Book Review Uncategorized Youth In Action

16-YRS-Old Black Author Releases Children’s Book Teaching Young People To Believe in Themselves

Nationwide — Alicen M. Felder, a 16-year-old author from Detroit, has released her latest book Don’t Count Me Out, to teach young people to always believe in themselves regardless of what others may say. She says that it is perfect for when others’ opinions of you often overrule your beliefs about yourself. Don’t Count Me Read More…

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Black Twin Sisters Acquire Plantation Where Their Ancestors Were Enslaved

Nationwide — Twin sisters Jo and Joy Banner have made a significant move to reclaim their family’s heritage and protect the environment by acquiring the historic Woodland Plantation in LaPlace, Louisiana. This plantation holds deep ties to their ancestors, who were once enslaved there and took part in the 1811 Slave Revolt, a pivotal moment Read More…

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Atlanta Police Fired Black Woman After Daughter Criticized Cops

Written by NewsOne Staff NewsOne Featured Video Source: Raymond Boyd / Getty Rhonda Frost, the former Deputy Director of Public Affairs with the Atlanta Police Department, is suing Mayor Andre Dickens and Chief of Police Darin Schierbaum for wrongful termination. Inside her suit filed on March 18, Frost, who served as deputy director from 2019 Read More…

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Outrage High School Student Is Suspended Just For Using The Term ‘illegal alien’

A 16-year-old North Carolina high school student says he was suspended just for saying “illegal alien” while discussing word meaning in English class — possibly ruining his chances of landing a college sports scholarship. Christian McGhee, a student at Central Davidson High School in Lexington, received a three-day suspension last week after he used the Read More…

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A Buddhist Monk And A Neuroscientist In Conversation

An excerpt from “Beyond the Self: Conversations between Buddhism and Neuroscience.” By: Matthieu Ricard & Wolf Singer Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of Read More…