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UC System Picks First Black President

(CALMATTERS) After a six-month search, the University of California Regents picked Michael V. Drake as the new head of the school system, the first Black president in the system’s history. Drake, the former president of Ohio State University and former chancellor of UC Irvine, succeeds Janet

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Voter Suppression Goes to College - Voice and Viewpoint

By Cash Michaels and Peter Grear, Greater Diversity News If preliminary data estimates on the recent 2020 primaries in North Carolina are accurate, student voters on HBCU campuses must raise their turnout game come the general election this November. So says Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV

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Goliath J. Davis, III, Ph.D. Goliath J. Davis, III, Ph.D., Contributor PINELLAS COUNTY Voters will soon cast their ballots for candidates seeking the Pinellas County District 7 school board seat. Given the true state of affairs with education and the achievement gap in Pinellas County, a true

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J.J. Rhoads pre-K scholarships are available: Enroll today

DALLAS — Enrollment for the 2020-2021 school year is now underway at Joseph J. Rhoads. Dallas ISD is offering scholarships for eligible 3- and 4-year-olds to attend J.J. Rhoads All-Day Learning Center in South Dallas at no cost starting this August. The scholarship guidelines are designed to

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Alabama Power Foundation grant makes ‘virtual learning’ a reality for rural Greene County students

When the COVID-19 pandemic forced Alabama schools to close their traditional classrooms in March, Corey Jones said it hit his students in rural Greene County doubly hard.“We’re one of the poorest school districts in the state, and most of our students don’t have computers or access to the

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Oakland School Board Votes Unanimously to Disband the OUSD Police Dept. Oakland School Board Votes Unanimously to Disband the OUSD Police Dept.

In a win for anti-police violence activists in Oakland, the Oakland School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to disband the OUSD Police Dept., committing to eliminate the department that has 20 sworn officers and 120 school resource officers. The 7-0 vote followed a two-hour debate and several

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One North Carolina City Council Approves Reparations – Sort Of | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Hundreds of years of Black blood spilled that fills the cup we drink from today,” said Councilman Keith Young, one of two African American members of the City Council that voted 7-0 in favor of reparations. It is simply not enough to remove statutes. Black people in this country

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Georgia Provost: 'We need a Black Agenda!' | Afram News

"Right now, we as Black people need to get us an agenda and we need to discuss all of these disparities that we have in the Black community; education, healthcare and clinics, employment, parks for the youth, food, housing, economic development and the list goes on and on," Georgia Provost said.

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Honda and HBCUs Join Together to Combat the Pandemic | Dallas Weekly

At the end of March, nearly 250 students and coaches from 48 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were set to travel to California to compete for the national championship title in the 31st annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC), Americas premier academic competition for

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OP-ED: We Can't Let This Moment Pass | BlackPressUSA

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The last few months have made the truths of being Black in America clear to all. We have watched as a pandemic killed Black people at the rate of almost two and half times that of other Americans. Not from a mutation of the virus but from an underfunded system that too often

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Students can earn a biology and chiropractic degrees at SPC

PINELLAS COUNTY - St. Petersburg College (SPC) and National University of Health Sciences (NUHS) have collaborated to allow students to complete both a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree in less time. The Advanced Scholars Program is a joint recruitment and dual

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Texas universities are moving more classes online but keeping tuition the same. Students are asking if its worth the money. | Dallas Weekly

By Raga Justin and Reese Oxner, The Texas Tribune Sarah Ramos has spent her summer anxiously awaiting a fall return to Texas AM’s campus at College Station. She is hoping for some normalcy after she and her classmates were abruptly forced off campus last semester and into Zoom-based classes for the

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Voter suppression goes to college | Atlanta Daily World

By BlackPressUSA Dr. William Busa, founder of EQV Analytics, a ‘North Carolina-focused campaign consulting firm serving Democratic candidates with advanced campaign analytics, analyzed student voter turnout from ten North Carolina campuses, three of them HBCUs N.C. AT University, in

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UT-Austin will keep some racist symbols, pledges to honor historic Black students - Dallas Examiner

By REESE OXNER The Texas Tribune The University of Texas at Austin is making several changes to address racial issues on campus but will keep its statue of prominent segregationist James Hogg and

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“Maddie on a Mission” Virtual Interactive Read-A-Loud - Dallas Post Tribune

