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Newswire: FBI investigating noose left in NASCAR stall of Black driver
By: Jenna Fryer, Associated Press Federal authorities on Monday confirmed they are investigating the discovery of a noose found in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall of Bubba Wallace, NASCARs only Black full-time driver who successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag
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Rep. Maxine Waters Keynotes California Statewide Black Graduation - Los Angeles Sentinel
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) served as the virtual keynote speaker for more than 2,500 African American graduates from 24 colleges across the state of California on Friday, June 19. The virtual graduation was organized by students and one of the founders of Brunch 2 Bomb, Adrienne Reed, as
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Former Saniation Worker Celebrates Recent Acceptance to Harvard Law
Rehan Staton is a 24-year-old former sanitation worker who recently celebrated his acceptance to the prestigious Harvard School of Law.
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Michigan House Passes 'Return to Learn' Education Plan | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
(The Center Square) – The Michigan House Wednesday night approved Republican’s “Return to Learn” plan to change how districts count attendance and provide in-person learning for students from kindergarten through … Continued
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Unedited 'Eyes on the Prize' Interviews with John Lewis and C.T. Vivian Available to Stream at American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WATCH)
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) has made John Lewis’ unedited interview for Eyes on the Prize (1987) and for Eyes on the Prize: They Loved You Madly (1979), available to st…
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Ramaphosa suspends classes: What happens with the school year now?
The school year has been suspended, and pushed back even further. But what does Ramaphosa's address mean for the education sector?
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Arkansas daycare kicks out girl, 6, for wearing Black Lives Matter shirt - TheGrio
A mother in Arkansas is alleging her 6-year-old daughter was kicked out of her daycare because she wore shirts that supported Black Lives Matter and racial justice. READ MORE: Mother sues Franklin County Board of Education for racial discrimination Journei Brockman has attended daycare at His Kids
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Voter suppression goes to college | Atlanta Daily World
By BlackPressUSA Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV Analytics, a ‘North Carolina-focused campaign consulting firm serving Democratic candidates with advanced campaign analytics, analyzed student voter turnout from ten North Carolina campuses, three of them HBCUs N.C. AT University, in
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Ransomes ‘Everyday People on display at Children’s Museum of Houston | Afram News
The Children’s Museum Houston has unveiled a brand-new art exhibit which celebrates people, places and defining moments in African American history, just in time for Juneteenth.
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Calls for more teachers, despite uncertainty over schooling
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Head Start students can access learning at home in July
To help our youngest students continue learning, the MPS Head Start program is now offering summer activities available at home. For the month of July, families can help their children learn through Google Classroom. Children ages 3 and 4 who were enrolled in Head Start in spring will have
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Michigan Chronicle/TCF Bank S.W.A.G. Awardees Continue to Build Community and Reach Higher | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
As the cost of higher education continues to trend upwards, students are searching far and wide for scholarships to pay for college. Recognizing the need to remove the financial barrier to higher education, the Michigan Chronicle partnered with TCF Bank to develop the S.W.A.G. Scholarship Awards to
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Ke’Undra Cox seeks Eutaw City Council Seat District 1
My Name is Ke’Undra Cox. I am running to represent District 1 on the Eutaw City Council. I am passionate about our community. I want to do everything I can to make this a city we can be proud of. My platform has a focus on three things: Jobs, Transparency and Investment.Data has shown that []
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Greene County High students show noted progress in ACT scores
The Greene County Board of Education held its regular meeting on Monday, June 15, 2020, as a Virtual Zoom meeting in keeping with safety measures relative to COVID-19 Pandemic. All board members were participants as well as Superintendent Corey Jones, Attorney Hank Sanders and CSFO LaVanda Blair.In
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Dr. Billy C. Hawkins to be 1st Black President at Talladega College to have Building Named in his Honor
Talladega College will hold a naming ceremony for the Dr. Billy C. Hawkins Student Activity Center on August 14, 2020. The newly constructed 47,000-square-foot student center/arena will be the firs…
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Alabama Power Foundation grant makes ‘virtual learning’ a reality for rural Greene County students
