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James Cadogan Named Executive Director of National Basketball Social Justice Coalition
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James Cadogan Named Executive Director of National Basketball Social Justice Coalition

Sentinel News ServiceApril 29, 2021

The National Basketball Social Justice Coalition today announced that James Cadogan has been appointed as its first Executive Director. Cadogan will assume the new position on May 10, 2021 and drive the strategic vision and day-to-day operations of the Coalition. Announced in November 2020, the Coalition will lead the NBA family’s collaborative efforts to address racial inequality and advance social justice by raising awareness, educating and advocating for meaningful policy change in several areas, including voting access and criminal justice system reform at the national, state and local level.

Snoop Dogg V. Gayle King and Ambassador Susan Rice
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Snoop Dogg V. Gayle King and Ambassador Susan Rice

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior CorrespondentFebruary 21, 2020

Last week, just days after the tragic death of basketball superstar and entrepreneur Kobe Bryant, CBS This Morning co-host, and Friend of Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King sparked a controversy following her interview with former WNBA star and longtime friend of Bryant, Lisa Leslie.

New Jersey Seminary to Pay $27 Million in Reparations for Ties to Slavery
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New Jersey Seminary to Pay $27 Million in Reparations for Ties to Slavery

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire CorrespondentNovember 7, 2019

“The Seminary’s ties to slavery are a part of our story,” Barnes stated. “It is important to acknowledge that our founders were entangled with slavery and could not envision a fully integrated society. We did not want to shy away from the uncomfortable part of our history and the difficult conversations that revealing the truth would produce.”

Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture
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Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentSeptember 6, 2019

“The long struggle over the development of education in the postbellum South occurred in large part because no dominant class could convince the freed people that its conception of education reflected a natural and proper social order,” Anderson wrote in “The Education of Blacks in the South,” James Anderson is the author of The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935