Organization’s Mission to Change the Lives of Today’s Youth with Opportunities for On-the-Spot College Acceptance and Scholarships Drives Week-Long Experience (Black PR Wire) WILMINGTON, Del. – The HBCU Week Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting high school students enrolling in Historically
Written By Lexx Thornton Texas House Republicans have proposed new legislation that would give educators significantly more discretion over suspending homeless students, weakening legal protections for the state’s most vulnerable children. House Bill 6, cosponsored by nearly three-quarters of House Republicans, would allow school leaders to suspend homeless students out of school for behavior that
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Written By Lexx Thornton Clarice Phelps is the first Black woman to help discover a new periodic table element. “Taking a seat at the periodic table didn’t happen overnight; it was actually a 20-year journey,” she said in a TSU interview. The element is known as Tennessine (Ts), number 117, and it is classified as
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Written By Lexx Thornton Lloyd Wright isn’t surprised that the United States Department of Agriculture is reversing a 35-year-old policy aimed at helping Black farmers in favor of a race-neutral approach. But the 84-year-old, who grows soybeans and vegetables in Virginia, knows his fellow Black farmers will feel “the damage” of it. Last week, the
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Written By Lexx Thornton A language that has been around for more than 20,000 years is at risk of becoming extinct. N|uu, pronounced with a clicking sound between the ‘N’ and the ‘uu’, is the most endangered language in the entire world, with a population of fluent speakers currently sitting at one. Ouma Katrina Esau.
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Written By Lexx Thornton The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has opened national origin discrimination investigations into the University of Louisville, the University of Nebraska Omaha, the University of Miami, the University of Michigan, and Western Michigan University. The investigations will determine whether these universities are granting scholarships only for Deferred
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Written By Lexx Thornton Three-time Olympic champion Gabby Douglas highlights 14 inductees who will comprise theU.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025. At the age of 16, Douglas madehistory in 2012 when she became the first Black woman to win all-around gold atthe OlympicGames in London. She also claimed team gold in
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Written By Lexx Thornton Transgender women will no longer be eligible to compete for the United States in the Olympic orParalympic Games in women’s categories, after a recent policy change from the U.S. Olympic &Paralympic Committee (USOPC). The committee cited PresidentDonald Trump’s February executive order, titled “Keeping MenOut of Women’s Sports,” which mandates immediate enforcement,
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Written By Lexx Thornton Paris is reviving the spirit of U.S.-French entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker with a new mural. Fifty years after her death, Baker now gazes out over a diverse neighborhood of northeast Paris, thanks to urban artist FKDL and a street art festival aimed at promoting community spirit. Born in
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Written By Lexx Thornton A new state law will allow students across South Carolina to be taught by someone without ateaching certificate beginning this upcoming school year. It comes as the state continues tograpple with a years-long educator shortage. It’s a new tactic lawmakers have implemented in an attempt to turn that shortage around. “We
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Written By Lexx Thornton During their international conclave in Tampa, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity leaders announced a strategic initiative focused on developing affordable housing in major cities across the country. What You Need To Know During their international conclave in Tampa, Phi Beta Sigma fraternity leaders announced a strategic initiative focused on developing affordable housing
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