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Cash-Strapped HBCUs Seek a Lifeline
When Grambling State University’s football team forfeited a game against Jackson State University last year, players thought they were locked in a singular battle with the administration. They presented administrators with a list of things they were fed up with, including a two-and-a-half-hour bus ride to play against their competitors. Further, they complained about dilapidated…
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CNN’s Don Lemon: Is ‘Thug’ a Racist Term?
Police officers in Omaha, Neb., rankled social media users last week when they released a video of a black toddler swearing as a warning about “the thug cycle” in America, prompting CNN’s Don Lemon to do some soul searching. During an appearance on OutFront Friday night, Lemon said the story had become “personal” and seized…
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War on Poverty: Deep Divide in Congress on How to Help
Bipartisan differences over dealing with issues of poverty were readily apparent on Wednesday, the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s declaration of a “war on poverty,” NPR reports. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) called Johnson’s effort a success. “The national poverty rate has gone down from 26 percent in 1967 to 16 percent in 2012,” she said,…
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109-Year-Old Black Arkansas Church Engaged in Preservation Battle
Centennial Baptist Church, a Gothic Revival-styled boarded up structure in Helena, Ark., has deep roots in the African-American community, NPR reports. But poverty, racial tensions, among other things in the Delta town, have made raising restoration funds difficult, the report says. Phyllis Hammonds, executive director of the foundation that owns Centennial, was baptized and married…
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Haiti: 4 Years After the Earthquake
Haitian President Michel Martelly called for residents to reflect Sunday on the devastating earthquake that swept through the small nation four years ago, killing tens of thousands and leaving scores of people homeless after it decimated buildings and houses, the Associated Press reports. The Haitian flag was flown at half-staff, and clubs were to remain closed.…
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Missing 7-Week-Old Memphis Girl: Mom Named as Suspect
Police suspended the search in Memphis, Tenn., for 7-week-old Aniston Walker Saturday evening, WMC-TV reports. However, the investigation into just what happened to the child remains open. The move follows a search for the child after her mother, Andrea Walker, 33, left Aniston at home Thursday with a 3-year-old when she took her 5-year-old son to…
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Nike Sued for $100,000,000 After Portland Pimp Delivers Beat Down With Jordans
Twenty-six-year-old Portland, Ore., pimp Sirgiorgiro Clardy says Nike should have placed a label in his Jordan shoes warning consumers that they could be used as a dangerous weapon, the Oregonian reports. That is why he filed a $100 million lawsuit this week against the athletic brand, charging that the shoe manufacturer is partially responsible for…
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Teleka Patrick: Police Expect to Release Details in Case of Missing Michigan Doctor
Updated: Sunday, Jan. 12, 1:28 p.m. ET: The social media world continues to raise questions about just what was going in the life of a missing Michigan doctor before she disappeared early last month. Wood TV reports that it has uncovered thousands of tweets apparently posted by Teleka Patrick, Kalamazoo, Mich., doctor, in the weeks leading…
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Bobbi Kristina Brown, Nick Gordon ‘Happily Married’
Bobbi Kristina Brown and Nick Gordon may have secretly married, the Daily News reports. The 20-year-old daughter of the late Whitney Houston on Thursday tweeted a photo of the couple’s wedding bands. “@nickdgordon #HappilyMarried SO#Inlove if you didn’t get it the first time that is,” she wrote in the picture of the couple’s hands. The…
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Detroit Councilman Apologizes for ‘Driving While Black’ Incident
Detroit Councilman George Cushingberry was back at work Friday and apologized to his colleagues for what he called a “driving while black incident,” the Detroit Free Press reports. He issued the apology after news broke Thursday that he was involved in a traffic stop involving alcohol and marijuana, the report says. “I wanted to say…
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