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Stephen King, Courtney B. Vance and Gloria Reuben Featured in Tuesday’s Season Premiere of Finding Your Roots With Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking series African American Lives (2006) and through the first season of Finding Your Roots (2012), noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Tomorrow, in the second-season premiere of Finding Your Roots With…
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Judge Faith Is Coming to a Television Near You
There’s a new judge set to rule, and her name is Faith Jenkins. Her show, Judge Faith, follows a long history of diversity in reality courtroom series. The popular shows have blazed trails by having black men and women at the forefront. Though blacks make up 6-8 percent of all judges in the American legal system,…
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My Sister’s Convicted Killer Was Innocent; 23 Years Later, I’m Still Waiting for Justice
When Henry McCollum and Leon Brown, two brothers, walked out of prison after being wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl 30 years ago, everyone applauded. Everyone, it seems, except for me: My thoughts were with the family of that little girl, Sabrina Buie. I know how it feels to be Sabrina’s…
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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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How HBCUs Respond to a Call for Inclusion of LGBT Students
For many who choose to attend an HBCU, the decision is about far more than just academics. Since the first HBCUs opened their doors in the years before the Civil War, they have offered black students an opportunity to pursue advanced studies in a space they can be certain will be supportive, welcoming and inclusive.…
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Courtney B. Vance Discovers a Rebellious Slave in His Family Tree
In their book Friends: A Love Story, actor Courtney B. Vance and his actress wife, Angela Bassett, laid bare their seven-year struggle with infertility, along with their unwavering faith that they would someday conceive a child. They ultimately gave birth to twins, Bronwyn Golden and Slater Josiah, with the help of a surrogate. Through his…
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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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