ROUNDUP: Senate Subcommittee Hearing Energizes Advocates for Legalizing Immigrant Essential Workers This Year The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety held a hearing, chaired by Sen. Alex Padilla titled “The Essential Role of Immigrant Workers in America.” In response to this unofficial kick off of the next stage of the immigration debate, […]
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Pfizer × BioNTech near historic vaccine
By Althea Champion Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Monday that their COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90 percent effective. If approved, it could potentially be available to the public by early December, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci. The results came out of Pfizer’s Phase 3 trial, which involved 40,000 individuals. Of those participating, 94 contracted […]
LABOR DAY: A TIME TO MOURN
By Althea Champion While others spend the day with their families outside, grilling kabobs, taking advantage of the last inklings of warm weather, or swarming flash retail sales, others will spend it inside either on the clock on site, from home, or in isolation. This Labor Day, 28 million Americans are out of work. Those […]
Farmworkers to Receive Hispanic Heritage Heroes Award
The Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) announced today that farmworkers across the country will be recognized with the Heroes Award during the 33rd Hispanic Heritage Awards, presented by Target, on the October 6th broadcast on PBS stations and stream on PBS.org. Farmworkers will be honored alongside Puerto Rican Musical Artist and Social Activist, Bad Bunny, who […]
POLARIS SLINGSHOT SUPERHERO RIDE
POLARIS SLINGSHOT TO CELEBRATE AND RECOGNIZE TODAY’S UNSUNG HEROES WITH A SUPERHERO RIDE Because Every Superhero Deserves a Superhero Ride Polaris Slingshot In Search of Stories About Those Going Above & Beyond In Everyday Life; Four Heroes will Win a Three-Month Rental of an All-New 2020 Slingshot Roadster In a time of unprecedented events, millions […]
#SoundTheHorn
Amtrak Teams with Transportation Partners Across the Country to #SoundTheHorn to Honor All Essential Workers Coalition of transportation agencies join in solidarity to honor heroic workers across the country by giving two horn blasts at 3:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 16 Amtrak is collaborating with transportation partners nationwide to honor all of the heroic […]