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Brooklyn DA Urged To Investigate Police Killing Of Caribbean-American Teen
Even as former Mayor David Dinkins was praising Brooklyn District Attorney Charles “Joe” Hynes at his re-election fundraiser earlier this week, a Caribbean American organization was calling for his office to investigate the shooting to…
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Nominations For First-Ever Music Educator Award Presented By The Recording Academy® And Grammy Foundation® Are Now Open
April 15 Is Deadline For Award Nominations WHO: The GRAMMY Foundation® and The Recording Academy® WHAT: At the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards® , President/CEO of The Recording Academy and GRAMMY Foundation Neil Portnow, TV and…
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President Obama Declares Major Disaster In Mississippi
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that federal disaster aid has been made available to the State of Mississippi and ordered federal aid to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery…
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BREAKING: Machel Montano Found GUILTY on Assault Charges
Reigning Power Soca Monarch and Road March King Machel Montano was this morning found guilty of five criminal offenses. Montano, along with Kernel Roberts, the son of legendary Calypso icon Lord Kitchener, Joel “Zan” Feveck,…
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MTV Latin America, Population Media Center And The United Nations Population Fund Launch Multiplatform Campaign SexySex To Empower Young People On Sexual Health And Violence Prevention
MTV Latin America, Population Media Center and the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) expand the social efforts of the network’s new novela, “Ultimo Ano” with the launch of the SexySex campaign. The new initiative encourages…
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Call For Filmmaking Proposals ($19 Million Initiative, Open To Caribbean, African Filmmakers)
Filmmakers in member countries of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions have an opportunity to enter proposals for audio-visual projects under the ACP Cultures + Programme. Areas of focus are production/creation, training/professionalization, distribution/dissemination and…
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American Heart Association Offers Multicultural Scholarship for Women
Are you a woman who is dreaming of a healthcare career but feel it’s out-of-reach? There is a need for qualified nurses, physicians and allied healthcare workers of diverse racial or ethnic heritage. We believe…
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Former Yele Haiti President Slams New York Times Article (DETAILS INSIDE!)
Hugh Sontag, former President and co-founder of Yele Haiti responds thoroughly and completely to the recent New York Times article about Yele Haiti and its co-founder Wyclef. Sontag. who stepped down from Yele in 2011,…
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Rapper Fabolous Says “I Will” for 9/11 Day – Many Pledge to Perform Good Deeds in Observance of Sept. 11
Brooklyn-born and Dominican descendant rapper John David Jackson aka Fabolous took the “I Will” Pledge for 9/11 Day…. will you? Annual campaign has transformed 9/11 into the nation’s largest day of charitable activity On radio and…
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Jamaican Policeman Charged with Killing Pregnant Woman While Trying to Arrest Her for Cursing
The religious community and police force in Yallahs, St Thomas, are in shock over what could have caused their church brethren and colleague to allegedly kill a pregnant mother of two and attempt to kill…
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