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Students Return to Classrooms Oklahoma City’s youngest students are likely to return to face-to-face classes next month, The Black Chronicle has learned. The school district announced last week that pre-kindergarten…

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Social Distancing sparks new National Nurses Week tradition | The Crusader Newspaper Group

The annual Blessing of the Hands ceremony is a highlight of every Nurses Week celebration at Advocate South Suburban Hospital, 17800 Kedzie Ave., in Hazel

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In an initiative with the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, Community Scholar, Inc., a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is hiring Jamaican teachers to tutor students in the United States over the Internet.

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GCS honors grads under new ‘social distancing’ rules

Since Guilford County Schools has cancelled its traditional 2020 graduation ceremonies, schools have still found ways to celebrate

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Before a child can enroll in Volusia County schools, parents and guardians must provide proof of immunizations for a child entering kindergarten or seventh

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Westchester Rotary Club to present scholarships June 24

WESTCHESTER — The Rotary Club of Westchester will present a variety of scholarship awards to some of the area’s best and brightest high school students during a special “drive-through” ceremony and parade beginning at 12:30 p.m. June 24 at the Westchester Family YMCA Annex at 8020 Alverstone

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LAPD funding slashed by $150M, reducing number of officers

LOS ANGELES (AP) — City leaders voted Wednesday to slash the Los Angeles Police Department budget by $150 million, reducing the number of officers to a level not seen for more than a decade amid nationwide demands to shift money away from law enforcement agencies during America’s reckoning over

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Oakland, California- School board becomes the 1st in the nation to recognize black english aka Ebonics as a sepearate language, NOT a dialect or slang.

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Watson, Diane Edith (1933- )

Diane Edith Watson was born November 12, 1933 in Los Angeles, California and has spent the majority of her life in the Los Angeles area. Her father was a Los Angeles policeman and her mother worked nights at a post office after her parents divorced when Watson was

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A Texas Student Was Told To Remove Her Braids For Her Graduation

That is until Monday, when the principal at Gladewater High School, Cathy Bedair called Hooper’s mom to tell her the hairstyle violated the school dress

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Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie , byname of John Birks Gillespie (born Oct. 21, 1917, Cheraw, S.C., U.S.—died Jan. 6, 1993, Englewood, N.J.), American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was one of the seminal figures of the bebop

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Coronavirus Forces Families to Consider Alternative Forms of Education.

The school year is ending, and Chicago families are preparing for a long

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HISD students can apply now for Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer

HISD families can now complete the applications necessary to receive Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT), a one-time benefit for families who lost access to free or reduced-price meals due to school

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Rwanda Tourism Sector Turns to Domestic Market for Survival and Recovery

The sector's best chances for survival in the short and medium term lie in the domestic tourism, according to The Economic Recovery Plan, covering the period May 2020 - December

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The Tie Breaker Ruling in Perspective: A Plaintiff Looks Back on the Historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision of 2007

In 2000 Kathleen Brose led an organization called Parents Involved in Community Schools which filed a lawsuit against the Seattle School District, challenging its tie-breaker rule in Seattle Public Schools which gave preference to racial minorities in school assignments when all else was

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Study Examines Parents’ Perceptions and Interactions With Educators

Idara Essien, PhD and J. Luke Wood, PhD, a married couple, is looking for parents who have Black children enrolled in preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third

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On a wing and a prayer: Mnangagwa turns to God as crises mount

Faced with a health crisis and an imploding economy, President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday declared June 15 as the presidential national day of prayer in the hope that this could help stem the rising COVID-19

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Fox Chapel district investigates racist videos as students and alumni call it to embrace Black Lives Matter movement

Hundreds of Fox Chapel students and alumni are calling on their school district to more aggressively address racial injustice in the district as Black Lives Matter protests have sprung up across the country, including the Pittsburgh

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Lauder backed group ramps up fight to keep NYC elite school test

Along with former Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons, the Bronx Science graduate is putting up an additional $500,000 to renew and expand a test prep tutoring program for African-American and Hispanic city

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Taxi rape alarm! - Manhunt on for another cabbie out west

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Black Student Loan Debt Should Be An Issue For All Of Us – Free Press of Jacksonville

Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, has put forward a student loan debt cancellation plan for people who earn $125,000 a year or

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Gov. Newsom Extends Statewide Freeze on Evictions Until July

On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order halting evictions for renters across California until July

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Kappa Alpha Psi, Fraternity founded

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GCSC officially kicks off Enrollment Campaign | The Crusader Newspaper Group

On Friday, June 19, which was also Juneteenth, the Gary Community School Corporation officially launched its 2020 Enrollment

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Baton Rouge School Board Member Got Dragged For All The Filth By Black Activist Gary Chambers

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Charleston County School District to provide Full-Time Virtual academy option for students

Charleston County School District will offer a Full-time Virtual Academy during the 2020-2021 school year. The option provides a quality curriculum and instruction with a more flexible environment than the traditional school setting. As a full-time online public Kindergarten-12th grade program, the

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HBCUs: They Have Overcome And Will Do So Again

I have every confidence that, like Harvard, flagship HBCUs such as Hampton and Howard Universities will adapt and continue to provide excellence in education and opportunities for the next generation to learn and develop the skills needed to compete in the domestic and global

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Tackling, sparring allowed in next stage for Britain’s elite athletes

LONDON, (Reuters) – Soccer players will be able to tackle in close-contact training, and boxers spar with partners, in the next step towards Britain’s elite athletes returning to live sport after the COVID-19 lockdown, guidance published yesterday

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Three days of protest spark mixed reactions — Oaklanders question who is behind the destruction. | Post News Group

Thousands of people took to Oakland streets beginning May 29 for what was largely a peaceful protest against the death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, Minn., who died after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine

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Lowcountry Food Bank Partners with Summer Food Service Program to Offer Summer Meals for Children

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Should police be in Pittsburgh schools? Advocates call for removal reignited in wake of Floyd’s death

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