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South Carolina to Honor Robert Smalls With First Statue

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South Carolina is preparing to put up its first individual statue for an African American on its Statehouse lawn, honoring a man who put on Confederate clothes in order to steal a slaveholder’s ship and sail his family and a dozen others to freedom during the Civil War. But Robert Smalls isn’t just being honored for his audacious escape. He spent a decade in the U.S. House, helped rewrite South Carolina’s constitution to allow Black men equality after the Civil War and then put up a valiant but doomed fight when racists returned to power and eliminated nearly all of the gains

Washington Post Won’t Endorse in 2024 Presidential Race

For the first time in over 30 years, the Washington Post announced on Friday its editorial board would not be making an endorsement of a candidate in a presidential election. “We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates,” Will Lewis, the newspaper’s publisher and chief executive officer said in a statement on Friday, less than two weeks before the 2024 presidential election. The Washington Post editorial board has endorsed a candidate for almost every presidential election since it endorsed Jimmy Carter in 1976. Jeff Bezos, the billionaire owner of Amazon, bought the Post in 2013. The decision by the Post’s leaders not to endorse

Biden Expands Tax Credit for Clean Energy Manufacturing

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By Rachel Frazin The Biden administration is expanding a federal tax credit that seeks to incentivize domestic production of components for solar and wind energy, as well as batteries. The Treasury Department issued final guidance Thursday that details how a renewables manufacturing credit from the Democrats’ climate tax and health care law will be implemented. Compared to a proposed guidance issued late last year, the final guidance makes the credit more lucrative for industry — which officials said could help expand both domestic manufacturing and domestic mining. The tax credit applies to the production of a wide range of components

Harris Eyes Howard for 2024 Election Night Headquarters

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By Monica Alba Vice President Kamala Harris plans to spend election night in Washington, with her campaign eyeing her alma mater, Howard University, as a possible venue for her to speak from, according to seven people familiar with the planning. While it’s possible the election results could be known within hours and not days, the Democratic campaign is preparing for a much longer stretch — perhaps even an election “week” — without an outcome, these people said. That plan could include several different speeches and venues for delivering them. Precisely what Harris says publicly and the backdrop for her remarks would depend

Trump Alleges UK Labour Aid to Harris Is Interference

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By Ashleigh Fields and Sarakshi Rai Former President Trump’s campaign team filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Monday, labeling the U.K. Labour Party’s efforts to support Vice President Harris as “election interference.” “In two weeks, Americans will once again reject the oppression of big government that we rejected in 1776. The flailing Harris-Walz campaign is seeking foreign influence to boost its radical message — because they know they can’t win the American people,” Susie Wiles, co-manager of the Trump-Vance campaign, said in a statement. The group offered to send 100 current and former Labour Party staff to battleground states such as Pennsylvania and North

Black Bikers Rally Philly Voters Ahead of 2024 Election

By Trymaine Lee  For 30 years, the Rev. Alyn E. Waller has led his flock at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, the city’s largest Black congregation. But on Saturday, the good pastor led another kind of assembly: 100 Black men, mostly clad in leather, astride a pack of snarling motorcycles. “Here we are in Philly, 100 fellas on bikes in the city and the police are helping us, not chasing us,” Waller said, a chorus of hogs, trikes and slingshots rising around him. “At the end of the day, we know that we have done some good, not just for us, but

$25K Donated to NC HBCUs for Hurricane Helene Recovery

A remarkable act of kindness has emerged as an anonymous donor contributed $25,000 to assist North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities in their recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene. Multiple Historically Black Colleges and Universities are part of the NCICU, including Bennett College, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College, Saint Augustine’s University, and Shaw University. This significant gift honors Dr. Rosemary M. Thomas and celebrates her inauguration as the first female president of Chowan University. The donation is a testament to the institution’s dedication to community service and support. Dr. Thomas presented the generous donation to NCICU President A. Hope Williams

DNC Launches $500K Campus Push for Early Student Voting

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By Katherine Knott In an effort to boost early voting among college students, the Democratic National Committee is planning to spend big on a new campaign—one of its largest efforts ever to reach young people and student voters. The roughly $500,000 campaign will encourage students to vote early and vote for Democrats in “critical races for the White House, House and Senate,” according to the announcement, provided first to Inside Higher Ed. College students are a key demographic for Democrats and seen as critical to Vice President Kamala Harris’s bid to win the White House after young adults helped power President Joe Biden

Humanities Degrees Decline at HBCUs, Report Finds

A new report from the Humanities Indicators project at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences has examined trends in humanities degree completion at historically Black colleges and universities over the past 25 years. In 2022, HBCUs awarded 2,907 bachelor’s degrees in humanities fields. This was a 15 percent decrease from the recent high of 3,434 degrees awarded in 2014. Notably, this is a significantly greater decrease than the 2.5 percent decline in all degrees awarded by HBCUs over the same time period. Most of the humanities degrees awarded by HBCUs in 2022 were within the “liberal studies” discipline, with concentrations in

Biden Forgives 1M Public Service Loans, $74B Erased

By Katherine Knott After overhauling a 17-year-old program, the Biden administration has now forgiven student loans for one million public service workers—a milestone the Education Department celebrated as “unprecedented.” The administration crossed the one million threshold Thursday after discharging another $4.5 billion for more than 60,000 student loan borrowers including teachers, nurses and first responders. The department has now forgiven $74 billion in debt through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which Congress created in 2007 to wipe out outstanding loans for qualified borrowers after they made payments for 10 years. Few workers benefited from the program before the Biden administration took over and implemented

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