Grab your kids and the popcorn and join in on the fun. On Sunday, July 26th, Author/Illustrator Sharon Jones-Scaife and The Innovative Learners will host a virtual interactive read-a-long. Author Sharon Jones-Scaife will read “live” on Instagram and Facebook her latest book, “Maddie on

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Mississippi set to remove Confederate emblem from its flag | Dallas Weekly

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi is on the verge of changing its state flag to erase a Confederate battle emblem thats broadly condemned as racist. The flags supporters resisted efforts to change it for decades, but rapid developments in recent weeks have changed dynamics on this issue in the

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Source: Dallas Weekly

Hampton U. to Follow Online Format in the Fall

Hampton University President William Harvey announced his school will follow a remote-classes format this fall after initially aiming to reopen amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, saying the situation "has changed drastically."

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Source: The Washington Informer

Sandra Walker is candidate for Mayor of Eutaw

I, Sandra Walker, introduce myself as a candidate for Mayor of the City of Eutaw, Alabama. I have dedicated my life to helping and serving others. As a child, I dreamed of a life that was conducive to loving and treating others as I wanted to be treated; to extend help to the needy and […]

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Mary Trump Tells It All - Even Donald Trump's Degree Is A Fraud. - ThyBlackMan

Mary Trump writes that Trump even paid someone to take the SAT tests for him to help him get into the University of Pennsylvania. Trump was "worried that his grade point average, which put him far from the top of his class, would scuttle his efforts to get accepted."

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Dr. Glover: TSU methodically moving toward fall semester - TSDMemphis.com

A month out from the projected Aug. 17 start of Tennessee State University’s 2020 fall semester, Dr. Glenda Glover was asked if she would open the state’s only public HBCU that day given the COVID-19 status of Metro Nashville-Davidson County. Her answer – yes – came with amplification. “Two weeks

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US Supreme Court supports Black Gwinnett College students freedom of speech | Atlanta Daily World

Georgia Gwinnett College’s speech policies previously forbid any expression “which disturbs the peace and/or comfort of person(s)” and restricted speech to two tiny speech zones that made up less than 0.0015 percent of campus and were open only 18 hours per week. School officials used the policies

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Minority-Owned Miestro.com Paves Faster, Simpler Path for the Massive E-Learning Space Industry | BlackPressUSA

NPA NEWSWIRE — “It’s never been a better time for professionals to leverage their knowledge and expertise and build recurring revenue through the development of online courses,” says Justin Burns, the 33-year-old founder of Miestro.com. “Our platform was created to allow users to easily create

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HBCUs Concerned About Survival Amid Pandemic

The schools had also been left to wonder whether they could survive if the virus leads to a prolonged decrease in enrollment, particularly when some students were grieving for parents who had died from the virus.

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Creating a Creative Virtual Learning Space, Online Resources Teachers can Use | Chicago Defender

The end of summer is drawing near, and the return to school is upon us. With the ongoing conundrum of returning to the classroom full-time, implementing the hybrid method, or … Continued

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El Camino College President Dena P. Maloney Announces Retirement - Los Angeles Sentinel

2020-21 academic year will mark the final year of her presidency

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McDonalds, Honda Helping HBCU Students During COVID-19 Pandemic

McDonald's and Honda are both stepping up to help HBCU students who have been severely affected by the public health crisis.

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TSTA sues education commissioner over charter rules, alleging they illegally remove teacher certification, contractual requirements - North Dallas Gazette

The Texas State Teachers Association on Wednesday sued state Education Commissioner Mike Morath for adopting charter school partnership rules they say illegally deprive public school teachers of contractual and other employment rights and allow corporate charter chains to operate in Texas without

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Newswire : Mississippi surrenders Confederate symbol from state flag

By: Emily Wagster Pettus, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi will retire the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem, more than a century after white supremacist legislators adopted the design a generation after the South lost the Civil War. A broad coalition

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New California rules mean most schools will start online - Black News Channel

By JOCELYN GECKER and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press/ BNC Contributor SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With the first day of school just weeks away in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out sweeping new rules Friday that all but ensure most of the state's K-12 schools serving 6.7 million students will not

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COVID-19

As of July 22, 2020 at 10:20 AMAlabama had 70,413 confirmed cases of coronavirus,(14,000 more than last week) with 1,325 deaths (189 more than last week)Greene County had 224 confirmed cases, 23 more cases than last week, with 9 deathsSumter Co. had 325 cases with 13 deathsHale Co. had 402 cases

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