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Florida Passes Gun Bill That Restricts Rifle Sales and Arms Some Teachers

March 12, 2018 Staff 0

In response to a deadly Florida school shooting last month, the state’s Senate narrowly passed a bill that would create new restrictions on rifle sales and allow some teachers to carry guns in schools. The […]

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Hampton University Students Take to Social Media on Sexual Assault Incidents, Food and Lack of Campus Services

March 12, 2018 Staff 0

By Britni Danielle, essence.com Students at Hampton University, one of the nation’s oldest and most storied Historically Black institutions, are demanding changes at the 150 year old university. In the wake of a tense Feb. […]

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Simone Biles Starts Scholarship for Foster Kids

March 5, 2018 Staff 0

By Sarafina Wright, Washington Informer American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles recently began her new journey as a college student at the University of the People and she wants to help other foster […]

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Trump Administration Appoints Its First Minority Director to the Small Business Administration

February 26, 2018 Staff 0

by Adedamola Agboola Ashley Bell will take the reins of the Small Business Administration’s Southeast Region as its new director, the White House announced Monday. The Georgia native, who will be sworn in Monday, Feb. 26, […]

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High School Students Across Nation March for Gun Control

February 22, 2018 Staff 0

Tens of thousands of high school students across America were marked with an unexcused absence Wednesday, but everyone knew where they were. In the Washington area, high school students from DC. Public Schools and from public […]

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Florida House Approves Mary McLeod Bethune Statue to Replace Confederate in the U.S. Capitol

February 20, 2018 Staff 0

By a vote of 111-1 on Tuesday afternoon, February 20, 2018, the Florida House approved HB 139 to place a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune in U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The bill was signed by […]

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Jackson Elementary School in Utah, Named for Andrew Jackson, Votes to Rename Itself After Mary Jackson, NASA’s 1st Black Female Engineer

February 11, 2018 Staff 0

Mary Jackson, NASA’s first black female engineer(Photo: NASA Langley Research Center) by Marina Koren via theatlantic.com An elementary school in Utah has traded one Jackson for another in a change that many say was a […]

Education

PBS Documentary Examines History of HBCUs: ‘Tell Them We Are Rising’

February 11, 2018 Staff 0

by Tiffany Pennamon The vital role and relevance of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has been contested in contemporary times. Until recently, no central text or film documented the history of these institutions as […]

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Lena Horne Honored With A Stamp From the USPS

February 4, 2018 Staff 0

Lena Horne is remembered as an all-around entertainer, Hollywood actress, Grammy Award winning singer, and a Tony Award winning Broadway star.  But equally important to her legacy was a willingness to use fame as a […]

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Obama Foundation Launches New Career Page and Internship Application

February 4, 2018 Staff 0

THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL Center from the South West, showing how the Museum Building, Forum Building, and Library Building will surround a public plaza. The Center is oriented to the neighborhood just west across Stony Island […]

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