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Details: Written by ANNIE MA Associated Press; Published: 23 May 2023

In predominantly Black schools, students’ mental health is further tested by pressures and discrimination they endure because they are Black, as well as violence and poverty in their communities that have faced years of disinvestment. (AP Illustration)

To her students who need the most support, India Strother is rarely just “Ms. Strother” — she’s a family figure they call “Mom,” a trusted guide as they negotiate their teenage years.

Details: Written by KAT STAFFORD Associated Press; Published: 23 May 2023

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Thousands of Black households that have lost mothers and fathers over the past three years, a distinct calamity within the many tragedies of the pandemic.

Details: Written by MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press; Published: 22 May 2023

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The NAACP, long an advocate for Black Americans, joined the League of United Latin American Citizens, a Latino civil rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay rights advocacy group, in issuing travel advisories for the Sunshine State

Details: Written by STEPHEN GROVES, ZEKE MILLER and, JOSH BOAK Associated Press; Published: 21 May 2023

President Joe Biden will meet Monday with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy about averting an economy-wrecking federal default. The Republican leader is expressing cautious optimism about a possible debt ceiling compromise as Washington races to raise America’s borrowing limit before the funds could be depleted early next month

Details: Written by ZEKE MILLER and JOSH BOAK Associated Press; Published: 21 May 2023

President Joe Biden says Republicans in the U.S. House must move off their “extreme positions” on the now-stalled talks over raising America’s debt limit. Biden plans to call U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy from Air Force One on the way back to Washington after a Group of Seven summit in Japan where world leaders expressed concern about the dire global ramifications if the United States were to be unable to meet its financial obligations

Details: Written by CORA LEWIS and ADRIANA MORGA Associated Press Writers; Published: 21 May 2023

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The Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate yet again in its drive to cool inflation, a move that will directly affect most Americans. Rates on credit cards, mortgages and auto loans all stand to rise even more. The result will be more burdensome loan costs for both consumers and businesses

Details: Written by JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press; Published: 19 May 2023

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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the 2016 publication of an Andy Warhol image of the singer Prince violated a photographer's copyright, a decision a dissenting justice said would stifle the creation of art.

Details: Written by MEG KINNARD Associated Press; Published: 19 May 2023

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The deeply religious 57-year-old former insurance broker has made his grandfather’s work in the cotton fields of the Deep South a bedrock of his political identity. Yet he rejects the notion that racism remains a powerful force in society

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Details: Written by MARK SHERMAN Associated Press; Published: 19 May 2023

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The justices unanimously rejected a lawsuit alleging that the companies allowed their platforms to be used to aid and abet an attack at a Turkish nightclub that killed 39 people in 2017.

Details: Written by by BOTWC Staff; Published: 18 May 2023

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We feel like it was just last year that we cheered Sasha Obama off to prom. Well we guess the pandemic really did a number on us because 2019 was apparently four years ago and now the littlest Obama has graduated!