Members of the National Bankers Association. (Photo: MinorityNews.com)

In an effort to embrace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s call to strengthen and support black institutions, a group of bankers will use the dedication of the MLK memorial in Washington, D.C., this August as occasion to encourage people to open accounts in black neighborhood banks.

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A new report by the National Center for Education Statistics shows that while performance on academic achievement tests for Hispanic students in the U.S. has increased since the early 90s, those students have made little gains compared to their non-Hispanic white classmates. more>

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The NSEERS program, launched in 2002, demanded special registration from immigrants from 27 mostly Muslim countries.

Homeland Security has scrapped a program that demanded special registration for immigrants from Arab and Muslim countries in the years following 9/11 that saw 13,000 of the 80,000 men who registered put into deportation proceedings, mostly for immigration violations.

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