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      Salome Thomas-EL, a charter school principal and award-winning national education expert, captivated an audience of over 500 educators with his keynote address on overcoming barriers to success at the 2018 National Title I Conference in Philadelphia, Penn.

It has been 3 months, since my school, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, came face to face with the devastating reality of gun violence.  Nestled in the corner of my Algebra II class on the second floor of the Freshman Building, I can still her the screams of the students and teachers from the floors above and below.

“These are the words from an introduction speech that the late Idella Grissett giving honor to the legacy of ‘The Know Thy Greatness’ exhibit in Pompano Beach.

The museum is a memorial to the 4,400 African Americans murdered in terrorist lynching’s, which included beatings, drownings and being burned at the stake by whites between 1877 and 1950 in 12 Southern States including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Their names are engraved on duplicate sets of columns, two for each county where a lynching was documented.

      A long-awaited report that details what federal agencies spend on advertising in African American-owned newspapers is finally near completion, according to officials in the General Accounting Office (GAO).

Convicted comedian Bill Cosby will remain on house arrest until he’s sentenced this summer following his conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent sexual assault.