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Why ‘Make America Great Again’ Is an Insult (and a Lie), Explained
Who is Krystal Lake? Krystal Lake is a 22-year-old New York City woman who recently received death threats after wearing a hat with the words “America was never great”—an obvious turn on Donald Trump’s “Make America great again” presidential campaign slogan. She’d also be my spirit animal if that position wasn’t already occupied by King…
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There’s More Than 1 Kind of Black: HBCUs Celebrate the Diversity of the Diaspora
It was definitely a major coup for Johnson C. Smith University, one of the nation’s HBCUs, to snag Oprah Winfrey as its commencement speaker. And she certainly delivered with down-to earth wisdom, her own inspirational stories and lessons from leaders from Martin Luther King Jr. to Maya Angelou. On a sunny Sunday morning, Winfrey told…
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Missing Ivy League Student Found Safe; Rented Apartment in Brooklyn, NY: Report
Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who’d been missing since May 5, was found Monday after she reactivated her bank card with her new address. According to the New York Daily News, Kidd had changed her cellphone and bank account numbers and pulled down her Facebook page before disappearing earlier this month. Kidd, a…
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Report: Missing Ivy League Sophomore Nayla Kidd Changed Bank Account and Cellphone Numbers Before She Disappeared
Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore who has been missing since leaving a May 5 dorm party, is now believed to have taken her Facebook page down and changed her cellphone and bank account numbers before her disappearance, police sources tiold the New York Daily News. “This is not Nayla,” her mother, La Creis…
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Morehouse College Honors 3 Valedictorians for 1st Time in History
Today, as the Morehouse College Class of 2016 celebrates its 132nd graduation ceremony, it will honor three young men who collectively have been named its valedictorian—including one young man who is not black. Liam R. Davis, Ian Niemeyer and Willie J. Thompson each graduated with a 4.0 grade point average from the nation’s largest liberal arts…
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How Dating Sites, Thanks to Princeton Review, Know More About You Than You Do
When I was growing up, there were always three places that my parents said were great for meeting your future girlfriend, wife or significant other: church, work and, of course, school. Our church attendance had waned in my late high school years, and I worked at a bagel bakery—so college seemed the mostly likely option…
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Ivy League Sophomore Nayla Kidd Missing for More Than a Week
A Columbia University student has not been seen since she was seen studying for her finals on the Ivy League campus in New York City on May 4, according to the Washington Post. Nayla Kidd, described as a “loving and sweet-spirited” young woman who taught a popular belly dancing class on campus, has been published…
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Donald Trump Can Become President. Here’s How
Political pundits said all last spring that Donald Trump wouldn’t get into the presidential race. Then he did. Throughout the fall, when he was leading in polls and insulting every constituency in America, those same talking heads thought Trump would implode. Then he didn’t. Finally, when Trump came in second to Ted Cruz at the…
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Where Are the Teachers of Color?
The U.S. Department of Education Friday reported “a lack of racial diversity among teachers at public elementary and secondary schools across the nation. Less than one in five U.S. public school teachers — 18 percent — are individuals of color, while approximately half —49 percent — of public elementary and secondary school students are individuals…