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Photo: businesstoday.in By Isaac Cohen* The most intriguing question for the new year is if 2021 will be better than 2020. That is if the world economy will overcome both the pandemic and the economic contraction it caused. Therefore, the first question for 2021 is if massive vaccination will vanquish…

Photo: Office of President Elect in Wilmington, Delaware Details matter. Staten Island, NY — President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal…

Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also…

By Molly Willmott - AAN Staff Blog The Google News Initiative, in partnership with the Association of Alternative Newsmedia (AAN), the National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP), and the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), today kicked off the GNI Ad Transformation Lab: a six month program to help Black and…

Washington, D.C. (January 15, 2021) – Yesterday, the Tahirih Justice Center and Ayuda filed a lawsuit challenging the outgoing administration’s sweeping regulations that would overturn U.S. asylum law. Finalized in December 2020, the rule would make it effectively impossible for people fleeing persecution to obtain protection in the United States, gutting…

 Photo: Cesar Vargas As a soldier and immigration attorney, Cesar Vargas shares a uniform and commitment to immigration advocacy with his wife, Yesenia Mata, a member of the Army Reserve military police. Mata, 31, is executive director of Staten Island community-job center La Colmena, which serves day laborers, domestic workers,…

Photo: courtesy of Democracy Now! In Ireland, a devastating new report details the neglect and other abuse faced by tens of thousands of babies, children and women at so-called Mother and Baby homes, which were run by the Catholic Church from the 1920s to the 1990s. An estimated 9,000 children…

Photo: courtesy Democracy Now! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is threatening to begin new impeachment hearings against President Trump if Vice President Mike Pence doesn’t invoke the 25th Amendment of the Constitution to remove Trump from office for inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol. Calls are also growing for Republican…

Photo: rightwomen.org. STATEN ISLAND, NY -  Staten Islanders will hold a rally outside the Staten Island office of Congressmember Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) to ask for her resignation after voting to undermine the democratic process that elected Joe Biden as president of the United States. Echoing President Trump's false claims of fraud, Malliotakis motivated a…

Photo: today.umd.edu Washington D.C. [CapitalWirePR] January 7, 2021 .-  Marco Davis, President and CEO of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI), made the following statement:  "We are deeply saddened and upset by yesterday’s events. The actions of the violent mob at the U.S. Capitol were an attack on some of…