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Black Face Ain’t the Same As Being Part of the Black Race

October 28, 2016 Staff 0

BLACK FACE AIN’T THE SAME AS BEING PART OF THE BLACK RACE Prairie View A&M (PVAMU) freshman student, Brooke Merino Here in recent years, several White people have chosen to make increasingly popular again, an […]

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Gunmen Shoot Up Sign Commemorating Where Emmett Till’s Body Was Found

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

Emmett Till and Mamie Till Mobley, his mother. Gunmen recently fired bullets into a sign commemorating where Emmett Till’s beaten body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955 after Roy Bryant and his half […]

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Renowned White Racist Will Participate in U.S. Senate Debate at a Historically Black College

October 27, 2016 Staff 0

White supremacist David Duke has qualified for Louisiana’s U.S. Senate debate scheduled for November 2 at Dillard University, a Historically Black University based in New Orleans. Duke, former Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, […]

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90 Minutes of Fire: Trump, Clinton Trade Charges, Insults

October 10, 2016 Staff 0

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump listens to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the second presidential debate […]

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Meet Robert F. Smith — The Little-Known Black Billionaire Who Made a $20 Million Donation to the African American Smithsonian Museum

September 26, 2016 Staff 0

Back in 2013, when the founders of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture were seeking donors, they were encouraged to reach out to a man named Robert F. Smith. And that […]

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President Obama Opens Smithsonian’s African American Museum

September 26, 2016 Staff 0

President Barack Obama walks into the Grand Foyer with Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture, and first lady Michelle Obama, to speak at a reception for the museum […]

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Robinson Takes the Helm as Interim President of FAMU

September 20, 2016 Staff 0

Tallahassee Fl—Renowned scientist and research scholar Larry Robinson, Ph.D. is now the Interim President of Florida A&M University. On September 15, the FAMU Board […]

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U.S. to Provide Trauma-treatment Grants for Students in Baltimore, St. Louis and Chicago

September 20, 2016 Staff 0

(File photo by Michael B. Thomas) By Tawnell D. Hobbs, wsj.com Public school students traumatized by civil unrest in their communities can get professional help under new federal grants announced. The U.S. Education Department’s Promoting […]

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Racial Turmoil on College Campuses Cited For HBCU Enrollment Boom

September 19, 2016 Staff 0

Student protests at the University of Missouri last year captured the national spotlight and uncovered deep-seated racial tension on campus. But Mizzou was not alone. Several other campuses were also on edge—from the University of […]

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President Obama Nominates Muslim-American Attorney for Federal Bench

September 9, 2016 Staff 0

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has nominated a Washington, D.C., attorney for the federal bench. If confirmed, he would be the first Muslim American to serve as a federal judge. Obama nominated Abid Riaz […]

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