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• Twitter Reacts To White Substitute Wearing Black Teacher’s AKA Jacket

  30-09-2023 18:41
  
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  A white substitute teacher has sparked backlash after she appeared to wear another teacher’s AKA jacket in a photo that’s gone viral.
  On Thursday (September 28), a social media user shared a photo of the sub sporting a letterman jacket for Alpha Kappa Alpha organization, the oldest Greek-letter organization for African American college women.
  “Y’all why i’m in class and we got a sub and she gon grab our teacher’s AKA jacket and put it on an
  
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• Tupac Shakur Witness Charged with Murder

  30-09-2023 16:00
  
  Duane “Keffe D” Davis, a witness to Tupac Shakur’s murder, was charged with the crime on Friday after a Nevada grand jury indicted him on one count of murder with a deadly weapon.
   
  Davis admitted in his 2019 memoir that he was in the Cadillac that pulled up next to Shakur’s BMW on the night of the shooting and that he slipped the gun into the backseat. He also implicated his nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, as one of the two people in the backseat
  
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• Search Continues For Black Mother Who Went Missing Nearly Week Ago

  30-09-2023 15:00
  
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  A family is seeking answers after a 21-year-old Houston mother went missing nearly a week ago, KPRC reports.
  Deuandrea Ford, 21, was last seen at Divas Bikini Bar N Grill, where she works, on September 21. She is 5’4″, 170 pounds, and was last seen wearing a black tank top and tan pants.
  “I feel like something’s wrong,” Bridgette Carriere, Ford’s grandmother, said.
  Carriere said it’s unusual for Ford to disappear for days and not cont
  
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• Museum Brings Emmett Till Exhibit to Inspire Future Generations

  30-09-2023 14:30
  
  By Globe Newswire
  The traveling exhibition Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See will open at the National Civil Rights Museum on October 7. Because Emmett Till’s story impacted multi-generations, it is important for the Museum to preserve its legacy and lessons for future generations.
  “Let the world see what they did to my baby,” was the declaration Mamie Till engraved in the annals of history. The exhibit shares how a mother’s bravery and fight for just
  
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• Galleries, glitch, and more

  30-09-2023 01:09 via chicagoreader.com
  
  “Violets and Daisies”At M. LeBlanc through 10/29: Wed-Sat noon-6 PM, 3514 W. Fullerton, 773-360-7178, mleblancchicago.com Fall is prime gallery season, and I’m looking forward to “Violets and Daisies,” the second solo show by artist Cameron Spratley at M. LeBlanc (3514 W. Fullerton). Spratley is a rising figure in Chicago’s contemporary Black painting community and was […]
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