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Metro HS senior accepted into 39 schools, awarded $1.6M+ in scholarships
Jordan Nixon has been accepted to more than three-dozen schools and awarded more than $1.6 million in scholarships. […]
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Homeless Black Teen Gets Accepted into 17 Colleges — And He Was Not Part of a Cheating Scandal
Dylan Chidick, a 17-year-old teenager from New Jersey who has had several challenges including homelessness, has recently been accepted to 17 colleges. He is determined to be the first in his family to go to college. […]
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Dr. Johnnie Barto, a sexual predator pediatrician, gets up to 158 years in prison
Dr. Johnnie “Jack” Barto, 71, was hit with a sentence of 79 to 158 years in prison, virtually guaranteeing that he will die behind bars, Attorney General Josh Shapiro said. […]
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Missing Black Girls and the Individuals and Organizations Trying to Help
The two are among the estimated 64,000 Black girls and women across the United States that have gone missing. Iniaya and Skylar are also among an unfortunately growing number of young people listed in the “critically missing” section of the expansive database of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. […]
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Voter Suppression a Lasting Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
In Federalist No. 54, James Madison wrote about the chief concern of the representation of slaves concerning taxation and representation, Thorne said.
“This federalist paper states that slaves are property as well as people, therefore requiring some, but not full, representation. Ultimately a decision was made to count every three out of five slaves through the creation of the Three-Fifths Compromise,” he said. […]
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Jemele Hill: ‘I’m sort of all out of apologies.’
Hill was featured at this year’s Annual Norm Brewer First Amendment Lecture. She had famously tested the limits of the First Amendment while at ESPN when she tweeted that President Trump was “a white supremacist who surrounded himself with other white supremacists.” The White House called for her immediate dismissal. […]
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Dr. Michael Lomax and the UNCF Continue to HBCUs
UNCF awards more than $100 million in scholarships annually and administers more than 400 programs, including scholarship, internship and fellowship, mentoring, summer enrichment, and curriculum and faculty development programs. […]
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When in Dakar, Senegal to visit the Museum of Black Civilization, also check out a Black-owned book store called Chez Alpha Books
Tourists planning to visit the new Museum of Black Civilization in Dakar, Senegal should also take a moment to check out Chez Alpha Books, an English bookstore committed to writers from The Diaspora, fiction /non-fiction stories related to the history, and experiences of people from The Diaspora along with other world literature. […]
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Circle of Brotherhood engages in Operation Hunger Strike
Gun violence has been a serious issue in Miami. Many lengths have been taken to stop this issue before more lives are taken. The latest act to solve this problem is an anti-gun violence campaign organized by the Circle of Brotherhood called Operation Hunger Strike. […]
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No Charges Filed Against Officers Who Killed Stephon Clark
At a press conference, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said the officers were justified in unloading 20 shots at Clark while they were chasing a suspect in the Meadowview neighborhood in south Sacramento March 18, 2018. […]