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In McCandless, council seats are open in Wards 2, 4 and 6, but the Ward 2 seat is the only race that’s contested. In Ward 2, two newcomer candidates for council, Marcia Pearson and Jack Casey, will square off for the open seat. In Ward 4, newcomer Jason Singer is

Robert Hillis, MD passed away 2021-10-01 in Lawton, Oklahoma. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Clara Jackson McLaughlin, owner and publisher of the Florida Star newspaper, died Sunday in hospice care at her daughter's house in Houston. She was 81.

Madam President Kamala Harris incorporated personal lessons within her build to leadership, which included the strength of sisterhood. As part of the Alpha Kappa Alpha, Inc. body of sisters, Harris embraced the level of kinship taught within her sorority home; it would later serve as a pillar in leading the country.  

An Indian American 18-year-old Ph.D. student, Tanishq Abraham from UC Davis, California, has been named among the Top 50 finalists for a $100,000 Global Student Prize. The international prize is

Hurricane Katrina hit two months after Alana Lipscomb graduated high school, right as she was getting ready to start college in Mississippi. It changed her perspective on everything.

University of Oklahoma senior Sydney Smith is working to make groups more welcoming, saying "I think we can do better."

Statesides conversation with Semaj Brown. The American Academy of Poets has chosen Flint’s Poet Laureate, Semaj Brown, as one of twenty-two 2021 Poet Laureate Fellows. Brown will receive $50,000 for her literary work.  Brown intends to put the award toward the Poetry Pod Project, or P3. The virtual programming series, a project of her own design, aims to support literacy in Flint.  “We know a healthy community is a literate community , and what better way to support literacy than through ...

Johnson kicked off the conversation by discussing the “Grow with Google” initiative. “Grow with Google” is our economic opportunity initiative. Over six million Americans have trained in digital skills since 2017 through a network of more than eight thousand amazing partner organizations including local libraries, schools, sororities and nonprofits. In my organization in particular we work to leverage to grow Google workshops through our partnership with urban league affiliates to train...

Share Four Yale professors whose teaching and mentorship have inspired generations of students were recently honored with William C. Clyde DeVane Medals from the university’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. The DeVane Medals, Yale’s oldest teaching award, are typically given each year in recognition of outstanding scholarship and undergraduate teaching to an active faculty member who is elected by undergraduate members of the society, and to a retired faculty member, who is chosen by the grad...