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Single mother graduates from UCLA with three degrees

by Carrie Healey, theGrio.com A single mother of three boys, Deanna Jordan, graduated over the weekend from UCLA with three degrees. Jordan grew up in Compton and, by 22, was a mother of three. “I needed for my sons to see there was a legacy that preceded them with college,” Jordan told CBS Los Angeles. “I am the first in my…

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Was the Author of The Three Musketeers a Black Man?

Alexandre Dumas wrote some of the best-known literature, but few people know about his personal life–or ethnicity.

Black teen says teacher told him to say ‘Yes sir, master’

by theGrio.com Jabre White said he was stunned and angry when he claims his teacher implied White was his slave and the teacher was his master. White tells the Des Moines Register’s Lee Rood his teacher Shawn McCurtain asked the class to move downstairs to take an economics final exam. White replied “Yes sir,” but he claims McCurtain replied,…

Tony Awards 2014 Belong to Audra McDonald

BY: STEPHEN A. CROCKETT JR., TheRoot.com Sunday night’s 68th Annual Tony Awards were all about Audra McDonald and James Monroe Iglehart, as one became the most decorated Broadway actress of all time with her win and the other saw his decision to surpass being a pro wrestler and a Harlem Globetrotter pay off with his first…

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Jeralean Talley, oldest-living American, celebrates 115th birthday

Discover how Michigander Jeralean Talley lives life as a 115-year-old, having surpassed all other Americans.

News Police: Teacher had sex with student, knowingly exposed him to HIV

by Carrie Healey, thegrio.com A former Louisiana high school teacher and track coach is accused of having sex with one of his student athletes and knowingly exposing him to HIV. Derrick Nesby, 37, was arrested by Terreboone Parish sheriff’s deputies last week and charged with felony carnal knowledge of a juvenile and felony intentional exposure…

White Teacher Reinstated After Blackface Lesson

By Breanna Edwards, theRoot.com A Michigan middle school teacher’s suspension for teaching his eighth-grade class about blackface has ended after almost two weeks. Alan Barron returned to his job at Monroe Middle School on Monday, CBS Detroit reports. Barron, 59, was showing his class a video about how white entertainers used to put on blackface to…

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Dr. Maya Angelou Funeral Details

By NewsOne Staff, NewsOne.com Funeral services for Dr. Maya Angelou, who died last Wednesday at 86-years-old, will be held Saturday morning on the campus of Wake Forest University, reports WXII. Heads of states and other dignitaries are expected to attend the private service, but no names have been confirmed. Prior to her death, Dr. Angelou had been a faculty…

Donald Sterling Goes to a Black Baptist Church (This Is Not a Joke)

 By Stephen A. Crockett Jr., theRoot.com Donald Sterling walks into a black church … no, seriously: Donald Sterling the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner walked into a South Los Angeles church and sat for a two-hour service Sunday, TMZ reports. It is unclear if Sterling, who arrived at the Praises of Zion Baptist church with bodyguards,…

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Some Good News about Black Males’ Academic Success!

Good News #1: The 9 Biggest Lies About Black Males and Academic Success By Ivory A. Toldson, PhD, theRoot.com (Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Dr. Toldson’s speech to the inaugural summit of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans: Addressing the Socio-Cultural Factors Impacting the Academic Achievement and Development of…

Dr. James Cameron Featured in New Book about Supersurvivors!

  SUPERSURVIVORS: The Surprising Link Between Suffering & Success By David B. Feldman, PhD and Lee Daniel Kravetz (To order this book so that part of the proceeds supports this museum, click here.) A New York businesswoman struck by cancer changes her life and becomes an international rock star. A man loses his eyesight and…

Transgendered Student Denied Equal Treatment

By Emily Thomas, HuffingtonPost.com A transgender college sophomore who identifies as male has been barred from living in all-male dorms, and now his lawyer has lodged a federal complaint against the university. George Fox University, a Christian school in Newberg, Ore., says officials denied the student’s December request to live with his male friends because…

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Press promotes ‘no snitching’ to slam Sharpton

by David A. Wilson, theGrio.com This morning I woke up to headlines from New York Post and the New York Daily News that could very well have been written by Tony Soprano himself. The local NYC tabloids derided Rev. Al Sharpton as both a “rat” and a “snitch” for his alleged cooperation with the FBI-NYPD in the…

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Health Care Enrollment

By Jeffrey Young, HuffingtonPost.com On the last day to sign up for Obamacare, evidence appears to be mounting that what started as a disaster may turn out a success. Monday is the deadline to enroll in health insurance for 2014 via the health insurance exchanges created by President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, and it’s clear…

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The Nation’s Most Segregated Schools Aren’t Where You’d Think They’d Be

A recent study has found that a complex racial history and a lack of programs encouraging diversity have helped New York schools claim the title as the most segregated in the nation. By Stephen A. Crockett Jr. , theRoot.com New York state’s public school system is the most segregated in the country because most of…

Video: Black Youth, Black Police & Transformative Justice

Members of BYP100, a black youth activist organization, have a dialogue with a black police officer after being profiled on Princeton University’s campus, where they had convened for a conference. Watch the dialogue here: To learn more about the Black Youth Project100, click here. For more breaking news, click here.

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Google Celebrates Black History Today

Google honored Civil Rights activist Dorothy Height with a “Doodle” on the search page today.

Jan Buchler, who recently retired as the director of a community-based organization, served as a facilitator of one of the diverse dialog groups at the 100th Birthday Celebration for Dr. James Cameron: A Gathering for Racial Repair and Reconciliation. (James Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Racial Repair and Reconciliation: A Homecoming

By Dr. Fran Kaplan, Guest Blogger, Wisconsin Humanities Note: Staff of the Wisconsin Humanities Council (WHC) asked ABHM’s Virtual Museum Director to blog about her personal reactions to the Gathering for Racial Repair and Reconciliation that honored the museum’s founder, Dr. James Cameron, in February 2014. WHC funded the Gathering. (…) As I looked around…

Where Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?

By Walter Dean Myers, The New York Times Of 3,200 children’s books published in 2013, just 93 were about black people, according to a study by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin. (…) As I discovered who I was, a black teenager in a white-dominated world, I saw that these characters,…

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Why Black Women Die of Cancer

By Harold P. Freeman, New York Times SINCE the early 1970s, studies have shown that black Americans have a higher death rate from cancer than any other racial or ethnic group. This is especially true when it comes to breast cancer. A study published last week in the journal Cancer Epidemiology found that, in a…

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8 Influential Women of 2014

By Charlotte Alfred, HuffingtonPost.com 1. Afghanistan’s first female police chief showed the world what courage looks like. Col. Jamila Bayaz was appointed to run security in the Kabul’s District 1 in January, becoming the first woman in such a senior frontline role. The mother-of-5 is responsible for policing an area of the Afghan capital that…