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Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 21 September 2023

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Rapper Megan Thee Stallion has teamed up with Frito-Lay’s Flamin’ Hot brand to raise money for her alma mater, Texas Southern University, with hopes to launch a HBCU scholarship fund of up to $150,000

Details: Written by MARY CLARE JALONICK and TARA COPP Associated Press; Published: 21 September 2023

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a weekly caucus meeting, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Gen. CQ Brown’s confirmation on a 83-11 vote, months after President Joe Biden nominated him for the post, comes as Democrats try to maneuver around holds placed on hundreds of nominations by Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville over the Pentagon’s abortion policy.

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 20 September 2023

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An Alabama high school band director said that he was just “doing my job” when police officers arrested him and shocked him with a stun gun after he refused to immediately stop the band as it played in the bleachers following a football game.

Details: Written by By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia; Published: 19 September 2023

Stacy Brown

Drawing on data from the National Center for Education Statistics from 1987 to 2020, officials said the discrepancies in appropriated funding ranged from $172 million to $2.1 billion, creating significant financial disparities.

Details: Written by Diana J. Wilkie, University of Florida; Published: 18 September 2023

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The pain from a heart attack is so bad that it can feel like an elephant sitting on you. Patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition affecting the red blood cells, report that this kind of pain begins before their first birthday and continues intermittently for a lifetime.

Details: Written by CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and JUAN LOZANO Associated Press; Published: 18 September 2023

(Darresha George via AP)

Darryl George, a junior at Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, was initially suspended the same week his state outlawed racial discrimination based on hairstyles.

Details: Written by GARY FIELDS and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press; Published: 17 September 2023

It’s been more than three months since the justices' 5-4 ruling, and the continued pushback from Republican legislatures in control of redistricting means there's great uncertainty about whether, or how soon, new maps offering equal representation for Black voters will be drawn

Details: Written by FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press; Published: 17 September 2023

The White House is calling the Republicans’ newly-launched impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden “extreme politics at its worst.” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced the inquiry Tuesday, the latest sign of the GOP leader yielding to mounting pressure from former President Donald Trump and his allies. McCarthy claims the president lied about his knowledge of his family’s business dealings

Details: Written by By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia; Published: 14 September 2023

Judge Rowan Wilson

Wilson, who had previously served as an associate judge of the Court of Appeals since 2017, assumed the role following the resignation of Judge Janet DiFiore in August 2022.

Details: Written by Erica Jacqueline Licht, Harvard Kennedy School; Published: 14 September 2023

Smiling students writing at her desk

For more than half a century, colleges and universities have relied on dedicated programs to attract students of color and support them. Today, those programs – known as diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs – are under attack.

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