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Make MLK Day a Day of Service
On a day when America is recognizing one of our great civil servants, let’s consider taking the opportunity to serve our communities as well. The message is Make MLK Day a day ON.
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Schools in GA, NC, and SC open on MLK Day to make up snow closings
A decision to use the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to make up a snow day in Georgia and the Carolinas has infuriated civil rights leaders, who say the districts are insulting the civil rights icon.
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Republican school board in N.C. seeks to abolish integration
The situation unfolding here in some ways represents a first foray of tea party conservatives shaping a public school system.
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TSU Alum is Knoxville’s 1st Black Mayor
Brown, a native Knoxvillian and graduate of Austin High school and Tennessee State University, is retired from the U.S. Postal Service. He’s also a Vietnam War veteran.
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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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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.
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[video] The President & First Lady explain Child Nutrition Bill
All children should have the basic nutrition they need to learn and grow and to pursue their dreams, because in the end, nothing is more important than the health and well-being of our children