Mumia Abu-Jamal praises pro-Palestine student activists

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In an address to students at the City University of New York on Friday night, the incarcerated Black political activist Mumia Abu-Jamal praised the pro-Palestinian growing at U.S. colleges as being on the right side of history. “It is a wonderful thing that you have decided not to be silent and decided to speak out…

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Stacy Abrams, a Spelman graduate, gets into Howard 

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Stacey Abrams, who ran twice for Georgia governor, has been appointed as the inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University.  Ronald W. Walters, Ph.D., was an internationally renowned scholar, activist, and expert on the African Diaspora. He died in 2010. “Stacy Abrams has proven herself an essential voice…

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