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In recent weeks, stories of students at the University of Missouri, Ithaca College, and Yale taking a stand against racial discrimination and racial inequality have surfaced. We’ve…

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First Lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school’shistory and to pass their commitment to education on to future generations. In her 15-minute address, the first lady touched on the university’s founding in 1865 […]

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  *It was just a few months ago it seems that First Lady Michelle Obama‘s bangs were all the rage. To be honest, and for the record, there was a chorus of folks who just weren’t feeling them, designer Karl Lagerfeld among them. She said the look was in response to her  “mid-life crisis,” noting that she’s less than […]

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First Lady Michelle Obama visits Harper High School in the Englewood neighborhood to talk with students about the plague of violence in their area April 10, 2013 in Chicago *This year, First Lady Michelle Obama will deliver commencement addresses at Bowie State University, Eastern Kentucky University and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Magnet High […]