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04-16-2024 2:33 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Recent research conducted by Scientific American Online supported fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. The research found that law enforcement agencies that use automated facial recognition disproportionately arrest Black people.
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Nordstrom announced that the scholarship will continue ICON360’s mission to provide financial assistance to Black designers and fashion programs at HBCUs to help advance marginalized talent through education.
School is in session again!
At historically Black colleges and universities, there’s a new scholarship available for students, thanks to Harlem Fashion Row (HFR) partnering with Nordstrom. The retailer announced that the scholarship will continue ICON360’s mission to provide financial assistance to Black designers and fashion programs at HBCUs to help advance marginalized talent through education.
“As the founder and CEO of Harlem’s Fashion Row, I know firsthand the barriers in our industry. ICON360 is excited to partner with Nordstrom to provide more pathways for the next generation of Black designers and HBCU fashion students,” Brandice Daniel, founder and CEO of Harlem’s Fashion Row and ICON360, said.
HFR launched in 2007 and aimed to give designers of color recognition because they were consistently getting overlooked. Now, HFR is considered a leading agency that builds connections between brands and designers of color in the fashion world. Their partnership with Nordstrom to provide scholarships is just one of their many endeavors.
“Nordstrom set ambitious marketplace diversity and equity commitments. To reach these goals, we need to invest in improved pathways for fashion, design and retail talent,” said Colleen Mitchell, senior director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at Nordstrom.
We’re excited to witness the talent that comes out of this partnership!
James Cromitie, convicted in a post-9/11 terrorism sting was ordered freed from prison by a judge who criticized the FBI for relying on an “unsavory” confidential informant in an agency-invented conspiracy to blow up New York synagogues and shoot down National Guard planes
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School officials in Las Vegas have released police reports and body camera footage under court order of a campus officer kneeling on a Black student last year. Cellphone footage showed the Las Vegas teen recording officers detaining another student when one of the officers pulled the teen to the ground and kneeled on him. The officer said in a written report also released Thursday that he was investigating a report of a gun near the school. No weapon was found
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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley smiles while visiting Kay's Bakery and Cafe, during a campaign stop, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Hampton, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
On his Truth Social account Friday, Trump repeatedly referred to Haley, the daughter of immigrants from India, as “Nimbra.”
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Families should expect a significant decrease in questions, new language on the form and possibly larger grants for some students.
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The president asserted that his administration’s SAVE plan has helped 3.6 million Americans by canceling their student debt.
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Lawsuits and threat letters have targeted dozens of prominent companies and a wide array of diversity policies, including fellowships, hiring goals, anti-bias training and contract programs for minority-owned businesses. Some companies are already retooling their diversity programs in the face of lawsuits, and the growing expectation that the conservative-dominated Supreme Court will eventually take up the issue.
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He also never lost sight of the fact that civil rights — addressing racial and economic injustice — were inextricable from liberation, freedom, equality, and world peace.
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More than 162,000 homes and businesses in Oregon were without electricity Sunday following heavy snow and ice storms, according to poweroutage.us. The harsh weather in Oregon played a role in three deaths and weather-related deaths were also reported in California, Idaho, Illinois and Wisconsin
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