FATAL FIRE UPDATE: The victim in this morning's fatal fire in Buffalo Creek has been confirmed to be a 3 year old male. One adult female sustained injuries, condition unknown at this time. The fire's cause is still under investigation. NFI … [Read more...] about 3-Year-Old Boy Dies In West Virginia Apartment Fire
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DeRay McKesson Tweets – Then Deletes – Claim That Virginia Shooter Was White
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson continued his pattern of jumping to conclusions and getting his facts wrong on Wednesday when he tweeted out to his 200,000 followers that the man who fatally shot a TV reporter and cameraman in Virginia was white. … [Read more...] about DeRay McKesson Tweets – Then Deletes – Claim That Virginia Shooter Was White
Civil Rights Pioneer, ‘Freedom Rider’ Bruce Boynton Dies, At 83
One unidentified white man sits in front of Greyhound bus to prevent it from leaving the station with load of Freedom Riders testing bus station segregation in South, Sunday, May 15, 1961, Anniston, Alabama. Other white men mill around bus station. The bus was stopped by a flat tire and surrounded by a white crowd outside Anniston, and burned a short time later. The passengers got off without serious injury. (AP Photo) … [Read more...] about Civil Rights Pioneer, ‘Freedom Rider’ Bruce Boynton Dies, At 83
Aurora’s principal training could get a boost to send 11 more schools through university program
Of 14 schools that participated in the university program in the last three years, all but three earned satisfactory state ratings this year, and those three schools had only started the program this school year. Of the schools that started the program earlier, and that were already rated low and at risk of state intervention, all of them earned higher ratings. Other low-performing schools that went through the other training programs the district was trying, had mixed results. … [Read more...] about Aurora’s principal training could get a boost to send 11 more schools through university program
David N. Dinkins, New York’s first Black mayor, dies at 93
But the city was in trouble. Real estate and financial booms that had fueled its growth in the 1980s were over. The deepest local recession since the Great Depression had cut jobs and tax revenues and left a municipal budget hole of $1.8 billion. Homeless people occupied the streets. AIDS, heroin and crack cocaine were epidemic. Murders surpassed 1,900 a year. To the rest of the nation, the city of skyscrapers and soaring hopes seemed a cesspool of urban decay. … [Read more...] about David N. Dinkins, New York’s first Black mayor, dies at 93
