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President Obama Celebrates Diversity With Young Scientists at White House Science Fair
The lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the science, technology, engineering and math fields is not a secret—and the 2015 White House Science Fair’s main focus was on just that. The fair, held on Monday, included students from underrepresented backgrounds who could be the next generation of innovators. “We don’t want to just increase…
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Family of Black Teen Killed by Police Asks, ‘Why?’
That 18-year-old Brandon Jones was wrong when he broke into Parkwood Grocery in Cleveland last week is undeniable. However, his family is questioning the teen’s death after a responding police officer fatally shot him. “If he’s unarmed, and there’s two of you all and one of him, why is my baby dead?” Jones’ mother, Tanya…
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Texas A&M Corpus Christi Student Threatened With Lynching
She had just returned from spring break and was greeted with horrific threats and slurs. According to KRISTV, a black student at Texas A&M Corpus Christi found racial slurs and threats written all over her apartment, left there by individuals who apparently broke in while she was gone. A scrawl on one of the apartment…
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Jazz in the Gardens? More Like Jazz in a Stadium
For the 10th consecutive year, Miami Gardens, Fla., will draw in swarms of people like moths to a flame—or music heads to a festival—this weekend for the annual Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival, held at Sun Life Stadium and co-hosted by D.L. Hughley and Rickey Smiley. But before the festival boasted legendary names such…
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Retired Ark. Nurse Devotes Her Pension to Running Food Pantry
When most people retire, they gather up their retirement money and look forward to spending their days unwinding after years of work. Perhaps they take a cruise or move to Florida. But Charolette Tidwell has dedicated her pension funds toward running a food pantry where she feeds 7,000 people a month in her hometown of…
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Remains of NJ Mom Allegedly Slain by Husband Found in Md.
Authorities, guided by a GPS unit in her husband’s vehicle, have discovered the body of a New Jersey mother who went missing on New Year’s in Maryland, prosecutors said, according to the New York Daily News. Erica Crippen’s body was found tied up with electrical cord and duct tape and hidden beneath a pile of branches…
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Ratings for Empire’s Season Finale Break Record
Empire, the new “it” show on Fox, has succeeded in reeling in more viewers from week to week. For Wednesday night’s two-hour season 1 finale, the show broke all prior records, scoring on average some 16.7 million viewers, a rise of 12 percent from the 14.9 million watching last week’s episode, USA Today reported. According…
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College Catalog Shows Happy White Guys Finishing Before a Lagging Woman and a Black Man
The University of North Georgia is trying to make amends after a controversial course catalog stirred up some negative attention when an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter wrote about it. According to Raw Story, the university has “apologized” and will stop distributing a continuing-education catalog that shows two smiling white men in business suits (one with hands raised…
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Innocent, Deaf Ethiopian American Jailed for 6 Weeks With No Interpreter
Abreham Zemedagegehu was held in jail for six weeks in a Virginia prison without an interpreter and not knowing why he was being held in the first place, the Associated Press reports. It was alleged that Zemedagegehu, who is deaf, stole an iPad, which its owner later found. For that accusation he spent more than…
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Wall Street Journal Writer: Black Progress Was Faster ‘When Whites Were Still Lynching’
Black people in America progressed a lot better when lynchings were still occurring. Or at least that’s what Wall Street Journal editorial-board member Jason Riley said in a recent op-ed, Media Matters reported. In his column addressing the notorious racist chant on a bus by members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of…
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