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  • How to Close the ‘Homework Gap’ in the Digital Divide That’s Holding Back Our Kids

    When Xerox CEO Ursula Burns steps down from her position later this year, it will mark the end of having an African-American woman leading a Fortune 500 company as its chief executive officer. Burns, in retelling the story of her rise to success, acknowledges that her mother “knew that education was [her] way up and…

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  • Black Iris Project: Telling African-American Stories Through Ballet

    “Diversity doesn’t stop with people onstage,” says Jeremy McQueen, a dancer, choreographer and educator. “We need black stories in classical ballet. “Don Quixote, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty are great, but we need stories that will resonate in my spirit and reflect my cultural background.” McQueen has taken a big step toward that goal by launching…

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  • Congresswoman Mia Love Ditches GOP Convention Next Month

    In what surely is a check against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (though she will not admit it), Utah Rep. Mia Love said she will not be attending the party’s convention next month, and will instead visit Israel with a congressional delegation. Love, the very first African-American Republican woman ever elected to Congress, and who was…

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  • President Obama: 12,000 Inmates to Receive Pell Grants for College Study

    Even though Congress banned providing financial aid to prisoners in 1994, as many as 12,000 prison inmates will be able to use federal Pell Grants to finance college classes next month, the White House announced Friday. The $30 million Second Chance Pell Grant pilot program, announced by President Barack Obama, will be available to inmates…

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  • Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Most Likely Created by a Slave

    For 150 years, the story of how Jack Daniel’s whiskey came to be is that a man named Dan Call taught young Jack how to run his still. But the truth, like the truth of America, is a bit more complicated. And as is often true in America, that complication involves that most peculiar institution.…

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  • Wannabe Tulsa, Okla., Deputy Who Killed Unarmed Black Man: ‘I’ve Been Condemned’

    The volunteer Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy who killed an unarmed black man last year said he’d “pretty much been condemned,” and says he doesn’t expect to survive his four-year jail sentence. Robert Bates, 74, told NBC News from jail that shooting Eric Harris during an April 2, 2015, sting operation in Tulsa, Okla., was a “horrible…

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  • Philadelphia Mother Charged With Murder in Shooting Death of 4-Year-Old 

    The mother of a 4-year-old girl who shot and killed herself inside her home has been charged with third-degree murder, according to ABC 6 Philadelphia. Shakeia Holmes, 25, of North Philadelphia is now in jail, and an arrest warrant for her boyfriend, Demetrius Williams, has been issued. He is facing involuntary manslaughter charges. Police say the…

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  • 72-Year-Old NH Woman Drops Defamation Lawsuit Against Bill Cosby

    A 72-year-old New Hampshire woman who said that Bill Cosby raped her in 1965 when she worked as a secretary at a Los Angeles talent agency withdrew her defamation lawsuit against the comedian Friday, reports NBC 10 News Philadelphia. Kristina Ruehli withdrew her civil motion a day after a federal judge allowed that the case…

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  • Seahawks Backup QB Arrested for Menacing Wife With Gun

    The NFL and domestic violence still have a long way to go. On Friday morning, backup Seattle Seahawks quarterback Tarvaris Jackson, 33, was arrested in Kissimmee, Fla., for allegedly pointing a loaded gun at his wife and threatening to kill her, according to local NBC station WESH. According to police reports, Jackson’s wife tried to defend herself…

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  • Butt-Naked in Bed: Kanye West Features ‘Famous’ Nude Celebrities in New Video

    Say what you want about him—genius or jackass—but Yeezus has done it again. Kanye West’s new video, “Famous,” showing him with naked celebrities—ones he claims are the actual people—all together in one long bed has once again put his name in the mouths of the masses. West debuted the video at Los Angeles’ Forum theater Friday,…

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