March 2024 – THE BALDWIN

Lincoln University alumni object to president’s return following administrator’s suicide

Originally published by The 19th Lincoln University’s national alumni association is objecting to the school’s decision to keep John Moseley as president after a Black woman administrator who accused him of bullying took her own life earlier this year. The alumni association said in a letter that it was issuing a statement of “no-confidence” in […]

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Black LGBTQ+ youth need spaces that embrace them fully, researchers say

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Originally published by The 19th Twenty-one percent of Black trans, nonbinary and questioning youth have made a suicide attempt in the last year, nearly half said they felt unsafe at school, and 64 percent said they had encountered transphobia, according to two recent reports that advocates say should serve as a call to action for

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How the imagery of White women victims is being used to stoke anti-immigrant fear

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Originally published by The 19th Republicans who are pushing for more restrictive immigration policy ahead of a pivotal election year continue to lean on an old strategy in their appeal to voters: broadly framing immigrant men as dangerous next to imagery of young White women victims. In 2015 it was Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old woman

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WATCH: Sean ‘Diddy’ Comb’s Home Raided

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Per NBC News: Three women and a man have been interviewed by federal officials in Manhattan in relation to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault, and the solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms, the source familiar with the investigation said. Interviews with three other subjects are also scheduled. Four law enforcement sources told NBC News

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WATCH: Don Lemon’s Interview with Elon Musk

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The former CNN anchor is back with his new show and his first guest is billionaire Elon Musk. There’s been controversy around this interview. It was supposed to live on X in addition to several other platforms. Allegedly Musk was unhappy with the line of questioning and Musk pulled the interview from the platform. Lemon

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CVS and Walgreens will start selling abortion pills this month

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Shefali Luthra | Originally published by The 19th CVS and Walgreens will start dispensing mifepristone, one of the medications used to induce an abortion, in stores this month. The news was first reported by The New York Times. It comes more than a year after both retail pharmacy chains, the nation’s two largest, said they

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Barbara Lee takes another stand

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Amanda Becker | Originally published by The 19th OAKLAND & SAN FRANCISCO — When Barbara Lee was a student at the all-women Mills College in the early 1970s working toward a psychology degree, a class assignment presented her with a dilemma. The course required students to get involved in a 1972 presidential primary campaign. Lee

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LISTEN: Interview with Luce Cannon and Charisse Mills of UrbanFlixTV’s “Baddie and the Beast”

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Charisse Mills says that rapper/producer Luce Cannon made her feel safe from the first day he approached her mother and asked to buy her a drink. Two years later, he has not wavered. In hip-hop years, that’s an eternity. Cannon, a creative whose been linked to some of the biggest names in the culture, says

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