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• Black Students Held At Gunpoint By Harvard Police After False 911 Call

  09-04-2023 16:24
  
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  Four Black students at Harvard University were forced out of their dorm rooms and held at gunpoint by campus police, according to a university newspaper.
  On Monday (April 3), Jarah K. Cotton, Jazmin N. Dunlap, David G. Madzivanyika, and Alexandra C. René, seniors at Harvard, were woken up by Harvard campus police officers banging on their door after the department received a false emergency call, per the Harvard Crimson.
  Officers came in with guns and ordered the stude
  
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• Black singles with college education embrace life without marriage

  09-04-2023 15:56
  
  A new book titled ‘The Love Jones Cohort’ examines the lifestyles of middle-class Black Americans. Morsa Images/DigitalVision Collection/Getty Images
  by Kris Marsh, University of Maryland
  Why is it seemingly OK to ask single people “Why are you single?” when married people are rarely asked “Why are you married?”
  Sociologist Kris Marsh hopes to break this double-standard with her new book “The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle
  
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