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On April 16th, what started off as a normal day would turn into something completely different not only for me but the entire Shaw family. My day started with a meeting with our sorority graduate chapter at the graduate house only minutes from school. What I thought would be a rather long meeting, turned into […]

Via:necolebitchie.com I ran across an AMAZING video of Lauryn Hill earlier this week via Concrete Loop. In the video, which was filmed 10 years ago, Lauryn Hill speaks to High School students about her career, childhood and more. Lauryn was 25 years old at the time and at the peak of her career but she […]

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Jefferson Thomas, who as a teenager was among nine black students to integrate a Little Rock high school in the nation’s first major battle over school segregation, has died. Official commentary states that Thomas died Sunday in Ohio of pancreatic cancer, according to a Monday statement from Carlotta Walls LaNier, who also enrolled at Central […]

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A survey of 5,500 college students by a Ball State journalism professor reports that text messaging surpasses e-mail and instant message mediums. With only about a quarter using e-mail or instant messaging, 97 percent send and receive text messages. Michael Hanley, Ball State journalism professor found that 49 percent of mobile communication devices are smart […]

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What are your children learning in school these days? Some of them, like the high school students from the Warren County Career Center, will be following the courts and the legal action surrounding the ongoing trials in the Ryan Widmer case. They’ve actually already begun to follow the case and even had an opportunity to […]

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Jeezy Rewards Georgia Students For Passing Competency Exam Via: The Urban Daily With a new album just around the corner, Young Jeezy took time out of his schedule to do something positive for kids in a Georgia school.