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Creeping COVID-19 cases result in mask mandates for a few school districts

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Cambridge college to return stolen artwork to Nigeria

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Yara Shahidi asked to present Emmy early to ‘make it to class’ at Harvard

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Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

White House reverses story on Obama living with Kenyan uncle in the 1980s

NBC NEWS – The uncle, Onyango ‘Omar’ Obama, had been facing deportation, but was granted legal residency this week in Boston…
/ December 5, 2013
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

DC wax museum adds Harriet Tubman to collection

WASHINGTON (AP) – Descendants of Harriet Tubman have gathered at The President’s Gallery by Madame Tussauds and unveiled a wax statue of the woman who led hundreds of slaves to freedom….
/ February 8, 2012
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Harvard trains professors to integrate black history

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – College teachers around the country are participating in a summer institute aimed at integrating more black history into classrooms…
/ July 18, 2011
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

21 Oxbridge colleges took no black students last year

The university’s admissions data confirms that only one black Briton of Caribbean descent was accepted for undergraduate study at Oxford last year…
/ December 7, 2010
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. Crowley spotted together

Boston TV station WBZ is reporting on its website that Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sergeant James Crowley were seen together at a bar in Cambridge, MA…
/ October 29, 2009
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Black officer at Gates arrest speaks

A black police officer who witnessed the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates is now speaking up. Sgt. Leon Lashley says he saw what happened and he supports Sgt. James Crowley 100 percent.
/ July 27, 2009
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Cambridge police release Gates tapes

A woman who called 911 to report a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. makes no mention of race. Cambridge police released a recording of the call Monday after more than a week of controversy over Gates’ arrest on a disorderly conduct charge on July 16.
/ July 27, 2009