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The North Carolina Central University Higher Education Administration Program and the School of Education invite you to the April 2023 Tuesdays Together National Speaker Series conversation with Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom, '09, NCCU alumna, New York Times columnist, 2020 MacArthur Genius Fellow, and UNC-Chapel Hill professor. The conversation is scheduled   on  Tuesday, April 18, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.  in the North Carolina Central University School of Education Room 1071, 700 Cecil St., Durham, NC 27702. See Also:   Former President Donald Trump's indictment could make turnout in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election 'unstable' Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a trenchant cultural critic, celebrated sociologist, and award-winning writer. She is known for rearranging your brain in the span of a carefully-turned phrase. Her breadth is phenomenal – it moves from the racial hierarchy of beauty standards and the class codes of dressing for work to the predation of f...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reported on financial disclosure forms that his family has earned thousands of dollars in rental income from a Nebraska real estate firm that has been shuttered since 2006, according to a report by the Washington Post Sunday. See Also: Senator Bernie Sanders also talks about his new book 'It's OK to be Angry about Capitalism.' Thomas has reported income from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership over the last two decades, but in 2006 it was shut down and replaced by a new firm, the report said. The new firm, Ginger Holdings, LLC, is similarly named, but there is no mention of it in Thomas' records. See Also: On CNN's State of the Union, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra doesn't say whether the FDA should ignore a federal judge's ruling to block access to abortion medication but tells Dana Bash that "everything is on the table." In recent years, Thomas reportedly continued to disclose between $50,000 and $100,...

Nikki Haley's presidential campaign has raised more than $11M in the first six weeks since announcing her candidacy See Also:  Former President Donald Trump lays out excellent plan to restore justice in America Nikki Haley ranks high on the list of Republicans who don't want to directly criticize Donald Trump.  See Also:   Former President Donald Trump's indictment could make turnout in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election 'unstable' In fact, she deflects every question about the front-runner and insists only the media are asking her about this. See Also: former President Trump and special counsel Jack Smith bringing a "new level of aggressiveness and urgency" at the Department of Justice But she came up with a not-so-subtle method of taking a few swipes at her rivals. It's called the confidential memo. And I can't exactly say it has no fingerprints. See Also: Trump's attorney Joe Tacopina: I anticipate motion to dismiss charges The Hal...

/NASA has named four astronauts as the first people who will fly around the moon in over 50 years, leading a pivotal spaceflight before humans return to the lunar surface. See Also: 'Extreme abuse of power': Ocasio-Cortez slams abortion pill ruling U.S. astronauts Christina Hammock Koch, Victor Glover, and G. Reid Wiseman will ride in the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission, expected to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as early as November 2024. Joining them will be astronaut Jeremy Hansen from the Canadian Space Agency. See Also: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg makes the most incredible statement of the day   The 32-story mega moon rocket — the most powerful in the world — will shoot them into the sky with 8.8 million pounds of thrust, a force equal to that of 160,000 Corvette engines. Not since the final Apollo flight in 1972 have astronauts made this journey. See Also: Former President Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks at Mar-a-Lago   Though women have ...

Malaysia's Court of Appeal has reached a unanimous decision to acquit Sam Ke Ting in the infamous and drawn-out "Basikal Lajak" court case that began in 2017. See Also: 'Extreme abuse of power': Ocasio-Cortez slams abortion pill ruling On April 13, 2022, local clerk Sam was found guilty of causing the death of eight young cyclists along a stretch of a dimly-lit road in Johor Bahru at 3.20 a.m. on February 18, 2017, and was handed a six-year prison term alongside an RM6,000 (US$1,358) fine. See Also: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg makes the most incredible statement of the day After an investigation by the police, it was found that Sam had not been speeding and was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Also, the eight deaths had arisen after a large group of youths had been riding modified bicycles along the poorly-lit and winding road that Sam had been using when she collided into them. See Also: Former President Donald J. Trump Delivers Remarks...

A near-century old abortion ban that fueled one of the largest ballot drives in Michigan history was repealed Wednesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, just months after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state's constitution. See Also: Jen Psaki and Gov. Whitmer talk gun safety, abortion rights and presidential politics "Today, we're going to take action to make sure that our statutes and our laws reflect our values and our constitution," Whitmer said at a bill signing outside of Detroit. See Also: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has escalated his probe into District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of former President Trump by issuing a subpoena to one of his former prosecutors. The 1931 abortion ban made it a four-year felony to assist in an abortion. Roe v. Wade had made the law null and void until the landmark decision was overturned in June by the U.S. Supreme Court. See Also: Stormy Daniels says Trump does not deserve incarceration C...

As Donald Trump was in New York for a date with legal jeopardy, a judge in Los Angeles quietly granted him a substantial legal victory. See Also: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg makes the most incredible statement of the day The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the former president on Tuesday, ordering adult film star Stormy Daniels to pay $121,972 in legal fees for a failed defamation suit. See Also: Stormy Daniels says Trump does not deserve incarceration The ruling is not legally connected with the Manhattan district attorney's investigation that led Trump to be charged with 34 felony counts on Tuesday. But it does stem from the same event: Daniels claims she had an affair with Trump in 2006, then was paid by Trump's legal team to avoid going public with the story ahead of the 2016 presidential election. See Also:   Former President Donald Trump's indictment could make turnout in Wisconsin's Supreme Court election 'unstable' T...