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Revisiting the pros and cons of school choice

'Why would a parent have a child in a school district that is not serving their kid’s needs?'

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June 19 is a commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States, marking the day enslaved people in Texas were finally freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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Black Investors Take Note: Reddit Rebellion Rescues GameStop Stock | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The band of amateur day traders that interact with each other on the Reddit page WallStreetBets, encouraged whoever was listening to buy shares of the flailing GameStop, AMC, Macy’s and Koss stocks. Big investors, often in the form of hedge funds, frequently bet against struggling

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Congressional Black Caucus Gathering To Be Virtual

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc. has announced that it will deliver its Annual Legislative Conference completely online later this

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Paul Bustill Robeson

Paul Bustill Robeson was born in

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PHOTOS: Joyful Juneteenth marchers brave D.C rain as America enters a civil rights summer

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‘Equity Now’ on WTMP highlights recovery in St. Pete’s post-COVID-19 economy

The program is hosted by Carl Lavender, chief equity officer at Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg (FHSP), and is one of many ways FHSP is addressing community needs and

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Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1899- )

Arriving in Albuquerque, New Mexico Territory, in 1898, Mrs. Tabytha Watson began the organization of a Baptist church with prayer meetings which included her two children, in her home. By the following year the church was named Mt. Olive Baptist and members raised $135 to purchase a lot at 510

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In the past few months, the topic of mental health became a common one as many people have experienced new levels of stress and

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What the statistics show about police shootings and public safety

… the murder victims being African Americans. During the 20 … more than 10,000 African American lives potentially were spared. … reign of terror against African Americans and other minorities, Commissioner … s approval rating among African Americans was more than …

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A Study Shows Uber and Lyft Charge More For Rides To Non-White Areas

A recent study shows the algorithm used by ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft may discriminate against customers taking trips to or from predominantly non-white

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‘Do you think Juneteenth should be a national holiday?’

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President Trump Tweets Out White Power Message, Black Republican Senator Tim Scott Expresses Dismay

In yet another social media moment invoking race in America, President Donald Trump retweeted a video of a supporter heard yelling, “White

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Congress Stalls on Policing Overhaul, Despite Public Outcry

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is hitting an impasse on policing legislation, as Senate Democrats on Tuesday opposed a Republican proposal as inadequate, leaving the parties to decide whether to take on the hard job of negotiating a compromise or walk away despite public outcry over the killings of

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Divided House committee OK's $450m DFL plan targeted at 'ending systemic racism' in MN

… establish an African American Advisory Committee to establish grants for African American cultural and … African American students using retired African American teachers and administrators; and $10 million for African American …

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Young, Coleman A. (1918-1997)

Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Coleman Young arrived in Detroit, Michigan with his family when he was five. The Colemans settled in the working class neighborhood of Black Bottom (East Detroit), where his father operated a dry cleaning business and his mother was a schoolteacher. Early in his life

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Washington, Booker Taliaferro

Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856–1915, American educator, b. Franklin co., Va. Washington was born into slavery his mother was a mulatto slave on a plantation, his father a white man whom he never knew. After the Civil War, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines in Malden, W.Va., and

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The Justice System: Black Celebrities Who Have Been to Prison | BlackDoctor.org - Where Wellness & Culture Connect

According to the International Centre for Prison Studies in 2015, over 6.7 million individuals1) were under some form of correctional control in the United States, including 2.2 million incarcerated in federal, state, or local prisons and jails. The U.S. is a world leader in its rate of

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Edward Mitchell Bannister wins a bronze medal for his painting Under the Oaks at

Edward Mitchell Bannister wins a bronze medal for his painting Under the Oaks at the American Centennial Exposition, in Philadelphia. The award will cause controversy among whites who think African Americans incapable of artistic excellence.

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DePriest, Oscar (1871-1951)

A child of the early post-reconstruction south, Oscar DePriest was born in Florence, Alabama on March 9, 1871. In 1878 his family moved to Salina, Kansas. Sometime in the late 1880s DePriest moved to Chicago, Illinois where he found work as a house painter and decorator. DePriest created his own

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Booker Washington in Seattle, 1913

An unusual incidence of interracial solidarity between blacks and Asian Americans occurred during Booker T. Washington’s visit to Seattle. In March 1913, Washington embarked on a national speaking tour in order to raise money for Tuskegee Institute, the chronically underfunded “Normal and

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The Infodemic: Fewer African Americans Able to Telework During COVID-19 Lockdowns

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The little-known story of how slavery infiltrated California and the American west

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Reed, Frankie A. (1954- )

Frankie Annette Reed is a career Foreign Service officer who has held a variety of diplomatic postings in Europe, Africa, and Pacific Island nations. Between 2011 and 2013, she served as concurrent Ambassador to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of

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