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Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize Winner Toni Morrison Dead At 88

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by Krystal Franklin August 6, 2019 hoto by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for The Stella Adler Studio of Acting The literary world lost a beloved icon Monday night. Novelist Toni Morrison died at Montefiore Medical Center […]

Texas officers on horses led handcuffed black man by a rope

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Aug. 6, 2019, 10:11 AM EDT By Elisha Fieldstadt “The police chief in Galveston said the “practice was not used correctly,” considering the nature of the arrest.” A Texas police department changed its policy Monday […]

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St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church – Celebrant: Father Eddie Jones – will celebrate it’s annual Patronal Feast, honoring the Patron Saint, Gabriel. Each year we encourage churches, sororities, fraternities, social clubs and community organizations to share […]

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This summit is designed to encourage a national conversation on current challenges and future solutions by involving a national group of stakeholders in exploring the current state of the access pathway for underrepresented students in […]

There Are Too Many Guns in America

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by Shaun King On Saturday evening, at a wonderful festival in Brooklyn just a few miles from my house, 12 people were shot. On Sunday evening, in the Bay Area of California, at a Garlic Food […]

Florida Education Plan Lacking in Both Promise and Practice

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By Dr. Elizabeth Primas How is Florida addressing the needs of its lowest-performing schools under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)? Last year, the Collaborative for Student Success an independent non-profit education advocacy organization, sought […]

Who Cares About Fare Elections?

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By Julianne Malveaux, NNPA Newswire Contributor The US House of Representatives passed the Securing America’s Fair Elections (SAFE) Act in June by a nearly totally partisan vote of 225-184 in late June. Only one Republican […]

Toni Morrison’s Passing is a Loss for the Racial Justice Community

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by Marc Morial “Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Whether it is obscuring state language or the faux-language of mindless […]

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Racially Motivated Mass Murders Multiply and No Solutions are in Site

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by Reggie Fullwood A plague is defined as “an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality.” The chronic school shootings that have become commonplace in America are reminders of our failure as a society […]

Godfather of Harlem Series Looks at the Life Work of Original Gangster Bumpy Johnson

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Epix’s new 10-episode crime series “Godfather of Harlem” stars Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker as the infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson. The story is inspired by Johnson who returned to 1960’s Harlem after a 10-year […]