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Hillary Clinton’s ‘New College Compact’ Includes $25,000,000,000 to Support Private HBCUs
Hillary Clinton unveiled a “New College Compact”—a $350 billion proposal—as part of her 2016 presidential platform this week, promising to ease the cost of higher education and, in the same breath, reduce student debt. In the broader proposal, Clinton proposes that states “will have to step up … by maintaining current levels of higher education…
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Tenn. School District Says It Can’t Stop Students From Displaying Confederate Flag Unless It Causes a ‘Disturbance’
A Tennessee mother is questioning the freedom students have to openly display the Confederate flag while on a high school campus, WKRN-TV reports. The mother, who is black and wants to remain unidentified, contacted the news station because she was concerned about her son’s safety at Stewarts Creek High School in Smyrna, Tenn. According to…
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Black Nationalist Charlie Hill Fears Life in Cuba Now That US Relationship Is on the Mend
The United States and Cuba are reconciling. And even though the mend in the battered relationship is still in its beginning stages, American fugitives who have been granted political asylum in Cuba are worrying about their future. Charlie Hill, who told CBS News that he still considers himself a “revolutionary,” is one of those fugitives,…
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Father: 15-Year-Old Boy Shot by Indianapolis Police Was No Threat
Fifteen-year-old Andre Green was fatally shot by Indianapolis police who said the teen was driving a stolen car and accelerated toward officers, causing them to open fire. The boy’s father questions the cops’ account and believes that lethal force wasn’t needed. According to the Associated Press, Kenneth Green has several questions about the officers’ account…
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Iowa Barber Gave Free Back-to-School Haircuts to Kids as Long as They Read to Him
A Dubuque, Iowa, barber figured he would do his part to help the community get ready for the upcoming school year, so on Saturday he offered children haircuts, with the only payment being that they had to read a book to the barber. “I just want to support kids reading,” barber Courtney Holmes, who set…
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Trump to #BlackLivesMatter: ‘I Would Never Give Up My Microphone’
Republican presidential contender Donald Trump is not known for backing down … to anyone about anything. So “the Donald” was quite shocked when Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) did not protest when protesters affiliated with Black Lives Matter took over a political rally at which Sanders was scheduled to address supporters. Not I,…
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‘I Don’t Want to Die in Your Cell,’ Ralkina Jones Told Police in Video Taken Before Her in-Custody Death
“I don’t want to die in your cell.” Those were some of the last words Ohio mom Ralkina Jones spoke to Cleveland Heights police officers, a mere 15 hours or so before she was found dead in a jail cell, Cleveland.com reports. Jones, who died July 26, can be seen on body-camera footage talking candidly…
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Ohio Woman’s Truck Is Burned After Racist Letter Threatened, ‘Don’t Get Burnt Up in There’
Nicole Rhodes was in the process of reopening a hair salon and beauty school in a Youngstown, Ohio, building that she has owned for the last three-and-a-half years. A few weeks ago, she says, someone, presumably a neighbor, left a racist letter on the building with a deadly warning: ” ‘Black bitch, we don’t want…
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Activist DeRay Mckesson’s Social Media Has Been Monitored by Department of Homeland Security: Report
Editor’s note: This article has been updated with info about the cybersecurity firm ZeroFox. Civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson is a prominent voice on the ground and online—and according to Vice News, his social media presence has been the target of monitoring by the Department of Homeland Security. According to a report by the news…
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Fight Between Jets Teammates Started Over $600 Debt: Report
On Tuesday, New York Jets coach Todd Bowles held a hurried press conference to announce that a linebacker had coldcocked his starting quarterback, knocking him out of the lineup for at least 6-10 weeks with a broken jaw. Now the New York Daily News is reporting that the incident may have stemmed from a no-show…