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NJ Teen Accepted Into All 8 Ivies and Stanford
Black girl magic strikes again, and this time our shining star is a New Jersey high school student who just did a clean sweep of her college applications, racking up acceptances from all eight Ivy League schools as well as Stanford, just for good measure. Ifeoma White-Thrope, who attends Morris Hills High School in Denville,…
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I’m Not Sure What’s Going On, but I Think Actress Mindy Kaling and Sen. Cory Booker Are Going on a Date?
I’m really confused right now, but I’m just going with it and writing this piece anyway. As it turns out, actress Mindy Kaling and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) may have a dinner date coming up after a strangely flirtatious Twitter exchange about the actress’s show. In a recent episode of The Mindy Project, Kaling’s character…
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Mock Slave Auction at NJ Elementary School Enrages Parents
You know, there’s a way to teach slavery to people, especially children, without involving fun, hand-drawn posters and role-playing in mock slave auctions. However, it seems as if a New Jersey school still hasn’t gotten the memo, and now it’s facing backlash from parents after a mock slave auction apparently took place in a fifth-grade…
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NJ Elementary School Faces Backlash Over Slave-Auction Poster Assignment
Yes, you read that right. A New Jersey elementary school is facing heat after attention was brought to a mandatory fifth-grade assignment that asked students to draw “examples of an event that would occur during [your] assigned colonial time period, including a poster for a lecture, speech, protest or slave auction.” The posters were seen…
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‘Ashy Knees’: Fans Taunt Black Student-Athlete at NJ High School Basketball Game
New video has been publicized from a New Jersey high school basketball game that occurred Jan. 27 between Dover High School and Jefferson High School, in which the Jefferson crowd shouted racially charged comments at a black Dover student-athlete during the pregame warmups, NJ.com reports. Jefferson Superintendent Patrick Tierney apologized Monday after students “allegedly made…
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12-Year-Old NJ Boy Crochets Every Day, Donates Items to Homeless Shelters, NICUs
A 12-year-old Jersey City, N.J., middle schooler is using his hobby to create amazing items that he then donates as a way to give back to his community. According to NBC New York, Jaheir Moore loves to crochet, and once he finishes his creations, he gives them away to area homeless shelters and neonatal intensive…
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NJ High School Investigating Hanging Black Dummy Found by Girls Basketball Team
Officials at the Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark, N.J., plan to investigate an incident in which a visiting girls basketball team found a black dummy hanging from its neck in a room they were assigned, the Courier News and Home Tribune reports. According to the report, when girls from the Plainfield High School…
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NJ Man Accused of Killing College Student Faces Charges in Murder of 2nd Woman
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 20, of Orange, N.J., has been charged with killing another woman after being charged with murder in the death of a New Jersey college student, CBS News reports. Acting Essex County, N.J., Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said Sunday that Wheeler-Weaver had been charged with murder in the death of 33-year-old Joanne Brown. Brown was…
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NJ State Trooper Suspended for Pulling Over Women to Ask Them Out, Covering It Up
A New Jersey state trooper was suspended without pay after an internal investigation revealed that he was pulling over women to ask them out on dates and then tampering with police records to cover it up, NJ.com reports. The state trooper, identified as 37-year-old Marquice Prather, was arrested Friday on charges of third-degree tampering with…