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HistoryMakers, Like Roz Abrams, Inspire Students With Stories of Achievement
When Roz Abrams started out in the early 1980s as a young broadcast journalist, she was mentored by the likes of pioneer Belva Davis, the first black television and radio journalist on the West Coast. As a result, Abrams went on to scale great heights in the broadcast field, including working at CNN as a…
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Know Your Rights When Confronted by the Police
In recent months we’ve witnessed the arrests and deaths of citizens after disturbing interactions with police. In one of those cases, a bystander captured on video an incident during which Eric Garner died after being put in a choke hold on a sidewalk in New York City’s Staten Island. And just last weekend Danièle Watts, a…
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White House Intruders: Remembering Miriam Carey and How She Died
On Saturday a 19-year-old New Jersey man was arrested after he tried to drive past a barricaded entrance to the White House and refused to stop. And in an unprecedented security breach Friday evening, a 42-year-old Texas man jumped a fence and ran to the North Portico and entered the White House through an unlocked…
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Family: Repeated Bullying Drove Fla. Teen to Suicide
Shaniqua Hawkins said her family moved from New York to Florida because her son could no longer endure repeated attacks by bullies, who teased him relentlessly about his size, according to Orlando’s WESH 2. Last week Lamar Hawkins III, 14, had had enough. The Greenwood Lakes Middle School student took his father’s gun to school…
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3-Day Ebola Lockdown in Sierra Leone Incites Fear, Conflict
Despite fear and loathing among some residents, officials in Sierra Leone said Saturday that most of the nation’s 6 million people were complying with an unprecedented three-day lockdown to help combat the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, the Associated Press reports. Some people ran away from their homes, while others clashed with health workers…
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Ohio Man Lands in Jail Over $4 Pizza Dispute
A 30-year-old Dayton, Ohio, man out looking for a late-night snack instead found himself locked up after he allegedly threatened workers over a $4 pizza order, WHIO reports. The man, Keith Stark Jr., 30, allegedly threatened to shoot the owner of Cousin Vinny’s Pizza at 4:15 a.m. Saturday after he became upset about the order,…
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Obama Backs Secret Service Amid 2 Security Breaches
President Barack Obama expressed confidence in the agency charged with keeping him and his family safe Saturday after a man with a knife climbed a fence and made it into the White House before being apprehended, the Associated Press reports. It was the second such security breach in as many days. “The president has full…
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White House Intrusion Again Shines Spotlight on Secret Service
The Secret Service came under new scrutiny Friday after a man scaled the White House fence and made it all the way into the building before he was apprehended, the Associated Press reports. President Barack Obama and his daughters had just left Friday evening when the man climbed the north fence, dashed across the lawn…
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Sierra Leone on 3-Day Lockdown in Ebola Battle
In what is being called one of the most sweeping lockdowns against a contagion since the Middle Ages, Sierra Leone on Friday began confining an estimated 6 million people to their homes in hopes of stopping the spread of Ebola in the West African nation, USA Today reports. During the lockdown, thousands of health workers…
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Police: Killer Thought 9-Year-Old Was Lookout
Nine-year-old Antonio Smith stormed out of his family’s apartment on Chicago’s South Side in a fit of anger when his mother refused to get him a cupcake on a warm summer day in August, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. That’s when he encountered a group of men driving around in two vehicles in search of…
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