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Texas High School Cheerleader Fighting to Wear Her Hair How She Wants
Kemirah Jn-Marie, 15, is a flyer on the Ross S. Sterling High School varsity cheerleading team and is a victim of discrimination by her coach with regards to her hair, according to an ABC report. She had braids done this year to meet cheerleading requirements that hair must be pulled back in a secure ponytail…
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Young Girl Finds and Returns Stolen Olympic Gold Medal
In June, Olympic canoe racer Joe Jacobi’s car was broken into and someone stole the gold medal that he won at the 1992 Olympics in Spain, WSB-TV reports. But fortunately for him, a 7-year-old girl in Atlanta by the name of Chloe Smith found the medal in a pile of trash while out walking with her dad. According…
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Ohio Woman Shot and Killed After Car Accident Caused by Shooter
Deborah Pearl, 53, was on her way to work Saturday morning when her car was hit by a Jeep that ran through a red light at an intersection in Solon, Ohio, Cleveland 19 News reports. What followed the accident was even worse. After his vehicle had flipped over several times, Matthew Ryan Desha, 29, emerged from it holding…
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10 Tips for Postpartum Survival
It’s common knowledge that pregnancy is divided into three trimesters, but no one tells you about the fourth period: life with a newborn. Some people actually refer to the early postpartum period as the fourth trimester, and it’s rough, especially for first-time parents. I’m 17 days into parenthood at the time of writing this, and…
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#MelaninOnFleek: Afropunk 2016
Afropunk is where melanin and metal music collide. The two-day festival of blackness that is Afropunk took place Saturday and Sunday at Commodore Barry Park in Brooklyn, N.Y. In its 11th year, the event continues to create a space for left-of-center musicians and their fans to, well, just be. This year’s acts included CeeLo Green, George Clinton, Ice…
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How Censoring Facebook Affects the Fight for Black Lives
Earlier this month, Baltimore County police tried to serve a black mother with an arrest warrant for failing to appear in court for a traffic violation. But the picture many saw told only one side of the story. Police killed the woman, Korryn Gaines, and her 5-year-old son was wounded in the altercation. She had…
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3 Inmates Escape From La. Detention Center
On Saturday, a little after 10 p.m., three inmates—Willie E. Ethridge, 34; Michael Elliot, 24; and Walshea Mitchell, 35—escaped from Dorm B of a detention center in Natchitoches Parish, La., and then jumped over two rolls of razor-wire fence, according to USA Today. The inmates were unarmed at the time of their escape, but the…
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4 Questions Parents Should Ask a Principal or Teacher to Ensure Their Child’s Success
Failing schools that service low-income black kids will continue to get away with egregious levels of educational neglect because they know no one will hold them accountable, unless parents are savvy enough to demand what their children deserve. Here are four questions that focus on school culture, instruction and assessment that parents should ask their…
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Aisha Hinds Cast as Harriet Tubman on Undergound
Before Harriet Tubman comes through on your favorite $20 back, the American icon, born Araminta Ross, will be featured in the highly anticipated second season of Underground, WGN America’s most watched original program ever, with 3 million total weekly viewers. The actress who will be playing Tubman, Aisha Hinds, is best-known for playing Fannie Lou Hamer in…
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Rochester, NY, Teen Gives Sneakers to Peers for Start of School
Tennies, sneakers, runners. Whatever you call them, kids today are into them. And even if they’re not, everyone wants to start school in a fresh pair of kicks. A Rochester, N.Y., seventh-grader is giving back to his community by giving just those items away before the start of the school year. Zaire Downs said that…
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