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Co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter leads rally for LGBT youth  - Stories like Pope's and others who exist at the intersection of the African - American and LGBT communities was the focus of this year's Spirit Day, ...

Florida Education leaders and Co-Founder of College Admissions Assistance, LLC ... : During the summit, Suzanne Walsh, Senior Program Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pointed out that “intergenerational poverty transmission is at its highest point” and that “education is the single biggest disruptor” to the poverty cycle. ... PR Web (press release)

Fabio Ochoa Vásquez, founder of the Medellín Cartel, is deported to Colombia after serving over 20 years in a US prison for drug-trafficking. View article...

In Cuban dissident's visit to Miami, a glimmer of reconciliation across the ... “It's as if, I don't want to say the last 50 years never happened, because obviously there's still pain there,” said Gorordo, co-founder of Roots of Hope, a group that connects young Cubans in the U.S. and on the island. “But we've been able to move ...

Du Bois legacy celebrated on 50th anniversary of his death Du Bois would go on to become the first African - American to earn a doctoral degree from Harvard University. He would go on to be a co-founder of the National  ...

After Joan Dressen learned her son was gay in the early 1980s, she immediately started looking for resources and support for her child and her family. View article...

“People think of big cities when they think about the LGBTQ community because it's just more visible there,” said Barry Loveland , co-founder of ... View article...

Jessie Close, sister of Glenn Close, writing book about mental illness; due ... Jessie Close has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has made public appearances with her sister to discuss mental illness . Glenn Close is the co-founder of Bring Change 2 Mind, a nonprofit organization with a mission to “eradicate the stigma and ...

Twofold dilemma of DWI: State wrangles with repeat offenders; some focus on ... : A first offender, for example, rarely gets the maximum of 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. "It's never done," said Linda Atkinson, co-founder and director of the DWI Resource Center in Albuquerque. Cynthia Delgado of the New Mexico Underage Drinking ...

Robert Emery is a historian, activist, and advocate for the gay community in Dallas as well as co-founder of The Dallas Way. View article...

Free school champion blames Labour party for slide in school ...  - Toby Young, co-founder of free school, claims Welsh education system is 'a ... education regardless of their background and features compulsory Latin up to the  ...

A Co-Founder of the Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition, she was a 2009 David Bohnett LGBT Leadership Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of ... View article...

Technology means democratizing services for people who normally didn't have them, and the financial industry is no exception. View article...

Kevin Spacey faces backlash from LGBT community after coming out - Linda Riley, publisher of Diva magazine and co-founder of the British LGBT Awards, says it was "disappointing" that the actor chose this moment to ...

Chuck Stone, former UNC professor & NABJ co-founder, dies  - Stone wrote for and led some of the country's most influential African - American newspapers, including the Washington Afro - American where he .

She first rose to national prominence as the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television ( BET ), the groundbreaking cable network that transformed ... View article...

Cass students' venture has no comparison  - But the co-founder of Comparabien, the fast-growing Latin-American price ... loans, insurance products and telecoms for six Latin American nations .

The first Latino president  - Gary Segura, the principal and co-founder of the polling firm Latino ... They're happy about what he finally did—shielding 5 million people from ...

Remembering KPFT's Ray Hill, Pioneering “Prison Show” Host and LGBT Activist in Houston - Ray Hill, a co-founder of Pacifica radio station KPFT in Houston, Texas, died Saturday from heart failure. He was 78. After his release from prison in ...

Should Peru pay for its own development? The Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist identified Peru as an example of a country that should no longer receive aid from Spain, and suggested that Peruvians should now spend more of their own money to lift their people out of poverty .