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Max Robinson | The obscurity of America’s first black news anchor
WEBMar 20, 2017 · Illustration by Iain Duffus. It’s been almost three decades since American news outlets rushed to report the unexpected death of Maxie Cleveland “Max” Robinson — the Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker and journalist who became America’s first black nightly news anchor after joining “ABC’s World …
AAVE is not your internet slang. It is Black culture.
WEBFeb 18, 2021 · African American Vernacular English, more famously known as AAVE or Ebonics, is a dialect of American English spoken frequently in the Black community. AAVE is commonly associated with a difference in pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary from the standard American English dialect. AAVE is …
Lowering the cost of public college is essential and reasonable
WEBFeb 9, 2022 · Lowering the cost of public college is essential and reasonable. Ethan Kuhstoss, Contributing Writer. $40,000. That’s the average cost of public university tuition over a four year period. That number doesn’t account for housing, fees, student loan interest, textbooks and the many other expenses associated with attending college.
Students rally for reinstatement of African American studies …
WEBNov 19, 2019 · Katharine DeRosa, Contributing Writer. A group of 10 students sat in former assistant professor Travis Harris’ old classroom on Thursday during their former class meeting time to discuss their plans to push for his reinstatement. Harris’ former students said they felt neglected by VCU and the chair of the African American studies department ...
Lasting legacy of “Catcher in the Rye” - The Commonwealth Times
WEBOct 11, 2018 · No book has touched as many teenage souls as “The Catcher in the Rye” has. There must be a reason millions of copies are sold every year. Controversy rose again when “The Catcher in the Rye” was found with Mark David Chapman after he murdered John Lennon. The novel is cited as one of the inspirations for Chapman to …
‘Organ Thieves’ author calls on MCV to apologize for 1968 heart ...
WEBFeb 17, 2021 · Now, author Chip Jones is calling on VCU Health to issue a public apology for its treatment of Tucker. “I don’t know what will be done,” Jones said. “But at this point all I can do is be an advocate for something to be done.”. Jones’ book, “The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in the Segregated South ...
Black artists with disabilities call for greater inclusion in hip-hop
WEBOct 28, 2020 · From an early age, artist with cerebral palsy Leroy Moore Jr. said he recognized the limited opportunities for people with disabilities. Now, he and a collective of 800 musicians, poets and visual artists are shifting the dialogue within hip-hop culture through Krip-Hop Nation. “I’ve been an activist since birth,” Moore said.
Richmond ranks among nation’s deadliest cities - The …
WEBMar 15, 2016 · Photo by Sarah King. Richmond is among the nation’s “murder capitals” according to a set of new data that listed three Virginia cities as some of the most deadly cities in America. The River City, which has a population of more than 200,000, was number six in a ranking of the 30 cities and counties with the most murders in the country.
The problem with representation in literature
WEBFeb 6, 2018 · A lack of diversity among authors leads to a lack of representation of characters in books, leading to few stories students of color can relate to which makes it hard to motivate them to read. The Washington Post published “The Long, Steady Decline of Literary Reading,” which found in 2015, 50 percent of White people were likely to read ...
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