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In its first season, “Daughters In America,” earns rave reviews. Created and written by Liberian artist Love Weah, the web-series aims to unify women from the African continent who are living abroad. “I want to inspire women to discover beauty within themselves,” said the international fashion model and founder of Goddess Defined MagBooks,... -
In its third season, “Daughters In America,” gets rave reviews. Created and written by Liberian artist Love Weah, the show aims to unify women from the African continent who are living abroad. “I want to inspire women to discover beauty within themselves,” says the international fashion model and founder of...
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Do you remember your first crush? How old were you? Did you tell him/her? Did they like you back? Did you tell your mom/dad? What did they say? What age did you start dating? When/where was your first kiss? I can’t remember the answer to half of these questions,...
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Every senior at Urban Prep Charter Academy, a predominately African-American all-boys charter school in Chicago, has been accepted and committed to a four year college or university. For seven consecutive years, the Academy’s senior class has had 100 percent of their students admitted to colleges throughout the nation. Collectively,... -
On May 1, 1959 the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors made the harsh decision to close its schools to all students -both Black and White. The schools remained closed between 1959 through 1964. Prince Edward County was the only school district in the United States of America... -
Speaking to a crowd of Prince Edward County, Virginia residents at the historic First Baptist Church in Farmville, Virginia on Sunday April 24th, civil rights leader, Rev. J. Samuel Williams, Jr. urged his audience -at the Johns-Griffin Day Celebration- to continue to “take the LORD for the way,”... -
Every weekend Saber Hosseini, a schoolteacher in central Afghanistan, piles his bicycle with hundreds of books and travels to villages where children don’t have schools. Turning his bike into a mobile library while cruising the countryside, Hosseini provides youth an opportunity to read. “Many of the children are... -
On April 23, 1951, in an effort to protest shoddy conditions at their aging school, African American students in Prince Edward County, Virginia made the decision to walk out of Robert R. Moton High School. The Rev. L. Francis Griffin led the fight for students as well as parents...
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How many of you love a good Gummy Worm or some Smarties? I know I do on occasion (and not just on Halloween) but as of late we have to be truly vigilant about the candy our children receive. Four kids in Gulfport, Florida were hospitalized after they ingested the...
