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AKAs to Present Over $1 Million to HBCUs During Black History Month

January 30, 2019 Staff 0

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA), in partnership with the Educational Advancement Foundation (EAF) has established  the AKA-HBCU Endowment Fund. The fund was created on behalf of the nation’s oldest historically African-American sorority in an […]

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Kamala Harris Kicks Off Presidential Campaign: ‘America, We Are Better Than This’

January 27, 2019 Staff 0

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said that those in power are trying to turn people against each other, which she says is “not our America.” Harris, a first-term U.S. senator from California who recently announced […]

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President Announces End to Shutdown

January 27, 2019 Staff 0

The deal includes no money for his border wall.  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Correspondent The longest government shutdown in American history is over – and President Donald Trump did not get his Wall. […]

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Civil Rights Museum Re-offers Honor to Angela Davis

January 27, 2019 Staff 0

BIRMINGHAM – An Alabama civil rights museum reversed course after a public outcry and reinstated a human rights award to activist Angela Davis that it had previously rescinded. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute said in […]

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How EBONY Chronicled the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 22, 2019 admin 0

By Jessica Bennett  / January 14, 2018 Had he lived, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have turned 89 on Jan. 15. Today, we celebrate his life and legacy with cover images made available through the EBONY […]

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Andrew Gillum, as he mulls future political plans, heads to Harvard

January 18, 2019 admin 0

By Elizabeth Koh @ www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2019/01/18/andrew-gillum-as-he-mulls-future-political-plans-heads-to-harvard/ The former Tallahassee mayor, selected for a spring fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, will help lead a not-for-credit study group during his time at the university. Andrew Gillum, the former Tallahassee […]

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Long Time PE Coach Selected as Finalist for Duval Teacher of the Year

January 17, 2019 admin 0

That was the best day ever,” said Nakiesha Tinsley as she reflected on the day she found out that she was a Duval County Teacher of the Year finalist. The health and physical education teacher […]

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Florida Pardons the Groveland Four: Black Men Wrongly Convicted of Raping White Teenager in 1949

January 14, 2019 Staff 0

  One of the first act of Florida’s new Governor Ron DeSantis and the state’s three-member Cabinet was to grant posthumous pardons to four Black men accused of raping a white woman in 1949 in […]

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Miami Honors Student Files Lawsuit After Being Falsely Accused of Cheating on Her SATs

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

18-year old Kamilah Campbell Miami, FL — Kamilah Campbell, an 18-year old senior high school student, says her SAT results were invalidated after she was falsely accused of cheating – allegedly because she had high […]

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All Four Living Former Presidents Contradict Trump’s Claim That They Support Border Wall

January 8, 2019 Staff 0

President Donald Trump (WhiteHouse.gov) Trump falsely boasted that “some of them have told me that we should have done it.” By Marina Fang, Huffington Post All four living former presidents deny telling Donald Trump that they […]

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