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Student at Center of Howard University Financial Scandal Speaks Out Amid Campus Protests
As students at Howard University enter the second day of campuswide protests, the university’s board of trustees issued a statement moments before the immaculately dressed law student who has become a symbol of the administration’s mismanagement appeared with journalist Roland Martin and a very luxurious house plant to clear his name while everyone involved gulped…
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In the Spirit of Trying to Resurrect Her Advertisers, Fox News Host Apologizes to Parkland, Fla., Student. Hrmmm
Life sure comes at you fast on Holy Week, huh, Laura Ingraham? The Fox News host found herself in a bind after a tweet in which she accused David Hogg—one of the most prominent student-activists to emerge in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting—of whining about being rejected from some colleges he had…
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Hillary Clinton Was Paid $7,000 Less Than Snooki From Jersey Shore for a Speech at Rutgers University: Report
One would assume that losing the presidential election to the human equivalent of a tall white kitchen trash bag tinted orange from day-old grease would be the furthest from grace that Hillary Clinton could fall. Well, one would be wrong. According to a report at NJ.com, Clinton, who once commanded speaking fees of up to…
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3 Heroic British Schoolboys to Be Honored for Saving Man Attempting to Commit Suicide
Three black British schoolboys will soon receive a national service award for their role in helping save the life of a man who tried to kill himself by jumping off a bridge in Waltham Cross, England, last year. As the Hertfordshire Mercury reports, Devonte Cafferkey, 13, and Sammy Farah, 14, spotted a man sitting with…
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#StephonClark: Funeral Service Wrought With Emotion Honors a Young Man Taken Too Soon
On Thursday the intersection of 47th Avenue and 44th Street in Sacramento, Calif., was filled with cars as family, friends and members of the community flocked to Bayside of South Sacramento Church to pay their last respects to 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was gunned down by police officers March 18. It was like watching crowds…
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Brother of Accused Parkland, Fla., High School Shooter Pleads Guilty to Trespassing at the School
Zachary Cruz, the brother of Parkland, Fla., school shooter Nikolas Cruz, pleaded guilty Thursday to trespassing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the scene of his brother’s alleged horrific crime. Zachary Cruz pleaded no contest and will serve six months of probation, and he will be prohibited from having firearms or ammunition, the Palm Beach…
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Black Students at Stoneman Douglas High Want Gun-Violence Solutions to Address Police Violence
On Wednesday afternoon, black students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., assembled to draw attention to their growing safety concerns since returning to class—concerns they say may not necessarily be shared or highlighted by their white classmates, who have received the bulk of the national media’s attention following the deadly shooting that…
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The Finessing of Howard University
If you are black, you likely know what it means to “finesse” something: Finesse (verb): To acquire smoothly and without force. The art of persuasion or trickery, in which an individual is able to get something he or she wants with cunning and prowess. If you are black, it is also statistically unlikely that you…
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For 1st Time Since Fatal Bombings Rocked Austin, Texas, Police Chief Finally Calls Serial Bomber a ‘Domestic Terrorist’
It has been eight days since the man behind a series of deadly bombings in Austin, Texas, killed himself in an explosion; about 10 days since authorities first referred to the killer as a “serial bomber”; 16 days since authorities confirmed suspicions about the connection between the occurring explosions; and 27 days since the first…