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Emotions Run High as Confederate Flag Comes Down at SC Statehouse
Networks Go Live for South Carolina’s Historic Move “At 10:10 a.m. Friday, the sun hit the east side of a Civil War monument at the Statehouse. The Confederate battle flag rustled in the wind above 10,000 people gathered to watch it come down,” Christina Elmore and Deanna Pan reported Friday for the Post and Courier…
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NYC 8th-Grade Fight Club Assaults 1st-Grader
Latoya Gore, a New York City mother, has filed paperwork in court to get the city’s Department of Education to release video footage that shows a bunch of eighth-graders assaulting her 7-year-old daughter, the New York Daily News reports. Gore says that when her daughter, Taniya Jules, defied the girls’ orders by not joining a…
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Journey of You: Marshawn Evans' Rise to 'Godfidence'
Marshawn Evans Daniels calls herself a “reinvention strategist” for good reason. She has reinvented herself a thousand times over. International baton-twirling champion. Lawyer. Runner-up in the Miss America competition. Contestant on The Apprentice. Public-speaking coach. And so on and so on. For the past several years, through several business ventures under her ME Unlimited consulting…
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Journey of You: Behind the Scenes with the Carol's Daughter founder, Lisa Price
Lisa Price is unapologetic about the growth of her beauty brand, Carol’s Daughter. After the Carol’s Daughter retail division sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closed five of its stores last year, many customers were confused about the state of the business. Its focus, Price says, had turned from selling out of its own stores…
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Journey of You: Hill Harper – Looking Back While Moving Forward
For years, fans of Hill Harper were used to seeing him as a medical examiner-turned-detective on CSI: NY. Often referred to as “Doc” by his TV show colleagues, that role of a medical professional isn’t too far from his family’s real-life story. Both sides of Harper’s family have medical backgrounds. His maternal grandfather, Doc Hill,…
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