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Apple and Thurgood Marshall College Fund Build Tech Pipeline for HBCU Scholars
Apple Inc. and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund have partnered to build a pipeline for African-American students into the world’s largest information technology company, with a new internship effort called the Apple HBCU Scholars Program. This year, 31 students from HBCUs will each be awarded $25,000 during their senior year of study. They will also participate…
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2 ‘White Supremacists’ Charged in Alleged Plan to Attack Synagogues and Black Churches
Two men described as white supremacists have been charged in Virginia with attempting to illegally buy weapons and explosives in a plot to attack synagogues and black churches, the Associated Press reports. According to the report, Robert C. Doyle and Ronald Beasley Chaney III tried to buy an automatic weapon, explosives and a pistol with…
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Students and Professors at Mo. School of Journalism Say They Played a Role in Calling Out the Racist Climate on Campus
Columnists Call Football Team’s Threatened Strike Historic “I have lived in Columbia and been at the university for almost 18 years,” Cynthia Frisby, an associate professor in the Missouri School of Journalism, wrote in a Facebook posting reprinted Sunday in Missourian, which serves the University of Missouri-Columbia. “During this time, I have been called the n-word…
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Conn. Teacher Fired After Yanking Chair From Underneath a Student
A Connecticut middle school teacher was fired and could face charges after being caught on video violently pulling a chair from underneath a student, sending the child to the floor, WFSB reports. A criminal investigation was launched against David Pfaff, who taught science at Bailey Middle School in West Haven, after a student shot cellphone…
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Playwright Reacts to the White Casting of MLK in The Mountaintop
“I remember he had the prettiest skin I had ever seen. Flawless. So chocolate you could see yourself reflected in it,” Carrie Hall, my mother, recounted wistfully. On March 28, 1968, she had caught a glimpse of Martin Luther King Jr. when he came to Memphis, Tenn., to lead a march for sanitation workers. It…
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Ben Carson Swings Back at Media Amid Background Probe
Tales of West Point Offer, Violent Past Challenged Ben Carson received a one-two punch from news media outlets on Friday, with CNN and Politico challenging parts of his biography. But as the day progressed, Politico’s big story — that the Republican presidential candidate had admitted to fabricating a scholarship offer from West Point — was…
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Hillary Crosley Coker Is A Writing Ass Chick We Love
Hillary Crosley Coker writes for Jezebel, founded Parlor Magazine, and is the best person to know if you ever need to find “Hmm. That really wasn’t all that bad. I’ve had worse tacos” tacos in SoHo. And since I take taco recommendations quite seriously, this is more than enough for her to qualify as a Writing Ass Chick…
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Instagram Celebrates Everyday Women With Its Amazing #MyStory Initiative
On Monday, over 250 people attended Instagram’s launch of #MyStory, a celebration of women on the social media platform. Every day, women use Instagram to share their visual stories. In the process, they are building audiences and leading communities all over the world. #MyStory seeks to draw attention to these women—artists and activists, scientists and…
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President Obama Says Black Lives Matter 'Raises Legitimate Issue'
Group “Raises Legitimate Issue,” President Says at Forum In contrast to Fox News commentators who this week compared the Black Lives Matter movement to Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, President Obama said Thursday that the movement “had given voice to the anger and discontent over policing and incarceration that has long been a fact…
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Some Say There’s Nothing Funny About Donald Trump Hosting SNL
Latinos See Invitation as “A Big ‘[Expletive] You’ “ Latino groups are voicing outrage at NBC for asking Donald Trump to host “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 7, saying that if he had insulted other groups as he has Mexicans, no such invitation would be extended. “What if all of the Latino cast members all…