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Attorney Ben Crump Sues Harvard Over Slave Images

     The lawsuit filed today in Middlesex County Superior Court alleges that Harvard has ignored Tamara Lanier’s repeated requests to stop licensing the pictures for the University’s profit and stop misrepresenting her great-great-great grandfather, the man she knows as Papa Renty. A direct linear descendent of Renty, Ms. Lanier is seeking return of the photos to her family, as well as damages from Harvard. […]

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Rep. Bennie Thompson wins efforts to make Medgar Evers Home National Monument

     Because of the work of Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the Evers’ house at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, will now become a national historic landmark. The house where Medgar Evers’ was fatally shot was built in the first planned middle-class subdivision for African Americans in Mississippi after World War II. Thompson has been working on the honor for Evers for over ten years. […]

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NJ Middle School Teacher Calls Students ‘N Word’

“We send our children to school to get an education and learn to be future leaders in the world. We put our tax dollars into public schools, trusting that the institutions will make sure expectations are carried out in a safe environment,” Hudson said. “It’s obvious expectations are not being met in the Penns Grove-Carneys Point School District.” […]

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Cy Emery announces release of ‘Hiding in the Light: The Hunt’

Cy Emery admits that he was bullied when he was a kid. Once he became a teacher, he had students who had been bullied. His own kids experienced bullying as well. This subject prompted him to write “Hiding in the Light: The Hunt” (published by Xlibris), a young adult, action-adventure, coming of age story about the effects of bullying and the measures one takes to be accepted.  […]

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Yes, Dr. Willie W. Herenton is serious about wanting to be mayor of Memphis again

     It’s been almost a year since Herenton, who has been elected Memphis mayor five times, declared that he wanted back in. Since then, incumbent Jim Strickland has formally launched his reelection bid. And last week, District 7 Commissioner Tami Sawyer staked her mayoral claim, one that would make her the first woman to serve, if she navigated a path to victory. Lesser-known announced candidates include Pam Moses and Lemichael Wilson. […]