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A controversial topic has come to the Brazos Valley. There's a new spin on Pro-Life billboards. These target the African American community -- where statistics show mothers have a disproportionate number of abortions , as much as 2 times more than other races.
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Pointing to striking
similarities with a 1999 case that made national headlines -- the
expulsion of six black high school students in Decatur for fighting --
local pastors met Tuesday with Proviso East High School officials in
Maywood hoping to get three expelled African-American students
reinstated.The Rev. Michael Stinson, from left, Erica Edmond and her son Coris Ashford, and Lavonne Glenn and Morelle Foster met Tuesday in a bid to have the three expelled teens reinstated at Proviso East High School in Maywood.
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New data from Nielsen shows that African Americans average more than
1,300 minutes a month texting and talking, followed by Hispanics at 826
minutes, Asian/Pacific Islanders at 692 minutes, and whites at 647
minutes each month.
On August 28, 1955, Chicago teen Emmett Till was
kidnapped and lynched for whistling at a white woman in the segregated
South while visiting his family in Money, Miss.
Almost 50 years ago Saturday, Martin Luther
King Jr. transformed the steps of the Lincoln Memorial into a modern-day
pulpit with his message of faith and hope. He stood before the world
and shared his vision for a different, better America. He inspired all
of us to reach for our higher selves and lay down the burden of racial
discrimination and hate.
What Rodrick Yarbrough saw when he walked into his living room late one
evening changed his life: His 3-year-old son was rolling up a sheet of
paper like a marijuana joint. Little Rodrick Jr. wasn't imitating what
he'd seen on TV or learned from the bigger kids at the playground. He
was mimicking Dad.
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Certified nursing assistant Brenda Chaney was on duty in an Indiana
nursing home one day when she discovered a patient lying on the floor,
unable to stand.
A recent study
by the Schott Foundation for Public Education reported that Newark, New
Jersey leads the nation in the percent of African American male
students graduating from high school, followed by Maryland, California
and Pennsylvania. The report revealed "alarming data" from other states
and districts that points to a "national education and economic
crisis", said the Schott Foundation in a press release. Read More
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