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Black 2nd-Graders at L.A. Elementary School Get Math Homework With a Word Problem About Slavery
Parents of students at Windsor Hills Elementary School in Los Angeles are outraged after second-graders at the school received a math homework assignment last week that contained a word problem with racial undertones. NBC News reports that students received the following word problem as part of their math homework: The master needed 192 slaves to…
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Al Jarreau, a Unique Musical Stylist, Dead at 76
Renowned for his unique vocal style and musical expressiveness, Al Jarreau died Sunday, Feb. 12, at the age of 76, just a week after being admitted to the hospital for exhaustion. The seven-time Grammy Award winner was the second vocalist in music history to receive the coveted award in three categories: jazz, pop and R&B.…
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Betsy DeVos Visits Howard U in 1st Act as Education Secretary; Many Skeptical
In her very first meeting in her new gig, embattled Education Secretary Betsy DeVos visited Howard University on Thursday to meet with university leaders. The meeting at the historically black university, founded in 1867, was one where she was welcomed—at least by the administration—unlike at the Washington, D.C., public school where she was denied entrance…
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Trump Called Out on Lack of Diversity
“In his first two weeks, President Trump has sought to project the image of a new leader moving quickly to enact his agenda,” David Nakamura and Abby Phillip reported Sunday for the Washington Post. “He has surrounded himself in photo ops with his most trusted senior aides as he signs a flurry of executive orders,…
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Trump Threatens to Take Federal Funding From UC Berkeley, but Can He Do That?
After University of California, Berkeley officials canceled a scheduled appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos this week amid on-campus and online protests, President Donald Trump took to his Twitter account to threaten the university with the loss of federal funding for not allowing free speech. But is that something that is really within his power to do?…
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Birthing My Half-Black, Half-Pakistani, Full-Muslim Son in the Era of Trump
I went into labor 30 minutes after Donald Trump’s election night speech. I have the worries that any new mother would have about raising a child in the era of Trump, where ugliness is out in the open and civility no longer exists. My son was born pink. Not mocha, like his daddy. I really…
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Everything I Know About Black History I Learned in the Middle Room
In 1952 my grandfather built a house for his wife and six children in a small South Carolina town. The house had four bedrooms, one bathroom, a dining room and a living room you could enter only if you were dressed in your Sunday best or entertaining company or if somebody had died. After my…
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Some Journalists Feel Trump Ban Personally
Mohammed Al-Rawi’s passion for computers carried him through the war in Iraq all the way to the shores of California,” Marjorie Miller wrote in 2010 for a Fourth of July story in the Los Angeles Times.“His fluency in Windows and in English landed him a job with journalists, put him in the path of multiple…
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Today Hour 3: Kelly in; Roker, Hall Out
NBC intends to launch a new daytime show featuring former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, displacing black journalists Tamron Hall and Al Roker from the third hour of the “Today” show, according to reports Friday .Hall’s contract expires in February. That the contract of fellow black journalist Joy Reid, host of the weekend “AM Joy”…