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Month: February 2022

Jewish and Japanese American groups among growing multiracial effort calling for reparations for Black Americans

Maya Brown, CNN As a third-generation Japanese American, Kathy Nishimoto Masaoka remembers the fight for reparations during the Japanese redress movement in the 1970’s. Black leaders in the civil rights movement were among the effort’s biggest supporters, she says. Masaoka said winning reparations gave the Japanese American community strength, a chance to stand up and

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As more HBCUs get bomb threats, Virginia governor says he will seek emergency funding to assist with campus security

By Christina Maxouris and Raja Razek, CNN Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Friday he is planning to ask lawmakers for emergency funding for campus security at historically Black colleges and universities following an alarming pattern of bomb threats at HBCUs across the state — and the country. Among them, Norfolk State University, which received a

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