By Jasmine Wright, Vice President Kamala HarrisĀ forcefully defended President Joe Biden when recently asked whether he or Sen. Joe Manchin is the president of the United States, asĀ Biden’s agenda remains stalledĀ in part because of the West Virginia Democrat. “So, who is the real president of this country, is it Joe Manchin or Joe Biden, Madam
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By Joan Biskupic, The University of North Carolina and civil rights advocatesĀ urged the US Supreme Court on MondayĀ to steer clear of a case designed to end racialĀ affirmative actionĀ at state colleges and universities. Lawyers for North Carolina, led by state Solicitor General Ryan Park, contend the challengers are trying to “short-circuit” the usual judicial process by
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By David Williams, Physics professorĀ Vinod MenonĀ doesn’t get much mail at the office, so when The City College of New York (CCNY) returned toĀ in-person classes this semester, he was greeted with some junk mail and a nondescript package in a battered cardboard box. Menon, the chairman of the physics department, at first thought it was some
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By Aya Elamroussi, With coronavirus cases surging once again, frustrated Americans areĀ struggling to get testedĀ days before Christmas as long lines and increased demand overwhelm some facilities across the country. The catalyst has been the rapid spread of the Omicron variant,Ā which has become the dominant strain in the USĀ in a matter of weeks and has led
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By Paul LeBlanc and Manu Raju, President Joe Biden on Tuesday insisted that he and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin will “get something done” on the Build Back Better Act after ManchinĀ defied his party by torpedoingĀ the key piece of Biden’s domestic agenda. “Some people think maybe I’m not Irish because I don’t hold a grudge. But
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By Wayne Sterling, TheĀ National Basketball Association (NBA)Ā will allow teams dealing with Covid-19 issues to add replacement players due to the rising number of cases, according to a memo dated Sunday and obtained by CNN on Monday. The NBA and National Basketball Players Association have agreed to allow teams to sign a replacement player for each
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by Jackson State University The day has come. The long-awaited 2021 Fall Commencement ceremony took place on Friday, December 10., at the Lee E. Williams Athletics & Assembly Center. The college experience for these graduates has been different than years past. As a product of a prolonged pandemic, many students endured great obstacles to get
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Written by Howard University newsroom Howard Universityās Center for African StudiesĀ and theĀ Department of African StudiesĀ welcomed assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Molly Phee, to a U.S. Policy Toward Africa. Assistant Secretary Phee recently traveled with Secretary Blinken to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal on his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. The trip included a major
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By Morehouse College Morehouse College will share in a $2 million gift contributed by the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation to support new scholarships for Black students at 12 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation contribution aligns with and builds on Ralph Lauren Corporationās commitments to address systemic racism and racial
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Written by Texas Southern University Princess Jackson, a freshman at Texas Southern University (TSU) is on a mission to stamp out poverty in Houston ā one sock at a time. Jackson founded Sock Out Poverty, Inc., a 501(c)3 non-profit organization when she was nine years old and has given out over 15,000 pairs of socks
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