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Unions advance proposal for school reopening - The Bay State Banner
The state’s three largest teachers unions are calling on the state to use a phased approach to resuming classes in September, allowing students to return to school buildings only after city and state authorities guarantee appropriate physical distancing is possible, school buildings have in place
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Source: The Bay State Banner
Morehouse School of Medicine Joins New Effort to Battle COVID-19
A new $40 million initiative aimed at fighting the coronavirus pandemic among ethnic minorities and rural and socially vulnerable communities involves a newly created partnership between the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health and the Morehouse School of Medicine
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Source: The Washington Informer
UC System Picks First Black President
(CALMATTERS) After a six-month search, the University of California Regents picked Michael V. Drake as the new head of the school system, the first Black president in the system’s history. Drake, the former president of Ohio State University and former chancellor of UC Irvine, succeeds Janet
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Source: The Sacramento Observer
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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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper
Newswire : Mississippi surrenders Confederate symbol from state flag
By: Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. A broad coalition
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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper
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COVID-19
As of July 1, 2020 at 10:00 AM Alabama had 38,442 confirmed cases of coronavirus with 947 deaths Greene County had 166 confirmed cases with 7 deaths; 9 more cases in a week Sumter Co. had 276 cases with 12 deaths Hale Co had 293 cases with 21 deaths
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Atlanta Entrepreneur, Clark Atlanta University Launch Scholarship Fund For Rayshard Brooks’ Children
Atlanta entrepreneur Aisha “Pinky” Cole teamed up with Clark Atlanta University to create a scholarship fund for Rayshard Brooks’ children.
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Meet School Board District 7 candidates
Dr. Ricardo Davis, Caprice Edmond, Corey Givens Jr, Dr. Sharon Jackson ST. PETERSBURG – Meet some of the candidates running for Pinellas School Board, District 7. The seat is being vacated by Rene Flowers, who is running for the Pinellas County Commission. District 7 encompasses most of south
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School board votes to continue remote learning for first 9 weeks - WS Chronicle
The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/FCS) Board of Education voted to continue remote learning for all students for at least the first nine weeks of the 2020-21 school year. The post School board votes to continue remote learning for first 9 weeks appeared first on WS Chronicle.
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Newswire: Breonna Taylor’s family claims no aid was offered after she was fatally shot
By: Stephanie Guerilus, The Grio Breonna Taylor’s family is not only holding the Louisville police responsible for her death but they are now alleging that medical aid wasn’t offered to the young woman after she was fatally shot eight times. The bombshell claim was made Sunday in a new 31-page
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Source: Greene County Democrat | Serving Greene County Like No Other Newspaper
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Two DPSCD Students Test Positive for the Coronavirus | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
Two students have been diagnosed with COVID-19 while taking summer classes in the Detroit Public Schools Community District. Detroit Public Schools were given the go-ahead to begin classes provided all … Continued
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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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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always
MPS recommends remote learning to start school year
Plan to be presented to school board Thursday On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Keith Posley recommended no in-person classes to start the 2020-2021 school year. MPS has outlined three instructional model scenarios and a three-phase return model that begins with
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Hampton U. to Follow Online Format in the Fall
Hampton University President William Harvey announced his school will follow a remote-classes format this fall after initially aiming to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, saying the situation "has changed drastically."
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Source: The Washington Informer
Newswire : Congress moves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act measure forward
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent The House Judiciary Committee has introduced the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act, the first-ever bold, comprehensive approach to hold police accountable, end racial profiling, change the law enforcement culture, empower communities, and
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New California rules mean most schools will start online - Black News Channel
By JOCELYN GECKER and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press/ BNC Contributor  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With the first day of school just weeks away in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out sweeping new rules Friday that all but ensure most of the state's K-12 schools serving 6.7 million students will not
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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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Milwaukee Public Schools reopening plan approved by Board of School Directors
Milwaukee Public Schools' (MPS) phased-in reopening recommendation for the 2020-21 school year was unanimously approved by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors. The Board, in a 7-2 vote, also approved to maintain the early and traditional start calendars for the school year. The phased-in
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Source: Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper – Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always
U.Va. Students Need Negative COVID-19 Test to Enroll in Fall
The University of Virginia reportedly has mandated that students looking to enroll for the fall semester must take a coronavirus test.
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Source: The Washington Informer
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Teens to be honored at drive-by parade for Plano Mayor’s Summer Internship Program on Monday - North Dallas Gazette
While the COVID-19 pandemic is preventing the traditional end-of-summer luncheon celebrating the Plano Mayor’s Summer Internship Program, a drive-by parade will take its place honoring the hard-working Plano teens who participated this extraordinary summer. The parade will be Monday, July 27, at 11
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Source: North Dallas Gazette
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This Woman Is Creatin Custom Dolls For Girls With Curly Hair
Yelitsa Jean-Charles is the founder of Healthy Root Dolls, a company that allows customers to create custom dolls for their young girls.
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Newswire: NASA announces Washington DC Headquarters will be named for Mary W. Jackson
By: tffhthewriter NASA engineer and mathematician Mary W. Jackson is finally getting her just due. On Wednesday (Jun 24) NASA announced plans to rename their headquarters located in Washington DC after the first Black female aerospace engineer Mary W. Jackson. Jackson, who was the agency’s first
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Federal judge arrested in ‘TSU riots’ speaks | Afram News
May 17, 1967 was a day Federal Judge Kenneth Hoyt will never forget. What started as a protest, ended with the death of a Houston police officer and hundreds of Texas Southern University students in jail.
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Honda and HBCUs Join Together to Combat the Pandemic | Dallas Weekly
At the end of March, nearly 250 students and coaches from 48 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were set to travel to California to compete for the national championship title in the 31st annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), Americas premier academic competition for
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Source: Dallas Weekly
COVID-19 Could Mean Better Pricing from Your College of Choice. Heres How to Ask - Milwaukee Community Journal
If your financial aid offer is lower than you had hoped, you don’t have to settle for paying more—especially if the pandemic and the subsequent downturn have hit you hard. Financial guru Eric Tyson, MBA, shares strategies parents can use to get a better price. Hoboken, NJ (July 2020)—COVID-19 has
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Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Honors Senior Thesis Projects Virtually
By Hayley Crandall In the age of social distancing rules and disease prevention guidelines, many organizations have been exploring the digital space as a means of holding events. Colleges certainly have not been an exception to these adventures. Milwaukee Institute of Art Design (MIAD) is holding
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Atlanta HBCUs to Continue Remote Learning for Fall Semester
The presidents of Morehouse and Spelman colleges along with leadership at Clark Atlanta University, citing a spike in COVID-19 cases in Atlanta, have decided that classes for the fall semester will be offered via remote learning. Meanwhile, no decisions have been made about the spring 2021
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Source: The Washington Informer
Black America speaks. America should listen.
Last night I was sitting in my living room and a convoy of trucks drove by my home filled with law enforcement and National Guard troops. I am a 59-year old African-American man and this brought back vivid childhood memories. On April 4, 1968, 18 days before my seventh birthday, I was in the middle
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A salute to the AKA AKAdemy Class of 2020
Due to the pandemic, the AKA AKAdemy Class of 2020 were not able to have their end of the year celebration, but the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Zeta Upsilon Omega Chapter and the men of Eta Rho Chapter of Omega Psi made sure each graduating student received a proper send-off. ST. PETERSBURG
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Worldwide Pediatric Experts Argue Schools Should Reopen | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
(The Center Square) – Several reports published in western countries worldwide argue that children should be returning to in-person classrooms in the fall. Reports by the top pediatric hospital in Canada and by a leading expert in the British government argue that schools should reopen with
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