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As College Acceptances Arrive, Here’s How to Ask for More Financial Aid

A financial aid award will be based on tax returns and students’ household income. These four tips help you appeal for more financial aid.

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Bureau of Census reports

Bureau of Census report said Black unemployment averaged 9.9 per cent in 1971, compared with a 5.4 per cent rate for whites. The report also said that 31.8 per cent of all Black families were headed by a woman, and increase from the 28 per cent reported in 1970.

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Born in 1938 to a family in Monrovia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the current President of Liberia. Before becoming actively involved in politics, especially that of her native country, Johnson travelled to the United States to acquire higher education after graduating from the College of West

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(1934) W.E.B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation Within a Nation"

W.E.B Du Bois, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) through most of his life was a staunch integrationist. In 1934 however he advanced the argument that since integration would not happen in the nation any time soon, African Americans had to

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In December 2010, a college graduate who worked as a street vendor set himself on fire in the city of Sidi Bouzid to protest unemployment, corruption and the continued police state. A spate of other protests followed and spread throughout the country. As many as 10,000 people took to the streets of

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Expect long wait on calls about unemployment claims –

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National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (The Kerner Report), 1967

REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS

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(1980) Thomas Sowell, “Politics and Opportunity: Background”

In December 1980, shortly after former California Governor Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States, the Institute for Contemporary Studies, a California-based public policy institute (think tank) sponsored the Black Alternatives Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in San

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(1965) Lyndon B. Johnson, "To Fulfill These Rights"

On June 4, 1965 U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson gave the Commencement Address at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He used the occasion to remind his audience and the nation of the long history of racial discrimination and urged the American people to end racial discrimination as the most

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NAACP annual report

NAACP annual report said the unemployment of urban Blacks in 1971 was worse than at anytime since the great depression of the thirties. The report also said that more school desegregation occurred in 1971 than in any other year since the 1954 school decision.

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(1995) William Jefferson Clinton, “the Job of Ending Discrimination in This Counrt is Not Over”

In July 1995, President Bill Clinton delivered a major speech at the White House in defense of Affirmative Action programs across the nation at a time when many critics were calling for their repeal. He argued that such programs were still needed in a talk he officially titled, The Job of Ending

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The choice in America—death, coronavirus or the economy

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Senate Bill 867 and Senate Bill 868 – Revising AB 5 to Keep Freelancer Freedom

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Gary Declaration, National Black Political Convention, 1972

THE BLACK AGENDA

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The Crips also known as Original Crip Homies (OCH) are a primarily African-American gang. They were founded in Los Angeles, California in 1969 mainly by Raymond Washington and Stanley Williams. What was once a single alliance between two autonomous gangs is now a loosely connected network of

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Providing relief to cities must be priority to Congress –

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Former President Obama Slams Trump's COVID-19 Response As An "Absolute Chaotic Disaster"

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