Sima Shakeri HuffPost Canada After 10-year-old Kheris Rogers was bullied by classmates for her darker skin and transferred to a new school to escape the taunting, her older sister Taylor Pollard stepped in to help boost the girl’s confidence. “She started to notice she was different,” Pollard said in an
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By Roxanne Jones, CNN Updated 2:24 PM ET, Sun July 30, 2017 Three weeks ago, my house was pelted with watermelon rinds. No other garbage. Just watermelons. As soon as I heard the noise, I ran outside. When I saw the mess, I was enraged. I wanted to confront the
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By Yagana Shah 01/26/2016 12:27 pm ET Charles “LaLa” Evans and his wife, Louise, had often spoken about creating a museum for the hundreds of photographs they’d amassed in their decades of marriage. But only when Louise passed away just one month before their 60th wedding anniversary did Evans know
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By Eric Bradner, CNN Updated 9:19 PM ET, Fri June 30, 2017 Washington (CNN) Sen. Kamala Harris is using her newfound progressive stardom to raise money for her Democratic colleagues — and amplifying buzz about the California freshman as a prospect for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination in the process.
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By Janice Williams On 3/28/17 at 12:01 PM After recently telling some 211,000 followers to “get ready” for President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., took to Twitter once again to blast the commander in chief. Waters hasn’t been shy about using her social media to condemn policies and
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By Zahara Hill Twenty years ago, Stephanie Johnson became the first black female pilot for Northwest Airlines. And in 2016, Johnson made history again as Delta Air Lines’ first black female captain. Delta celebrated Johnson in February, but Women’s History Month is also a fitting time to recognize the aviation
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Abhinav Kini, International Business Times, Sun, Feb 12 Former world number one Andy Roddick believes Serena Williams should be regarded in the same vein as Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali as the greatest athlete of all time. Serena Williams recently won the 2017 Australian Open, beating her sister Venus Williams
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By Rick Moran November 24, 2016 A former spokesperson for Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign said on CNN that the Democratic Party needs “diversity” at the top levels of the Democratic National Committee, and added that “we don’t need white people leading the Democratic Party right now.” Symone Sanders also noted
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JASON DEAREN and CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple fraud charges and other federal offenses in a grand jury indictment unsealed after an investigation into what prosecutors call a phony charity
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Taryn Finley Black Voices Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Poet Clint Smith III takes a critical look at the Founding Fathers’ role in oppressing black people in his latest poem entitled “History Reconsidered.” His piece served as a letter to five of the United States presidents who owned slaves, George Washington,
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