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Black Edutainers bring History to Life

K. Barrett Bilali, Urban News Service -
Philadelphia resident Antoine Randolph Watts likes to dress up. But most of his outfits are out of date. Like 200 years out of date.And...
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Broderick Johnson is His Brother’s Keeper

Michael H. Cottman, Urban News Service -
Broderick Johnson sees young black men on America’s streets taking long drags off short smokes.“It’s the idleness,” said Johnson, a Baltimore native and advisor...
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Criminal Justice Reform Snagged in Campaign Politics

Dee Hunter, Urban News Service -
Planned reforms to federal drug and sentencing laws that imprisoned many African-Americans have become locked up by election-year politics.“The cost of incarceration and a...
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Criminal Justice Reform Snagged in Campaign Politics

Dee Hunter, Urban News Service -
Planned reforms to federal drug and sentencing laws that imprisoned many African-Americans have become locked up by election-year politics.“The cost of incarceration and a...
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Churches Go Green, Save Green, Clean God’s Green Earth

Avis Thomas-Lester, Urban News Service -
The biggest challenge at the Reverend Dr. Earl D. Trent, Jr.’s historic black church is raising enough money to do the Lord’s work.Trent, pastor...
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Was it Civil Rights or a Movement?

Avis Thomas-Lester, Urban News Service -
They fought for integration, equal education and voter registration.There were Freedom Rides, a march on Washington and mayhem on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge. There...
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From civil war to civil rights, Frank Smith lives Black History

Avis Thomas-Lester, Urban News Service -
Frank Smith, Jr. emerged from a Mississippi jail and learned that he was wanted — by Uncle Sam.The 20-year-old civil rights worker had been...
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Foreclosure crisis still hammers African-Americans

Avis Thomas Lester, Urban News Service -
Willie Ann Lytle faced foreclosure on her home two days before Halloween. So she filed for bankruptcy to save it.Lytle’s parents bought the cheerful...
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The Hollywood Diversity Fix

Ronda Racha Penrice - Urban News Service -
There’s nothing new about #OscarsSoWhite. Once upon a time, Hollywood’s diversity battle stretched as far as The White House.For the second year in a...
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Artist Misses New Orleans 10 Mardi Gras Since Katrina

Eric Easter, Urban News Service -
Jennifer Renee Johnson desperately misses New Orleans during Mardi Gras. But the New Orleans she misses, she says, no longer exists.Johnson is one of...
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