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Dear Muva: I recently learned from my mother that the man who I thought was my father, was not. I met my birth father a few months ago, and while I want to get to know him, things are a little awkward, because his youngest daughter wants no parts of me, and tells me not…

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By Danae Reid The struggle for equality has been arduous and interminable, yet it still feels like we’ve barely scratched the surface. With the emergence of the internet came a flood of “newfangled” information and advocacy that has birthed numerous movements, social media postings, discussions, movies, television shows and more that address the moot dynamics…

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By Jesse Jackson TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM The reaction — shock, joy, disbelief, euphoria — revealed the importance of Robert F. Smith’s stunning gift, when he announced, unexpectedly, that he would pay off all the college debts of Morehouse College students graduating this year. His gift literally changed the prospects and the lives of the vast majority of…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Ana Bhowmik, a lead mentor for iPraxis, teaches middle school students at Dr. Tanner G. Duckrey Public School how the density of an object can be determined through water volume displacement and surface tension. (iPraxis photos courtesy of Leland Laury) By Danaé Reid The number of Black and Hispanic people entering the STEM (Science, Technology,…

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By Jesse Jackson TRICEEDNEYWIRE.COM Alabama — led by utterly clueless male legislators — just passed the most restrictive ban on abortion in the country, with Georgia and Missouri piling on. Other states dominated by right-wing Republican politicians are jockeying to join in. Their aim is to get the courts, newly packed with right-wing judges appointed…

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By Marc H. Morial TriceEdneyWire.com “How bad are school vouchers for students? Far worse than most people imagine. Indeed, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one-third of a year of classroom learning.” – Center for…

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ABOVE PHOTO: White and black grade school youngsters study together in harmony at the consolidated school in Hoxie, Ark., Aug 15, 1955. The community of 1,855 de-segregated its school in July by taking in 23 Black students. (AP Photo)  Brown is more than a historic ruling. It paved the way for civil rights progress and laid…

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By Danae Reid  As a college graduate still in pursuit of settling into my career a year post-grad, I’ve been exasperatingly questioning two things: Does this country value education and is college “worth” it? Over the past weekend, we learned that billionaire Robert F. Smith, the founder of Vista Equity partners, surprised the Morehouse College…

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Dear Muva: How do you learn to love and relinquish control in building a romantic relationship, when you have been raised to be strong and independent, and you did not grow up watching a healthy marriage? Signed, “too strong for my own good” Dear “too strong for my own good,” Your question is such a…

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By Andrea Lawful Sanders In October of 2017, after many rumblings that something was amiss because numerous women were speaking up in solidarity at public events about being sexually harassed, abused and then dismissed, American film producer Harvey Weinstein became the first well-known male, who was accused and recused from his powerful position. He began…

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