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• Paul Ajegba: Champion of Transportation Innovation Honored as UofM CEE Alumni of the Year

  29-10-2023 16:22
  
  Paul C. Ajegba, a distinguished alumni of the University of Michigan College of Engineering (CEE), has been honored with the prestigious 2023 Alumni Merit Award. This esteemed recognition is bestowed upon CEE graduates who exemplify the motto “leaders and best” and have made exceptional contributions to their communities, enriching lives through their dedicated efforts. The award acknowledges their remarkable accomplishments and influential projects undertaken following graduation.
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• Want Kids to Achieve? Heal Racism’s Wounds

  29-10-2023 15:00
  
  By Joseph Williams
  Ashanti Branch was failing, and he wasn’t sure why. 
  In 2004, not long after abandoning a promising, lucrative career as an engineer, Branch found himself among the ranks of underpaid, overworked teachers at San Lorenzo High School in Oakland, California, the hometown he thought he’d left behind. 
  Fueled by a knack for math and a passion for helping his struggling community, Branch was a successful rookie teacher at the under-resourced school. But he noti
  
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• The Healing Power of Black Men Being Vulnerable Together

  29-10-2023 15:00
  
  Jourdan Sorrell and Darrious Hilmon of “Brothers Talking.” Credit: YouTube/Brothers Talking
  By Joseph Williams
  The way Jourdan Sorrell sees it, between microaggressions at the office, the threat of getting stopped or shot by police, and societal definitions of masculinity, Black men in America are in a constant existential struggle. With the stress of moving through a world that often sees them as a threat, there isn’t much time to decompress, let alone heal. 
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• Video Shows Milwaukee Deputy Repeatedly Hitting 17-Year-Old Girl At Zoo

  29-10-2023 14:15
  
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  A Milwaukee County deputy was caught on video punching a 17-year-old girl, per CBS 58.
  The incident unfolded on Sunday (Oct. 22) when Envy Hampton, 17, and her friends Keviona Brown and Alivia Jee visited the Milwaukee County Zoo.
  “We wanted to go have fun and go home and it was just a problem after that,” Jee said.
  As they were leaving the zoo, the friends said they were surrounded by deputies. Hampton’s sister, Nayah Dowell, 26, who came to pick up the gro
  
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• Loyola University Chicago Celebrates Mamie Till-Mobley Scholarship Luncheon

  29-10-2023 14:00
  
  On Saturday, the Loyola University Chicago Black Alumni Board hosted the second annual Mamie Till-Mobley Scholarship luncheon to celebrate LUC alumna and raise funds for the scholarship.
  In 2022, Loyola established the scholarship in honor of Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till and a 1971 graduate of the University’s Graduate School of Education. The scholarship, sponsored by Loyola’s Black Alumni Board, aims to elevate Mamie Till-Mobley’s courage, wisdom, creativ
  
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• Black Student Says School Counselor Called Her College List ‘Too Ambitious’

  29-10-2023 13:30
  
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  A Black student said a guidance counselor called the list of colleges she wished to attend “ambitious.”
  In the upcoming book “Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education,” Dr. Jasmine L. Harris details her experience as a 17-year-old student whose guidance counselor shot down her college list, per Newsweek.
  “He said what to you?” Harris recalled her mother saying. “He called my list ambitious,
  
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• Davis, Clarke, Jackson, Kelly Create Caucus for Predominantly Black Institutions

  29-10-2023 13:00
  
  Predominantly Black Institutions represent an increasing cadre of 4-year and 2-year institutions that educate urban and rural Black students whose personal and financial situations limit their ability to pursue higher education in many states
  On Wednesday, Representative Danny K. Davis (D-IL), Representative Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY), Representative Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), and Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL) announced the establishment of a new Congressional Caucus focused on educating policyma
  
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