WASHINGTON (NNPA) –According to a report released last week, 3.5 million K-12 public school students were suspended in the 2011-2012 school year – enough to…

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DALLAS (AP) — A 26-year-old nurse said in a newspaper interview that a hospital where she had worked in Dallas and its parent company failed…

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WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the Republican-led Congress prepares to update the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), civil rights groups, educators and student advocates fear…

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*Although Jussie Smollett was mum on his personal life, his “Empire” co-star Malik Yoba shed a bit of light on Smollett and his sexuality recently during an interview with BlackFilm.com as he discussed the success of “Empire” while making parallels to his classic ‘90’s show “New York Undercover.” The following is part of Yoba’s BlackFilm.com […]

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*When  republican Gene Alday,  a member of the Mississippi state legislature, made news because of his very public statement to the media that African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are unemployed and on food stamps, he was basically ‘talking out the side of his neck.’ He has since back-peddled and apologized. “I come from a town […]

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*While many people may be cool with casting people of color to play superheroes that are traditionally white in comic books, Michelle Rodriguez isn’t one of them. The “Furious 7” star of Puerto Rican extraction weighed in on the trend while talking to TMZ, labeling it as “so stupid.” “Because of this whole ‘minorities in […]

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*Marriage is a wonderful thing. Especially if you’re as freaky as Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. Apparently all those rumors of the couple’s wild and crazy sex life may have some truth to them. In a recent interview with Extra, Will and Jada confessed to getting turned on by each other’s sex scenes in their […]

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*Sounds like music legend Madonna is starting to feel her age. Oh not in the way that she’s admitting to any aches and pains associated with getting older; but more like what it feels like to be treated as ‘less than’ or ‘not as good as,’ or ‘not holding the same value as.’ I mean, […]

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*(Reuters via MSN News) – The first person infected with Ebola in the United States, nurse Nina Pham, said she was used for publicity purposes by her hospital, which also invaded her privacy and did not properly train her, the Dallas Morning News reported on Sunday. Pham, 26, told the newspaper that chaos hit the […]

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*One week after Alabama state troopers bludgeoned civil rights demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge outside Selma on March 7, 1965 a visibly shaken Lyndon Johnson called for and addressed a joint session of Congress. His message was clear. His administration would pull out all stops to pass a voting rights bill which was the […]

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*Just like the headline says, this page/board is where you can discuss the stuff that we didn’t cover in today’s issue. (It’s sort of like feedback with a twist) Remember, NO name calling, racial taunting, graphic sex talk and vulgarity in general, PLEASE. ——– EUR MOTIVATIONAL NOTE Either you run the day, or the day […]

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*(Via NAN) – The National Action Network, one of the leading civil rights organizations in Los Angeles calls for a emergency meeting with LAPD Chief Beck to discuss the shooting of a mentally ill homeless man on skid row by LAPD officer’s Sunday afternoon after a brief scuffle. Civil rights leaders are also calling for […]

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