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  6 interesting facts about Marvel’s Jonathan Majors, who is the son of a pastor

  Mildred Europa Taylor

  Actor Jonathan Majors is in the news after his appearance at a New York City courthouse on Tuesday for a hearing over assault and harassment charges brought against him by the Manhattan District Attorney’s...

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  Correctional officer loses job after becoming caretaker of inmate’s newborn child

  Mildred Europa Taylor

  A former Mississippi correctional officer said she was fired from her job after she became the caretaker of an inmate’s newborn child, WLBT reported. Roberta Bell had worked at the Louisiana Transitional...

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  How history forgot Patricia Roberts Harris, the first Black woman to sit on a Fortune 500 corporate board

  Mildred Europa Taylor

  She was a woman of many firsts. A law school dean and a civil rights leader, Patricia Roberts Harris was the first Black woman to become a U.S. cabinet secretary in 1977 and the first to be named U.S....

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  25-year-old Nomhle Ngwenya is the youngest and first Black woman PhD graduate at Wits University’s science faculty

  Mildred Europa Taylor

  African girls and women in STEM face various challenges, including limited access to resources, gender bias, and lack of representation. Still, some are beating the odds to become great in the field, contributing...

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  How this entrepreneurial couple raised over $5 million after declining $400K on Shark Tank

  Mildred Europa Taylor

  Husband-and-wife duo Tim and Kim Lewis launched natural hair care line CurlMix in 2015 as a DIY box for curly hair. “We began that way because I was spending a lot of time on YouTube,” Kim...

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  Young father killed in mass shooting during Juneteenth celebration

  Mildred Europa Taylor

  Police have launched an investigation into a mass shooting that killed one person and injured 22 others in southwest suburban Willowbrook on Sunday morning. The shooting happened during a Juneteenth celebration...

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