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Chicago Public Schools Clarifies Some of the Finer Points of Mayor Emanuel's New Education Plan
Updated Wednesday, April 5, 10:20 p.m. EST: Emily Bolton, Deputy Press Secretary of Academics for Chicago Public Schools emailed The Root to provide clarity on some of the questions raised about the Learn, Plan, Succeed initiative and the related graduation requirement introduced by Mayor Emanuel and CPS. “The goal of Learn Plan Succeed is to…
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19-Year-Old Charged in Quadruple Homicide at Chicago Restaurant
Authorities have arrested a 19-year-old who is facing murder charges in the suspected gang-related killings of four men at a South Side restaurant. Maurice Harris, arrested Tuesday, faces four counts of first-degree murder in the March 30 killings. Police say that Harris’ father died in another shooting a day earlier in the same neighborhood, the…
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Steve ‘Satan’s Stepson’ Bannon Loses Job on National Security Council
Steve Bannon, the man who Lucifer says “gives me the heebie-jeebies” and Hitler’s ghost deemed “a little too racist for me,” will no longer serve on the most important and powerful foreign policy and security committee in the world. The Associated Post and the BBC both report that President Donald Trump has removed Bannon from…
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Calif. Woman Shot to Death While Driving Her 2 Children to Day Care
A California mother was shot to death while driving with her two young children to day care Tuesday morning. According to CBS News, a $2 million warrant has been issued for the arrest of Dushan McBride, 43, of San Pablo, Calif., the estranged boyfriend of the victim, Rashanda Franklin. Franklin was found wounded behind the…
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Justice Department May Reopen Its Investigation Into Murder of Emmett Till
The investigation into the 1955 murder of Emmett Till may once again be reopened by the U.S. Department of Justice, with the news coming just a week after Attorney General Jeff Sessions expressed his support for pursuing and prosecuting those involved in the killing who went unpunished. “He said no one gets a pass,” Emmett’s…
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CNN Facing Racial-Discrimination Lawsuit Claiming African Americans Receive Lower Performance Ratings in Evaluations
Another major news network is facing allegations in a racial-discrimination lawsuit, stemming from a proposed class action in Georgia federal court. In the lawsuit, plaintiffs claim that at CNN and other Time Warner units, African Americans receive lower performance ratings in evaluations, that there are huge discrepancies in pay between employees doing similar jobs but…
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Texas Mother Raises Enough Money to Visit Son Before His Execution
A Texas mother whose son is on death row will be able to visit him a final time before his execution thanks to generous donors on a YouCaring campaign. “I can’t thank everyone enough for the donations. It has helped me to be there for my son when he needs his mother,” Marilyn Shankle-Grant wrote…
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Ohio Quadruplets All Earn Entry to Yale, Harvard
On Tuesday we celebrated #BlackGirlMagic after high school senior Ifeoma White-Thrope from New Jersey made a clean sweep in her college applications and was accepted into all eight Ivy League schools and Stanford, for good measure. Well, today, I’m bringing you some #BlackBoyJoy, after a set of Ohio quadruplets were all accepted into Yale and…