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05-14-2024 2:32 pm • PDX and SEA Weather
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Pinky Cole Hayes, founder of Slutty Vegan and Bar Vegan, gave an inspiring commencement speech for the Savannah State University 2024 graduating class–and then surprised them all by announcing the entire class would receive an $8.75 million “Entrepreneurial Starter Pack,” Black Enterprise reports.
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Educator Mary McLeod Bethune (Robert Abbott Sengstacke via Getty Images)
When I first landed an internship as an archives technician at the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House-National Historic Site – the D.C. home of the woman who founded Bethune-Cookman University – I didn’t see a strong connection between the college founder’s life and the rest of the African diaspora. But in the process of preserving the records and retrieving them for scholars, I soon came to see Bethune in a different light.
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A new statue honoring civil rights activist and journalist Daisy Bates has been installed in the National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol. (Photo/NNPA)
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional. According to her bio, Bates began gathering African American students to enroll at all-white schools after the ruling.
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Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer Michael Cohen has taken the stand as former president Donald Trump's hush money trial enters its fourth week. Witnesses, text messages, notes and audio recordings have taken center stage to illustrate what prosecutors have said was a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by buying and burying negative stories that might hurt Trump's campaign. The former president who is accused of falsifying internal business records to cover up hush money payments by logging them as legal expenses has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts
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Gee’s Bend quilts have captured the public’s imagination with their kaleidoscopic colors and their daring geometric patterns. Direct descendants of slaves in rural Alabama managed to cultivate a groundbreaking art practice while facing oppression, geographic isolation and intense material constraints. This year Target launched a mass produced collection based on five quilters' designs raising questions about what is lost when a cultural tradition is commercialized.
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In 1965, Ronald Yancey made history as the first Black student to graduate from the Georgia Institute of Technology(also known as Georgia Tech). Almost 60 years later, he’s passing his academic legacy on to his granddaughter.
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Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston, an assistant professor of history at Howard University and author of the acclaimed book “Mary McLeod Bethune the Pan-Africanist,” has detected a palpable shift in national sentiment.
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Despite overall declines in cancer deaths, Black women continue to face disproportionately high mortality rates, a phenomenon the organization aims to address through its newly unveiled VOICES of Black Women study.
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Senior Airman Roger Fortson (U.S. Air Force via AP)
The mother of a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was fatally shot by deputies who burst into his apartment in the Florida Panhandle began crying while listening to her family’s attorney recount the death of her son.The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, said that Senior Airmen Roger Fortson said Okaloosa County sheriff’s deputies responding to a disturbance call at the apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot Fortson when they saw he was armed with a gun.
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