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A group of 40 students from Chicago got the opportunity to attend a prom hosted by two local non-profit organizations.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says freedom isn’t something that just happens, but must be nurtured and defended every single day. Obama says it’s important that people remember what a “miracle” America is and how lucky they are that others willingly took up arms generations ago to fight for independence. Obama commented at the […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Sheriff’s deputies found a large butcher knife with what appeared to be blood on it in an apartment where a Tennessee mother killed her four children by cutting their throats, court documents say. Shanynthia Gardner, 29, of Memphis, has been charged with four counts of first degree murder while committing aggravated […]
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — It took more than 40 years for Leonard Barefield to finally get to choose where he lived. The intellectually-disabled Texas native moved to a group home in Lubbock in September after he had first lived in near slavery conditions for more than three decades in a squalid house in Iowa and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump‘s tweet that featured Hillary Clinton and a six-pointed star atop a pile of money has also appeared on a white supremacist website. Trump’s account on Saturday tweeted the so-called “meme” — then deleted it and replaced it substituting a circle for the star symbol that resembles the Jewish Star of […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A firework that exploded when a 19-year-old unwittingly stepped on it Sunday in Central Park, seriously injuring his left foot, didn’t appear to be designed to intentionally hurt people, police officials said. The homemade gadget was like an “explosive experiment” that was probably designed to “make a large noise, maybe make […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Elie Wiesel was memorialized Sunday at a private service in Manhattan, as family and friends gathered and praised the endurance and eloquence of the Nobel Peace Prize winner and mourned him as one of the last firsthand witnesses to the Nazis’ atrocities. “This is really the double tragedy of it, not […]
You spent the winter working hard. You exercised consistently. You ate healthy foods and watched your portion sizes. You greeted summer with energy and a toned, healthy body. Don’t give in to temptation! Summer brings relaxation and fun, but it can be cruel when it comes to fitness. Summer is an easy time to overindulge—ice […]
All the graduates of a Bronx high school are going to college. The principal credits full community involvement.
As Black people, we are expected to consume these personal, violent attacks like we digest cake. We are told that we cannot act if someone decides to be ruthless, violent and trifling. As violence begets violence against us, we are continually told and showed that it is not fine to simply be.
Ivory Toldson is leaving his post as executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs. Deputy Undersecretary of Education Kim Hunter Reed will serve as acting executive director.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has begun formally vetting prospective vice presidential picks. The New York billionaire is considering former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, among what he previously described as a short list of possible running mates. Their inclusion was confirmed by people with direct […]
