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On January 31, 1865, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment which, on ratification, abolished slavery in America. The vote in the House was 121 to 24.(AP Photo)

Ohio school sorry for making black student 'slave'

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GAHANNA, Ohio (AP) - The mother of a black Ohio fifth grader assigned to play a slave for a social studies lesson says the school should be more sensitive...
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Is UNCF's fight for HBCUs a 'waste' of mindpower?

Lawrence C. Ross
OPINION - 'A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste' was and is a brilliant slogan for HBCUs who've historically provided the backbone of college education for blacks in this country...
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Oprah’s South African schoolOpening her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa, which Winfrey shared on both January 17, 2007 broadcast as well as her February 27, 2007 primetime special, ignited a debate about why she didn’t open a school in the U.S.

Police probe death of baby born to Oprah student

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Police are investigating whether to file charges after the death of a newborn baby born to a student at Oprah Winfrey's elite South African high school...
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Theft charge dismissed against Ohio mom Kelley Williams-Bolar

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COLOR LINES - The 40-year-old single mother of two works as a teacher's assistant for special needs kids at a nearby high school and is going to school for her own teacher certification...
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Spike Lee urges more black men to become teachers

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ATLANTA (AP) - "Everybody can't be a business major," Lee told the auditorium packed with male high school and college students...
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High school uses racial segregation as learning tool

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PHILADELPHIA - The segregation is intended to be a mentoring program, with African-American teachers acting as role models, encouraging students to strive for a bright future...
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Is 'gaming the system' ever justified?

Mychal Denzel Smith
OPINION - When do we stop pretending that Kelley Williams-Bolar's actions exist in some sort of vacuum?...
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Local NAACP urges boycott of Charlotte over MLK school day

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NAACP President also said his group would ask the national NAACP to consider asking the Democratic Party not to hold its 2012 convention in Charlotte...
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1) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Arguably the most famous African-American of all time and one of the most influential Americans of any race, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement for many. Rising to prominence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a pivotal blow against segregation, King, a fiery orator, inspired a nation with his “I Have a Dream” speech delivered during 1963’s historic March on Washington, one of the Lincoln Memorial’s largest.Recognized as an international human rights leader, King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, becoming its youngest recipient. His April 4, 1968 assassination in Memphis, where he traveled to support the Memphis Sanitation Strike, shook the nation, with many cities erupting in violence.Unwilling to let her husband’s legacy die, Coretta Scott King immediately created the King Center near her husband’s Atlanta birth home and campaigned tirelessly for decades for a national holiday in his honor.(AP Photo)

NAACP chapter blasts a call for classes on MLK day

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The city's NAACP chapter called Wednesday on area clergy to urge church members to keep their children home...
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Memphis middle school fights sagging with 'Urkel'

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VIDEO - At a time when kids parade through town and school with pants hanging well below their rear ends, Westside Principal Bobby White helped create a new gimmick to get them to pull up their pants...
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