50 years ago yesterday, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. If, for some reason, you are not familiar with this Act, it enforced the voting rights granted by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The Act prohibited racial discrimination in voting, and gave Black people the explicit right to vote…
THE MAVINS GROUP PARTNERS WITH THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SENIOR MOVE MANAGERS AND MOVE FOR HUNGER TO MAKE A MOVE FOR HUNGER Westfield, NJ – May 5, 2015 – One in six Americans struggle with hunger and nearly 400,000 children in New Jersey live in food insecure homes. Beginning the Saturday before Mother’s Day, May 9,…
The Power of Diverse Collaboration: Women in Business New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO) 10th Annual Diversity Luncheon Keynote speaker: Cheryl McCants I am so humbled and honored. I have been asked to be the keynote speaker for the Metro East Region of NJAWBO’s 10th annual diversity luncheon to be…
6.18 mm is the thickness of Huawei’s new smartphone, 20% thinner than the iPhone 5. 27% more child fatalities in Afghanistan during the first third of 2013 over the same period in 2012. 5,800% increase in Amazon sales of the Centennial Edition of George Orwell’s 1984 in the wake of revelations that the NSA collects…
$222,222,222.22 is the amount in euros ($295 million) a German bank employee transferred when he fell asleep while pushing the number “2” key. 40% of designated drivers drink before driving, according to a new study. $47 billion is the projected increase in 2013 U.S. credit-card debt, even as Americans paid down $32.5 billion in the…
$95 is the cost of Magic Kingdom’s one-day-ticket new price, $5 more other Disney parks. $272,000 is the signing bonus for new Army psychiatrists willing to serve in uniform for four years. 63 is the number of letters in “Rindfleischetikettierungsuberwachungsaufgabenubertragungsgesetz”,a beef-labeling law and the longest word in German until new regulations made it obsolete. $26,000…
30 billion cicadas will emerge with one order of business: mating. 400 — the number of eggs that female cicadas can lay. 10.9% is the rise in year-over-year housing prices in 20 U.S. cities, the biggest jump since April 2006; prices peaked that year. $671,400 is the auction price for an Apple-1, the original machine designed…
$6 Billion was collected by U.S. airlines in baggage and reservation-charge fees in 2012. 78,000 people have applied for a one-way trip to Mars as part of a private venture. 1979 was the year that the U.S. Supreme court ruled against gender bias in alimony awards. $8.2 Billion was the total alimony received in the…
600:1 is estimated ratio of cicadas bugs to people on the U.S. East coast. The bugs will emerge by the billions this summer, after spending 17 years underground. 4,378% more American women are choosing under-arm, plastic surgery since 2000. In a recent survey, 31% said they most admire Michelle Obama’s arms. A 70 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus…
958% say sudden inspiration is the root of creative ideas, while 32% say it takes time to be innovative1% value creativity in their personal life and 83% value it in the career 50% think visually when being creative, 34% think in words, while 4% think in sounds 55% say technology is making Americans more…