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How 1 Man Is Using the Unity of the Civil Rights Movement to Empower Black Students in STEM
The book cover looks like that of any other science book, to be honest: White man showing a multicultural group something that looks like displaced atoms. However, Holding Fast to Dreams: Empowering Youth From the Civil Rights Crusade to STEM Achievement is a little more than meets the eye. “It’s a great conversation starter,” Freeman…
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LAPD Clears 2 Officers in Fatal Shooting of Ezell Ford
The Los Angeles Police Department has cleared officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villegas in the shooting death of Ezell Ford on Aug. 11, 2014, calling the shooting “justified,” the Los Angeles Times reports. As ppreviously reported by The Root, Ford was shot three times, including once in the back at such close range that the…
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What?! Brittney Griner Seeks to Annul Her Marriage to Glory Johnson
WNBA star Brittney Griner has announced that she has filed papers seeking to annul her marriage to fellow WNBA star Glory Johnson 28 days into the union, ESPN reports. The shocking news comes one day after Johnson announced on Instagram that she is expecting the couple’s first child. Both are 24. In a statement released…
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KSU Apologizes to Student Accused of ‘Harassment’ While Waiting on Adviser
A Kennesaw State University student has finally gotten an apology after a student adviser accused him of harassment merely for sitting and waiting for a chance to speak to his own adviser, 11 Alive reports. Kevin Bruce tweeted out his encounter with student adviser Abbie Dawson, who berated him for harassing his academic adviser, even…
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Death of 22-Year-Old Student in Police Custody Ruled a Homicide
A 22-year-old college student who was arrested after a domestic violence dispute and later died in restraints inside a Georgia cell on New Year’s Day, died from blunt-force injuries, and his death has been ruled a homicide. According to the Associated Press, Matthew Ajibade’s parents have being searching for answers for months about exactly what…
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Ohio Man Posts Emotional Video After He Is Badly Beaten Trying to Help His Community
Ronald Moon Jr. has a house in the same Cincinnati neighborhood where he grew up. But instead of turning the family home into a rental property, he decided to make it a community center for the children in the neighborhood. For the past six months, Moon, who quit his job to try to create his…
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All Public School Students in Baltimore Will Get Free Breakfast and Lunch Regardless of Family Income
Every single public school student in Baltimore will be offered free breakfast and lunch at school regardless of whether a student comes from a low-, middle- or upper-income family, the Baltimore Sun reports. The initiative is part of a federal program that did away with how public school districts would have some students—those from lower-income…
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‘Female Viagra’ Pill Gets Green Light From Group Advising FDA
The drug aptly dubbed “female Viagra,” which will reportedly help women ramp up their sexual drive, may have inched its way closer to the marketplace. An advisory committee voted Thursday to recommend to the Food and Drug Administration that the drug be approved, the Washington Post reports. The FDA sometimes heeds the recommendations given it…
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Detroit Mom on Trial in Killing of 2 Kids Erupts in Courtroom: ‘Yes, I Did Kill Her!’
A Detroit courtroom dealt with some pretty tense moments Thursday as Mitchelle Blair, the Detroit mom accused of killing two of her children and storing their bodies in a freezer for years, exploded in the courtroom, yelling, “Yes, I did kill her!” According to My Fox Detroit, Blair, 35, is facing murder charges in the…
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Calif. Parents Furious With High School Teacher Who They Say Asked Students to Take Selfies With Parents’ Sex Toys
A California teacher reportedly sent his high school students home with a bizarre request for extra credit. “It was to go into your parents’ private drawers or whatever to seek out sexual toys or condoms, or anything of that nature, and to take a selfie with it,” one student’s mother, Kimberly Cobene, told KPIX. Cobene,…