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Westchester Community Foundation Funds Criminal Justice Program Series at Libraries

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08/18/2017

... Museum, which is being developed, have announced a series of public programs called “Community Conversations: ... Criminal Justice, Yesterday and Today” to be held in October. The Westchester Community...

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Justice Reform

Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... the water during her swim lesson at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx one recent Tuesday morning, Kiara García, now ... at least not anymore. While seven years ago 69 percent of black...

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its ... expansion, is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide...

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Here Are 3 Ways Negotiation Skills Keep Advancing Gender Equality

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08/29/2017

... Advancing Gender Equality While women continue to advance in unprecedented ways, the journey towards full equality is still evolving. The history of that journey is also surprisingly young. On August 26, .....

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Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School

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08/31/2017

Compromise Reached in Boycott of Native American School A dispute over who ... board, which operates the school under a contract with the state , and has no Onondaga representatives, said that she...

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Education

The Next Houston

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08/31/2017

... The last time a major hurricane struck Miami directly, in 1926, it left almost 400 people dead, making it one of the 10 deadliest hurricanes on the record books in the ... that storm ravaged...

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China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change

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09/05/2017

... a threat to American jobs and decided to pull the U.S. out of the Paris agreement on climate change. “Multilateral ... are having a difficult time. The implementation of the Paris Agreement on climate change...

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Trump's DACA Decision Could Strip Thousands In New York Of Medicaid Coverage

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09/06/2017

Trump's DACA Decision Could Strip Thousands In New York Of Medicaid Coverage The Trump administration’s ... for Childhood Arrivals program could strip thousands of New Yorkers of...

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Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up

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09/06/2017

Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up A ... say they should be taken down. Majorities of voters in every region of the state...

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The DACA ‘Fix’ That Immigration Activists Fear

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09/07/2017

... States as minors — some commentators tried to find a ray of hope in the dismal forecast. Trump, they noted, would give ... that House Republicans sabotaged a chance to help Dreamers in 2013,...

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What’s The [Data] Point? $66 Billion in School Funding

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09/11/2017

What’s The [Data] Point? $66 Billion in School Funding What's The Data Point? Episode 11 - $66 ... school year. Gotham Gazette's Ben Max and CBC's Director of State Studies Dave...

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‘I Consider Myself American.’ A New York City Dreamer Reflects on What Losing DACA Would Mean For Him

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09/11/2017

... a decade ago, and still remembers his first impressions of New York City: towering buildings, modern cars, a jumble of cultures on the crowded sidewalks. Now 19, he grew up in a remote...

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NYSHealth 2018 Special Projects Fund Request for Proposals Available

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09/11/2017

... Projects Fund Request for Proposals Available The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) 2018 Special Projects ... will be invited to submit full proposals, with deadlines of November 30, 2017 and May 16...

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Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation

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09/13/2017

Exxon Loses Bid to Keep Auditor Files Secret in Climate Fraud Investigation Brushing aside objections by ... New York's highest court has opened the door for state officials to demand that the oil giant'...

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Top White House Official to Discuss Climate Change at U.N.

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09/13/2017

... climate and energy ministers from about a dozen nations in advance of next week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting, the ... in New York next Monday will be held against a backdrop...

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Joins Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute

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09/14/2017

... new Flatiron Institute, an intramural research division of the Simons Foundation that tackles big datasets — and ... “New scientific instrumentation has created datasets of unprecedented size and scope, and...

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Bed-Stuy’s Gentrification, Effects On Residents Analyzed In Comptroller’s Report

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09/20/2017

Bed-Stuy’s Gentrification, Effects On Residents Analyzed In Comptroller’s Report Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy is much ... the Right Thing highlighted the neighborhood. In the midst of gentrification, the...

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The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

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09/20/2017

... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is finding itself in an unfamiliar position: as a lightning rod for the fierce debate over the Obama administration’s role in the Syrian civil war. The museum is facing...

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