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Eagle Pass, Texas CNN — A new surge of migrants at the US-Mexico border is overwhelming already-stretched resources and prompting urgent talks with Mexican officials as December border crossings reached a record monthly high. Border authorities encountered more than 225,000 migrants along the US-Mexico border this month, marking the highest monthly total recorded since 2000, […]
U.S. Consul General Roger C. Rigaud and Canadian Consul General Sandra Shaddick today joined UNHCR’s Head of Sub-Office for northern Mexico and local business, educational and political leaders in La Laguna for a productive discussion on how integrating asylum seekers and refugees into the regional economy can strengthen U.S.-Mexico-Canada nearshoring initiatives. Consuls General Rigaud and […]
Washington, DC—Below is a statement by Tom Cochran, CEO and Executive Director of The United States Conference of Mayors, on the passing of former Kansas City Mayor Richard Berkley. “Dick Berkley was one of the best mayors I have had the privilege to serve in my 50 year-plus-tenure with The United States Conference of Mayors. […]
My Lord Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, These are deeply challenging times for our world. Events far beyond our shores echo here at home with implications for our security, our economy, and our very social fabric. It falls to us to do everything we can to shape these events. And so, we’ve delivered one of the […]
Springfield, MA — This year’s Springfield Cultural Appreciation Week (CAW) celebration will feature a posthumous tribute to US Marshal John Gibbons and Hampden Juvenile Assistant Clerk Magistrate Abbie Davies, who is believed to be the first woman and first African-American woman to hold the position in Hampden County. The celebration will take place Friday, October […]
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Mayor’s Office of Special Events Mayor’s Hispanic Heritage Awards Mayor Turner Honoring Six Outstanding Houstonians During Hispanic Heritage Month Septempber 25, 2023 — In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, Mayor Sylvester Turner and the Mayor’s Hispanic Advisory Board are honoring six exemplary Houstonians in the Houston Hispanic community. The individuals were nominated by members of […]
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Many local, national and international events impacted race relations in the United States and Johnstown leading up to the 1923 Rosedale incident and Mayor Joseph Cauffiel’s order banishing Black and Mexican people from the city. Here is a look at a few of those moments. • Dec. 18, 1865: The 13th Amendment […]
A Hope That Lights The Way lifts up hometown heroes across the city who are changing the gun violence narrative PHILADELPHIA – This evening, the Mayor’s Office of Public Engagement (OPE), with creative direction from the Mayor’s Office of Black Male Engagement (OBME), will host the Night of Hope Gala and premiere the documentary A Hope […]
Join the Mayor’s Office of Black Male Engagement (OBME), the Mayor’s Commission on African American Males, the Mayor’s Office of Youth Engagement, the Department of Public Health, and DBHIDS’s