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Flint, Michigan Residents Will Stop Receiving Free Bottled Water

April 20, 2018

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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced beginning last Friday residents of Flint will no longer have access to free government-funded water bottles, citing claims that faucet water tests well below lead levels that would require ...

Pennsylvania district teachers armed with baseball bats for protection

April 20, 2018

Police Brutality, will it still have a place in America’s future?

Darius Foster, Photo Editor

April 20, 2018

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Before Sacramento police officers on March 18, 2018 killed Stephon Clark in his backyard with 20 rounds of bullets they yelled “gun, gun, gun”. Clark only had an iPhone on him. According to The Washington Post in 2018 alon...

Starbucks Arrests Two African-American Men

Natalie Valiente, Staff Writer

April 20, 2018

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Public outrage over the arrest of two African-American men at a downtown Starbucks in Philadelphia sparked a corporate crisis that led the company to take the step of announcing it would close many of their stores in May to train...

Honoring African-American Figures: Langston Hughes

April 20, 2018

D.C. Lawmaker Wants To Lower Voting Age

Londyn Mason, Opinion Editor

April 19, 2018

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Council Member Charles Allen is trying to pass legislation to lower the voting age to 16 in D.C. after watching teenagers who campaigned for gun control and protested in March. WTOP reported that Allen said “at the age of...

Howard Financial Aid Scandal

Natalie Valiente and Natalie Valiente

April 19, 2018

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Howard University students protested after the announcement that six former employees misappropriated $369,000 in financial aid from 2011 to 2016. According to The Washington Post, “investigators discovered that some employees w...

The Safety of Personal information in Social Media

April 18, 2018

Teachers Demand a Higher Salary

April 17, 2018

“Black Panther” Tops “Titanic” On All Time Highest Grossing Films

Ethan Philpott, Arts & Entertainment Editor

April 16, 2018

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As of last week, according to CNN, Marvel Studios has now made $665.4 million domestically with Black Panther, which makes it the third-highest grossing film in North American history, only trailing Star Wars: The Force Awaken...

FEMA is Continuing Aid in Puerto Rico

Natalie Valiente, Staff Writer

April 12, 2018

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On Tuesday, January 30, 2018, NPR reported that Puerto Rico, which had been devastated by Hurricane Maria four months prior, would no longer be receiving aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). On January 31, F...

PGCPS Board of Education Restores Spring Break

April 9, 2018