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New regulations could cutoff federal aid to 1.2 million minority students
African-American civil rights, business and political leaders are opposing U.S. Department of Education regulations that would limit access to career colleges for many minorities by cutting off federal loans and grants at some of the for-profit learning institutions.
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Ronald W. Walters, scholar, activist, author and professor at Howard University dies of cancer
“He was a man who used his intellect and wisdom to make this a fairer and culturally richer country than the one we were born into.”
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Black Leaders Outraged by ‘Religious Right’ Moves to Overturn Roe v Wade
The “Religious Right” billboard campaign claiming African American children are an “endangered species” and Alveda King’s comparison of anti-abortion activists to “Freedom Riders” have sparked outrage in the African American community.
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The Negro Motorist Green Book: Looking back to a time when Blacks had no choice but to support Black business
For almost three decades beginning in 1936, many African-American travelers relied on a booklet to help them decide where they could comfortably eat, sleep, buy gas, find a tailor or beauty parlor, shop on a honeymoon to Niagara Falls, or go out at night.
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New mural celebrates students from North Carolina A&T who took part in the lunch counter sit-ins 1960
The mural showcases 40 individuals and more than eight events symbolizing North Carolina’s African American history associated with civil rights, government, business, journalism and education.
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A Black perspective on gun control
An amendment that helped blacks to protect themselves from Ku Klux Klan terrorists now is being used to help protect a black Chicago man from local gang-bangers.
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Juneteenth: A celebration of freedom
Juneteenth, is now celebrated here in America and around the world as the anniversary of the day 145 years ago that the Emancipation Proclamation led to freedom for thousands of African-Americans still being held as slaves.
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Civil Rights matriarch, Dorothy Height, dies at age 98
Dorothy I. Height, 98, a founding matriarch of the American civil rights movement whose crusade for racial justice and gender equality spanned more than six decades, died early Tuesday morning of natural causes