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Black Girls Making Magic: Frelicia Tucker is Wendy’s 2016 High School Heisman

courtesy of Wendys. It was Frelicia Tucker’s father’s idea to get his twin daughters involved in track and tennis at a young age. But when Frelicia was just nine years old, she tragically lost her father during a home invasion. Moving beyond that pain has been unimaginably difficult. But her mother set the example, doing …

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Black Lives Matter Founders are Glamour’s Women of the Year

2016 has been a year of reactions to the police brutality in the black community.  We’ve seen many more celebrities speak out this year. There’s been more exposure of the injustice we face.  Yet, nothing has changed.  The rallying cry of Black Lives Matter has shined a light on the issues that we [black people] …

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America's School System

America’s school system could learn a LOT from this woman!

Without telling my age, schools just aren’t what they used to be.  When I was going to school, it was more of an extension of my home life.  My teachers and principals were like my aunts and uncles.  And my peers, were like cousins.  My parents knew my teachers, we all lived in the same neighborhoods. …

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How Four Teenage Girls Organized Huge Silent Protest

courtesy of Chicago Mag  Eva Lewis is someone you should know. She and three other black teenage girls were the driving force behind Monday’s massive sit-in protest in Millennium Park and subsequent march to protest gun violence and police brutality in Chicago. The event to “break the divide between communities, and bring youth from all areas …

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