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Puff Daddy’s Howard Commencement Speech Ignites Debate
Sean Combs, who left Howard University in 1990 after only two years to pursue his dreams of music stardom, is scheduled to deliver the school’s commencement address this spring, interim Howard President Wayne Frederick announced Tuesday in a statement. Critics and supporters took to social media to decry and praise the decision. Opponents said the…
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Hometown Heroes: Common and Kanye Team Up to Create 1,000 Jobs for Chicago Youths
Rappers Common and Kanye West are giving back to their native city Chicago in a big way. The two, along with rapper Che “Rhymefest” Smith, are teaming up with the Chicago Urban League to create 1,000 year-round jobs for city youths, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The partnership, the Chicago Youth Jobs Collaborative, comes on the…
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SNL Alumna Maya Rudolph Returning to NBC With Variety Show
Saturday Night Live alumna Maya Rudolph is slated to return to NBC in May with an hour-long variety show special, featuring musical guest Janelle Monae, according to Shadow and Act. The Maya Rudolph Show will air at 10 p.m. on May 19 and will be an update of the classic variety show, offering music and…
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Family of Woman Killed at Detroit Officer’s Party Still Seeks Answers
The family of a 24-year-old woman killed by a bullet from an off-duty Detroit police officer’s gun while the two were were dancing wants the case reopened after prosecutors declined to press charges, the Huffington Post reports. Adaisha Miller attended a fish fry hosted by Officer Issac Parrish at his home in the city on…
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Harvard’s Hutchins Center Announces 2nd Class of Fellows
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University professor and director of the newly launched Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, on Tuesday announced the class of 23 students for the 2014-15 academic year. “We are delighted to welcome one of our most distinguished and diverse class of fellows of the…
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Analyzing American Democracy In the Age of Obama
The fifth annual Barack Obama and American Democracy conference will convene at Tufts University this week. Sponsored by the university’s Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, the conference draws a community of scholars, activists and policy experts to debate, analyze and discuss the Obama administration’s impact at the local, national and global level.…
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Black Men Are More Likely to Deal With Erectile Dysfunction—Here’s What to Do About It
Editor’s note: This is part 1 of the four-part series Keeping Black Men Healthy, in honor of National Minority Health Month. Read part 2 here. If you notice that you and your male sexual partner have started butting heads as bedtime draws near, it may be because he’s struggling to perform sexually but doesn’t want you…
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Are ‘a Whole Bunch of White People’ Adopting Black Kids? Here’s What’s More Important
Physically abused, ridiculed and constantly reminded that she was an outsider by the family that adopted her when she was a 5 years old, author and children’s advocate Stacey Patton says conversations about the complicated issues surrounding race and adoption are almost always dominated by the perspectives of clinicians, politicians, and parents. A black Alabama…
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Kids of Color Less Likely to Have Good Teachers
The Center for American Progress released a new report (pdf) on Friday indicating that low-income students of color are more likely to have not only less experienced teachers but also less effective ones, the Huffington Post reports. The organization analyzed evaluation scores of teachers in affluent and low-income districts in Louisiana and Massachusetts. According to American Progress,…
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