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Spelman College President Dr. Beverly Tatum believe that her college has better days ahead as she enters her final year there. After 13 years running…
CINCINNATI — Alumni of the country’s oldest historically black private university are committing money and other support to help their alma mater’s fight for survival amid the risk of accreditation loss and financial deficits and low enrollment. The alumni association of southwestern Ohio’s Wilberforce University, founded in 1856, says graduates have committed to raise $2 […]
This new generation of kids have taken their idea of “fun” to an entirely different level. Instead of Red Light, Green Light or Dodge ball, some teens have wandered into the dangerous realm of playing an online game where they set themselves on fire. The New York Daily News reports: A Kentucky boy who lit […]
The police have captured five men in connection to an Atlantic City casino heist in which $181,000 was stolen. The Chicago Tribune reports: Police have recovered much of the stolen cash, along with clothes used in the robbery, the New Jersey State Police said in a statement. Authorities said two masked men entered Caesars Atlantic […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A sharply divided House approved a Republican plan Wednesday to launch a campaign-season lawsuit against President Barack Obama, accusing him of exceeding the bounds of his constitutional authority. Obama and other Democrats derided the effort as a stunt aimed at tossing political red meat to conservative voters. Just a day before lawmakers […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama called on young African leaders to change traditional attitudes and beliefs that harm girls and women, adding that educating and making women financially literate is not enough. “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of […]
The Boys & Girls Clubs of America will launch a campaign on July 31st to offer safe and affordable after school programs to ethnic and low…
FedEx Corp. may be the largest drug dealer in the United States, according to a 27-page indictment handed down by the United States District Court on…
After turning in her son to police, the mother of alleged carjacker Jonathan Rosa, 19, turned down a reward offered to anyone who could provide…
Michele Roberts has watched basketball for as long as she can remember. It was an easy choice growing up in a home with one TV and two older brothers. When she saw an interview last year with an NBA player and noticed how passionately he talked about trying to improve his embattled union, she wanted […]
DETROIT (AP) — An 8-year-old boy who was lying in bed early Wednesday died after a bullet fired from outside went through a home’s wall and hit him, Detroit police said. The child was struck about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday at his east-side home, and was taken to a hospital, where he died, police said. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — When FBI agents and police officers fanned out across the country last month in a weeklong effort to rescue child sex trafficking victims, they pulled minors as young as 11 from hotel rooms, truck stops and homes. Among the 168 juveniles recovered was a population that child welfare advocates say especially concerns […]
