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Arab American Heritage Month Celebration Recap | Marx Markings
Arab American Heritage Month Celebration Recap | Marx Markings
Celebrate Arab American Heritage Month April is Arab American Heritage Month and all of last month we have been highlighting resources to learn more about Arab American issues. Below we recap those resources. National Arab American Heritage Month (NAAHM) celebrates the heritage, culture, and contributions of Arab Americans. Immigrants with origins from the Arab world
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Arab American Heritage Month Celebration Recap | Marx Markings
Home - National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Home - National Digital Inclusion Alliance
A unified voice for home broadband access, public broadband access, personal devices, and local technology training and support programs. A community of digital inclusion practitioners and advocates.
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Home - National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Arizona Evictions & Foreclosure Resources
Arizona Evictions & Foreclosure Resources
By Hannah Plotkin and Francesco Fasano The rate of housing loss is unfortunately increasing throughout Arizona. Rising rents, stagnant wages and job insecurity are driving a looming crisis. Exacerb…
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Arizona Evictions & Foreclosure Resources
Reading List: Power Dynamics at Play in Social Change (SSIR)
Reading List: Power Dynamics at Play in Social Change (SSIR)
Ahead of the 2022 Frontiers of Social Innovation conference, “Power at Play in Social Change,” a collection of articles exploring shifts in philanthropy, place-based social change, public interest technology, and more.
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Reading List: Power Dynamics at Play in Social Change (SSIR)
Breonna Taylor's mother meets with DOJ, demands federal charges against officers in her death | CNN Politics
Breonna Taylor's mother meets with DOJ, demands federal charges against officers in her death | CNN Politics
Breonna Taylor's mother, Tamika Palmer, met with officials from the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division on Monday to ask them to investigate the fatal shooting of her daughter during a botched police raid in 2020 -- and ultimately to bring federal charges against the officers involved.
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Breonna Taylor's mother meets with DOJ, demands federal charges against officers in her death | CNN Politics
“Americans and the Holocaust”: Libraries Keeping the Lights On
“Americans and the Holocaust”: Libraries Keeping the Lights On
By Jenny Silbiger The Americans and the Holocaust (AATH) traveling exhibit arrived to our island home of Oʻahu on January 28, 2022, and left a couple of days ago, on March 9th.  The traveling …
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“Americans and the Holocaust”: Libraries Keeping the Lights On
CEBV
CEBV
Virtually all the experiences in your daily life are affected by laws enacted by state legislatures--from roads and local services to criminal justice, women's autonomy, individual privacy, funding...
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CEBV
Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
NCSL's policing legislation database provides you with legislation introduced in all 50 states on law enforcement oversight, data, policing alternatives and collaboration, technology including body cameras, training, standards and certification, use of force standards and other issues.
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Legislative Responses for Policing-State Bill Tracking Database
Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime
Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidents typically say a few words before they turn legislation into law. But Joe Biden flipped the script Tuesday when it came time to put his signature on the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.
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Biden signs bill making lynching a federal hate crime
The Human Cost of Hardening the US-Mexico Border
The Human Cost of Hardening the US-Mexico Border
Like all borders, the line between Mexico and the US was once virtually open. Then the US embarked on a decades-long, bipartisan, and entirely futile quest t...
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The Human Cost of Hardening the US-Mexico Border