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09-07-2024 5:35 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Graduates of the University of North Carolina take pictures at the Old Well on campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., June 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
Some selective colleges are reporting drops in the number of Black students, but there are other factors affecting the makeup of their incoming classes
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Photo credit: The Happy Hues Company
In 2023, cultural architect Eunique Jones Gibson, the creative visionary behind Because of Them We Can and CultureTags, introduced The Happy Hues Co., a brand that’s redefining what it means to celebrate diversity and joy in the world of baby essentials.
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This week, the White House released a comprehensive fact sheet outlining the administration’s bold actions to ensure that every student in the country has access to the resources they need to succeed.
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Sociologist James Loewen used oral histories, census data, and other historical records to identify sundown towns nationwide.
Trump’s decision to hold rallies in these locations is raising alarms, especially given his long history of stirring racial tensions and his open embrace of white supremacist groups.
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Last year, 18-year-old Khalifa Aminu from Kano, Nigeria, began working on an innovative invention: sensory glasses designed to help the visually impaired navigate safely and independently without a walking stick. Though still in development, this creation has the potential to transform how visually impaired people experience their surroundings, Daily News 24 reports.
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In a working paper, Gyesi interviewed 13 African immigrant students in Iowa high schools who come from different cultures and speak different languages. She found that many of them take advanced courses in high school and aspire to go to four-year colleges, busting what research has shown to be stereotypes about African students as academically unmotivated or likely to fail.
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A Healthy Start pamphlet (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
Federal, state and local governments are all trying to reduce maternal mortality rates across the United States and eliminate racial disparities. The federal Healthy Start program funds more than 100 local projects that coordinate care for pregnant women and help meet social needs. California halved its maternal mortality rate through an organization that shares the best ways to treat common causes of maternal death.
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Recent research suggests that conservative critiques of DEI often boil down to one thing: anti-Black racism.
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Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (AP Photo/Tran Nguyen)
None of the bills would provide widespread direct payments to African Americans. The approved proposals allow for the return of land or compensation to families whose property was unjustly seized by the government, and issuing a formal apology for laws and practices that have harmed Black people.
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Kamala Harris speaks at her alma mater, Howard University(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Howard University in Washington, D.C., is well known for producing luminaries like Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and author Toni Morrison. Now its students and alumni are turning attention to the person who could become their most famous graduate: Vice President Kamala Harris. If Harris wins the White House, she would be the first woman elected president and the first graduate of a historically Black college to hold that office.
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