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      Many may remember Coley for being the youngest student to graduate with an Associate of Arts degree from then-Tallahassee Community College – currently Tallahassee State College – at 15 years old in 2023, where she also graduated from Lincoln High School already halfway through her college career.

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Two seniors from Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications are heading to Washington after earning one of journalism’s most competitive honors. Christin Fluellen (left) and Jade Abu Bakr (right) have been named recipients of White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) scholarships.

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     There were also folks in my Winston-Salem NC community who had worked for many years and were now retired. To be honest, the word “retired” wasn’t in my vocabulary as a young boy. I would ask my parents about a particular person, and they would simply say he\she was retired.

BLACKPRESSUSA.COM NEWSWIRE — Lest we forget. Blacks and Jews stood together against racism and antisemitism. Blacks and Jews marched together and went to jail together for voting rights. Blacks and Jews shared blood together at the hate-filled, blood-thirsty hands of white supremacist racists and anti-Semites.

   Both America and Israel can’t and should never   allow any of its enemies, especially weak unsophisticated ones, to launch a surprise attack killing thousands of its citizens. They must be ever so cognizant of how their own foreign policies and suppressive tactics create an endless slate of enemies. Regrettably, failure to prevent such attacks gives rise to the scourge of deadly vengeance.

     It was much more than a political assessment when I declared 15 months ago that “we know Joe, and most importantly, Joe knows us.” Joe Biden is succeeding because of he understands the needs and aspirations of the American people. His bold and inclusive initiatives are restoring the faith of those who have been hardest hit by the current health and economic crises and raising the hopes of those who had already been hard hit by injustices in our society long before these crises struck. 

   During the early Civil Rights Movement when women worked behind the scenes, her quiet power brought wisdom and a social worker’s perspective to deliberations and strategies of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders. With an understanding of the importance of power of location, she purchased a building in Washington, D.C. between the White House and the Capitol, the only African American-owned building along that corridor of power.