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Election Protection: Help for Voters, Don’t Be Misled, or Turned Away at the Polls
Some voters are misled, or get turned away at the polls. Sometimes the cause is a lack of good information; sometimes political groups purposefully deceive people they don’t want to vote – it has happened in North Carolina …
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GOP Higher Education Bill Reauthorization: More Rogue For-Profit Colleges and Private Lenders
AFT President Randi Weingarten and United University Professions President Frederick Kowal issued the following statement condemning House Republicans’ plan to reauthorize the Higher Education Act …
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Full Support for NFL Players to Undertake Comprehensive Action To Address Police Shooting Crisis
The request for a meeting comes days after President Trump has continued to attack NFL players who have peacefully chosen to Take a Knee to sustain public awareness around the police shooting crisis …
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Minor Beaten and Raped in Florida Prison Wins Settlement in SPLC And FLS Suit
A minor who was raped and beaten unconscious by other prisoners at Sumter Correctional Institution in Bushnell, Florida will receive $60,000 as part of a legal settlement with a guard who failed to intervene in the assault.
Read MoreNorth Carolina NAACP Statement on the U.S. Senate Tax Scam
The NC NAACP stands with and defends all who are colored by the sin of discrimination. Those who have created and lobbied for the US Senate Tax “Reform” Bill–including Acting-President Trump–are guilty of not one, but three sins.
Read MoreReversing Poverty One Job at a Time, This Guide Is a Helpful Start
By Leila Janah
Despite trillions of dollars in Western aid, 2.8 billion people worldwide still struggle in abject poverty. Yet the world’s richest countries continue to send money—mostly to governments—targeting the symptoms, rather than the root causes of poverty.
Who Didn’t Vote in Virginia?
Democrats won the Governorship by almost 9% and picked up 15, maybe 15+ seats in the State’s House of Delegates (our State House). Four races are subject to a recount. In one recount the Democrat is very likely the ultimate winner.
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national survey by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University.
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Voting at Black Colleges Could Drop 30 Percent, Can Dems Fix the Apathy?
Voter turnout among the estimated 300,000 students at HBCUs fell nearly 11 percent from 2012 to 2016, according to a national survey by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University.
Read MoreGDN Newspaper Edition November 30, 2017
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Read MoreWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Beverly Daniel Tatum’s 1997 book on race relations — Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? — has become a modern classic in college and high school classrooms, used to educate and prompt healthy discussions among young people about race.
