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Tatyana Ali speaks on her new sitcom, childhood stardom and Willow Smith
“What really filled that gap and helped me adjust socially was going to college and taking that time to be in school. I found out who I was outside of acting.”
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Hampton University Proton therapy center treats its first pediatric patient
Reagyn, now age 10, was diagnosed with a brain stem glioma, a type of central nervous system tumor, in 2005. After treatment her mother commented, “She’s doing great. She hasn’t had any of the other symptoms. You can look at her and not even know she has it.”
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Should the N-Word be taken out of classic school taught literature?
A new edition of “Huckleberry Finn” removes the 219 uses of the word “nigger” in the novel and replaces them with “slave.”
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Newport fights FDA ban to continue marketing menthol cigarettes to African Americans
Among the company’s tactics: buying up a host of menthol-bashing Internet domain names, including MentholKillsMinorities.com, MentholAddictsYouth.com and FDAMustBanMenthol.com.
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Howard grad becomes California’s first female and first African American attorney general
Harris attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., where she was initiated into Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, and received her Juris Doctor (JD) from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1989.
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Tavis Smiley & Cornel West Join Forces for New Public Radio Program
Smiley and West sat with Geraldo Rivera to promote our new radio show, the Smiley & West Show. Watch as they discuss the topic of absentee fathers. The discussion starts at 1:42.
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Lawrence and Foxx Resurrect Sheneneh And Wanda on the big screen
Screen Gems has acquired “Sheneneh and Wanda,” a vehicle for Jamie Foxx and Martin Lawrence to star in a comic caper playing female characters they developed during their stand-up comedy days. Foxx will write the script, which he and Martin will produce through Foxx’s FoxxKing and Lawrence’s Runteldat production banners.
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HBCU alumna becomes the only African-American player to earn status on the LPGA Tour
The 6’1” Averyhardt recorded nine wins in collegiate competition while a student at Jackson State University, a historically black university in Jackson, Miss., where she graduated in 2008 with a degree in accounting.