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Alabama schools to close their traditional classrooms in March, Corey Jones said it hit his students in rural Greene County doubly hard.“We’re one of the poorest school districts in the state, and most of our students don’t have computers or access to the
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Schools reopening a ‘collaborative effort’ – Daytona Times
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters on Wednesday the Florida Department of Education should not dictate local school-district decisions, even though the department issued an emergency order that says schools must reopen in August unless health officials say
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Five arrested at SOS protest at State Capitol for ‘defacing public property’ for painting ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘Expand Medicaid’ in street in front of Capitol
By: John Zippert,Co-Publisher The City of Montgomery issued warrants for five participants in the Thursday, July 16, 2020, SOS protest on the steps of the State Capitol. The five were involved in spray painting the words “Black Lives Matter” and “Expand Medicaid” in the street in front of the State
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SPS Announces Plans For Remote Learning To Start School 2020-21 School Year - The Seattle Medium
Seattle Public Schools Superintendent Denise Juneau announced the district’s recommendation to use a remote learning model beginning with fall classes of the 2020-21 school year, and to continue the remote learning model until the risk of significant transmission of Covid-19 has decreased enough to
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Free virtual summer camp starts July 13! Weekly activities for ages 7-12! - Dallas Post Tribune
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If coronavirus cases continue spiking, SCS Supt. Ray says he cannot ‘in good faith’ open school buildings - TSDMemphis.com
If coronavirus hospitalizations and cases continue to surge, Memphis students will start the school year online, Supt. Joris Ray said Friday. “If we are where we are today, in good faith I could not open schools,” the Shelby County Schools leader told Chalkbeat. “And when I say open
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Academic Research Moms Group Launches Scholarship Fund In Partnership with The HBCU Foundation & Meharry Medical College | Dallas Weekly
The ARM Fund for Medical and Research Trainee Moms Sets $60,000 Goal In Support of Scholarships for post-undergraduate Research Moms A group of women scientists in medical research and academics aptly named Academic Research Moms, or ARM, decided to act in support of Black science and medical
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The True Plight of African-Americans.
White liberals and black politicians focus most of their attention on what the police do, but how relevant is that to the overall tragedy? According to Statista, this year, 172 whites and 88 blacks have died at the hands of police. To put police shootings in a bit of perspective, in Chicago alone
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Newswire : Black jobless rate was 15. 4 percent in June
by BlackmansStreet.Today The Black Unemployment rate June was 15.4 percent in June, down from 16.8 percent in May, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.The jobless rate for Black men, 20 and older, however, rose to 16.3 percent in June compared with 15.5 percent in May, BLS
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Memphis-based, HBCU Receives Largest Beneficial Endowment in the School’s 158-Year History
LeMoyne-Owen College, the only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Memphis, Tennessee, has been named the beneficiary of an endowment of $40 million, one of the largest gifts to any HBCU and the largest for the school in its 158-year history. The endowment was created from assets
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RCOE Chief Academic Officer, Cynthia Glover Woods, Appointed to State Board of Education - Black Voice News
On Monday, July 6, 2020, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced the appointment of inland area resident Cynthia Glover Woods of Eastvale to the State Board of Education (BOE). Highly respected and recognized for her educational acumen, Glover Woods has served as Chief Academic Officer with the
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Inglewood’s Choice to Quickly Close Elementary School Harms Children and Hurts Our Community - Los Angeles Sentinel
This is the path the Inglewood Unified School District (IUSD) took when it decided to close Warren Lane TK-7 Elementary School. The school serves predominantly African-American students in the Morningside Park community in the city of
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Emory University suspends SAT/ACT requirements for 2020-21 | Atlanta Daily World
Emory University Suspends SAT/ACT Requirements for 2020-21 Emory University will not require standardized tests for first-year applicants for the 2020-2021 academic year. “With this change, Emory will take this year as an opportunity to re-examine its selection process, to study indicators of
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OP-ED: We Can't Let This Moment Pass | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The last few months have made the truths of being Black in America clear to all. We have watched as a pandemic killed Black people at the rate of almost two and half times that of other Americans. Not from a mutation of the virus but from an underfunded system that too often
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