analysis of Labor Department data. The department began collecting the data in the 1970s….
Kevin Richardson, one of “The Exonerated Five” was honored at Syracuse University with a benefit reception and the announcement of a scholarship in his name. Richardson was part of a group of Black and Latino teenagers previously called the “Central Park Five:” Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson…
As the national fight to remove racist Confederate monuments forged on last year, two neo-Nazi vandals desecrated a monument that commemorated the enslaved Africans responsible for building the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC). In March 2019, Ryan Barnett and Nancy McCorkle thought it was an excellent idea to…
Charles Anderson, the Michigan police officer found to have KKK memorabilia in his home, has been fired following a disciplinary hearing within the Muskegon Police Department. Last month, Anderson was outed when a couple, the Mathises, toured his home that was for sale. After seeing the framed KKK document, “Knights…
Felicity Huffman, one of the most high profile people caught in the biggest college admissions scandal in history, will be sentenced today for her role in it. But she couldn’t let it go without trying to excuse herself for paying $15,000 to boost her daughter’s SAT scores. According to Huffman,…
A new University of Los Angeles (UCLA) analysis of data from the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found discrimination leads transgender individuals to contemplate and attempt suicide at high rates. The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey by the National Center of Transgender Equality included responses from 27,715 transgender people from all 50…
A Genesee County jury awarded a Black couple, who sued the Michigan Department of Corrections after accusing their former employer of discrimination and retaliation, $11.3 million on Monday. The State of Michigan will more than likely appeal the decision. An all-white six-member jury ruled in favor of Lisa and Cedric…
Nyjah Vest, a Georgia woman, discovered a racist slur on the receipt for her order from a local Atlanta-area Mexican restaurant. Instead of writing of her name, the bill reportedly listed the N-word. The incident occurred Saturday night at the El Porton Mexican Restaurant in Duluth, Ga. Vest and friends…
Jarrid Wilson was a well-known California megachurch leader and mental health advocate. He killed himself at age 30 on Monday after tweeting multiple messages about depression and his faith. Wilson was a preacher at the megachurch Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, Calif. He also helped co-found the mental health nonprofit…
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) conducted a study that found even seemingly “inclusive” workplaces still leave women of color in interdependent work environments feeling isolated. The idea from the study, HBR said, came out of an episode of HBR’s “Women at Work” podcast, which discussed forging “sisterhood” relationships at work…
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