LOS ANGELES – “I love you, dad.” The words still bring tears to Elliott David’s eyes. The 64-year-old from Watts hears them over the phone every day from his 18-year-old twins Alexander and Matthew. The boys headed off to separate colleges recently. “My babies have become men,” said Elliott, who credits College Bound, a nonprofit…
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A newly launched social media movement is encouraging black people throughout the nation to share their personal stories of what it means to be African American today. The new program – Wells Fargo Presents: The Untold Stories Collection (#MyUntold) – leverages the reach, power and influence of social media to provide an…
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LOS ANGELES – The three leading civil rights groups in America conspired with cable giants Comcast and Time-Warner to stay quiet about a lack of diversity at the two companies in return for millions of dollars in donations, according to a $20 billion lawsuit filed recently in federal court. The NAACP, the National Urban League…
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