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Nov 19, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Philip Lewis
A crowd gathers at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony of the city's Go-Go Museum and Café in the city's historic Anacostia district on Monday in Washington, D.C. Go-Go music is the official music of the nation's capital, and the museum is a celebration and preservation of the music and a tribute to its pioneers.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Philip Lewis
Kamala Harris New Economic Agenda Reveals What She Would Do To Help Black MenVice President Kamala Harris on Monday unveiled a list of policies aimed toward Black men, her latest attempt to engage a voting bloc former President Donald Trump and his campaign have attempted to court this election season.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
msn.com | Philip Lewis
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
sg.news.yahoo.com | Philip Lewis
After Texas banned diversity, equity and inclusion programs at public universities in 2023, many colleges and universities nationwide have since followed suit and cracked down on DEI within the past year. Additionally, Black enrollment has dipped among so-called elite universities in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Philip Lewis
Philip LewisSeptember 10, 2024 at 4:10 PM·3 min readVice President Kamala Harris’ campaign hosted a slew of events targeting Black men in Wisconsin this past week, part of an effort to drive turnout and prevent defections among a key voting bloc. On Friday, former Lt. Gov.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Philip Lewis
Philip LewisAugust 8, 2024 at 5:49 PM·2 min readAlabama Republican congressional candidate Caroleene Dobson, who has been vocal about her support of school choice on the campaign trail, graduated from a private, so-called “segregation academy,” in 2005. Dobson, who is in a heated race in the newly court-drawn 2nd Congressional Districtagainst Democrat Shomari Figures, graduated from Monroe Academy, a private school in the small city of Monroeville.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Philip Lewis
In December 1973, acclaimed writer and future Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison wrote a letter to her longtime friend James Baldwin.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Philip Lewis
The media industry has a long, fraught history of racism that it has yet to answer for. Local newspaper coverage contributed to a white mob’s 1921 destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and several newspapers ran editorials supporting segregation.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
huffpost.com | Philip Lewis
Residents in a small Alabama town will be able to vote in their own municipal elections for the first time in decades after a four-year legal battle. A proposed settlement has been reached in the town’s voting rights case, allowing Newbern, a predominantly Black town with 133 residents, to hold its first legitimate elections in more than 60 years. The town’s next elections will be held in 2025. The settlement was filed June 21 and must be approved by U.S. District Judge Kristi K. DuBose.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Philip Lewis
Jay-Z’s Roc Nation announced Fridayit will lead a campaign aimed at promoting a new school voucher program for Philadelphia-area students in grades K-12 from low-income households.
