100 Best Companies to Work For
List Rank Company Name No. of US Employees Job Growth 1 Google 42,162 20.1% 2 SAS 6,588 […]
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Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
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Opportunities and Recommendations for Neighborhood Revitalization after Foreclosures
Although the foreclosure crisis is causing huge and lasting amounts of pain for families, neighborhoods, and regions, no upheaval is without its opportunities. The crisis provides a window for governments, nonprofits, lenders, funders, and the entire development community to rethink neighborhood revitalization, foreclosed and vacant properties, and regional and neighborhood planning. This is a time […]
Mar 14 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
Kwakwaduam Association donates computers to the Presbyterian University of Akropong
The Kwakwaduam Association of New York has donated a set of 10 Brand New Laptops, Computer Tables and Chairs worth about $7,500 to the Akropong Presbyterian University in Ghana as part of their global outreach program. The presentation was done on behalf of the Kwakwaduam Association by Dr. Kwame Aniapam Boafo a Consultant to the […]
Mar 14 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
Pilot Project Helps Some Immigrants Avoid Deportation
Sitting in a row on an ordinary bench and looking at the floor almost the entire time, five handcuffed people wearing orange-colored clothing waited their turn to approach Judge Noel Brennan in the New York Immigration Court. It’s a common sight in that court, located on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan, where around 900 New […]
Mar 14 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
Barack Obama, deporter-in-chief
Expelling record numbers of immigrants is a costly way to make America less dynamic OCTAVIO NAVA CABRERA was pulled over by police in Illinois in April 2013 for going through a stop sign. He had arrived in the state in 1986, aged 13, and most of his family still live there. He did not have […]
Mar 2 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
Kwakwaduam Association – Celebrates End of Year Dinner Dance
The Kwakwaduam Association of New York celebrated its 2013 End of year Fund Raising Dinner at the Eastchester Manor in the Bronx, New York. The theme of the celebration was “Helping Blind Children See”. Proceeds from the Fund Raising launched by Dr. Kwame Aniapam Boafo was to advance the cause of Blindness in Ghana and […]
Mar 2 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
NYPD’s Ghana, Togo language speakers add to its diversity
Of the department’s latest batch of 650 new officers, two speak ‘Ewe,’ the primary language of thousands of people from Ghana and Togo — a first for the force. Two of the 650 recruits that joined the NYPD Police Academy Thursday speak the primary language of Ghana and Togo — a first for the 168-year-old […]
Jan 26 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
Amiri Baraka, famed African American literary giant, firebrand dies at 79
by Kwabena Opong Amiri Baraka, a major African American writer described as a primary intellectual architect of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s died January 9 at a Newark hospital aged 79. Cause of death has not been reported but Prof. Baraka has been hospitalized in intensive care since December 2013. Baraka closely identified […]
Jan 25 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
Military Officer Ordained Pastor
Rev. Eugene Yeboah Ansah, a commissioned officer and Chaplain in the United States Air Force Reserves was ordained a Pastor last month at the First Presbyterian Church, Irvington, New Jersey. A product of the University College of Education, Winneba, Ghana, Rev. Yeboah Ansah holds two graduate degrees, Master of Divinity and Master of Art Marriage […]
Jan 25 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »
The Great Vitamin Scam
Paul A. Offit, This week, the Annals of Internal Medicine—one of the world’s leading medical journals—published three studies evaluating the benefits of vitamins and dietary supplements. The first study determined whether healthy people who received daily multivitamins had a lesser incidence of cancer or heart disease and whether they lived longer. The study was quite […]
Jan 23 2014 | Posted in Community News | Read More »