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This photo provided by Monica Graham shows Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey, right, as she poses for a selfie with her friend, Graham, in October 2023 during homecoming at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Candia-Bailey's suicide on Jan. 8, 2024, led to the president of the historically Black college to agree to be placed on paid leave amid reports that he bullied her. Graduates of the school are demanding that he be terminated. Photo credit: Monica Graham via The Associated Press

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Historically Black Missouri college in turmoil after administrator who alleged bullying took her own life

January 24, 2024
By Heather Hollingsworth & Summer Ballentine
The Associated Press

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Dexter King, son of the the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., speaks at a news conference in Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 28, 1994. The King Center in Atlanta said the 62-year-old son of the civil rights leader died Monday, Jan. 22, 2024, at his California home after battling prostate cancer. Photo credit: Leita Cowart, The Associated Press

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Dexter Scott King, son of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., dies of prostate cancer at age 62

January 22, 2024
By Melanie Eversley
NABJ Black News & Views

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Spelman College, Atlanta. Photo credit: Spelman College

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HBCU Spelman College receives $100 million donation, highest in college’s history

January 19, 2024
By Ahjané Forbes
USA Today

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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, left, and Baltimore Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Worley walk to a news conference in the Shipley Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, May 11, 2023. The Baltimore Police Department has reached compliance with two sections of its court-ordered reform agreement — including a piece that governs transportation of people in custody, which landed the agency under federal oversight in the first place following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray. Photo credit: Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via The Associated Press

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Baltimore police make progress in court-ordered reform

January 18, 2024
By The Associated Press
NABJ Black News & Views

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Josephine Wright poses in her yard facing a barren plot under development in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, June 2023. Wright, who drew national attention from the likes of Tyler Perry and Snoop Dogg as she fought off developers in her final years, died Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024, at her Hilton Head home surrounded by loved ones, according to a publicist for her family. She was 94. Photo credit: James Pollard, The Associated Press

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Josephine Wright, who resisted development of family’s Gullah land on Hilton Head Island, dies at 94

January 18, 2024
By James Pollard
The Associated Press/Report for America

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Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during a news conference at the Martin Luther King Jr Center for Nonviolent Social Change on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, in Atlanta. Photo credit: John Bazemore, The Associated Press

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WATCH: Rev. Bernice King, daughter of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., speaks out on Gaza as country reflects on her father

January 15, 2024
By The Associated Press
NABJ Black News & Views

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