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• Experts Warn Of Rip Currents After Malcolm Jamal-Warner’s Drowning Death

  25-07-2025 23:45
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  The drowning death of actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his role as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has called attention to water safety, particularly when facing rip currents, per Fox Digital.
  Warner, 54, died on Sunday (July 20) after being pulled into the ocean by a rip current during a family vacation in Costa Rica. Bystanders dove into the water to help Warner and his eight-year-old daughter, but they were unable to revive the actor.
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• Howard University Students Blindsided By Tuition Bills After System Switch

  25-07-2025 23:02
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  Howard University says it’s working to help students who reported being blindsided by unexpected tuition balances following a switch to a new student platform, per NBC News.
  At least 1,000 students were notified that they owed money to the HBCU, with some balances dating back two years. Howard students took to social media to share their experience, which has garnered national attention and crowdfunding efforts to help cover the tuition costs.
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• ‘Dirty Black Monkey’: White Woman Launches Racist Tirade At Grocery Store

  25-07-2025 22:30
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  A white woman was kicked out of a San Francisco grocery store after she launched a racist tirade against Black employees and customers.
  Video of the incident shows the woman being escorted out of a Safeway grocery store in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood after she had verbally abused several people. The woman continued her racist rant in the store’s parking lot, which was caught on now-viral video shared on Instagram.
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• PRESS ROOM: Black Church and Black Press Unite to Empower Black America

  25-07-2025 21:30
  Nashville, TN — July 25, 2025: In a historic announcement, a coalition of leading Black faith organizations and the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) unveiled a strategic partnership and plan to confront systemic disparities impacting African American communities nationwide.
  Dr. Boise Kimber, President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.; Bishop J. Drew Sheard, Pre- siding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC); Dr. Samuel Tolbert, President of the National
  
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