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Tennessee Student is Centennial Scholar Recipient of Ossie Davis Scholarship

Earlier this month, after a rigorous selection process, the family of the late actors and activists, together with the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), announced that Lane College senior, Jade Allen, is the recipient of the Ossie Davis Legacy Scholarship. “We are always motivated by mom and dad’s love of education and what a struggle it was for each of them to get higher education and the sacrifices that their parents made,” Davis Day told NNPA Newswire.

William Jackson Harper on NBC’s, ‘The Good Place,’ is Sad to See a Paycheck Go, But …

On a recent afternoon, under Rockefeller Plaza’s food court, a small group of journalists gathered to talk shop with William Jackson Harper, the handsome man who carved a place in television history playing the character, Chidi, in NBC’s hit comedy, “The Good Place,” created by Mike Schur. The table is filled with plates of avocado toast and soft, perfectly fried calamari. On an empty plate, a menu for lunch with an attentive waiter poised, waiting to take our orders. Unless you’ve completely gone off the grid, you must know about “The Good Place,” which has racked up several Emmy and