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Howard Council Calls for Racial Integration
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Howard Council Calls for Racial Integration

Ellicott City, MD (August 13, 2019)– Howard County Councilmembers Christiana Mercer Rigby, Dr. Opel Jones, and Deb Jung will introduce a council resolution in September calling on the Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) to […]

Advocacy Group Says 21 States Shifting School Hours
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Advocacy Group Says 21 States Shifting School Hours

School districts in at least 21 states plan to delay morning bells this year according to the national non-profit Start School Later (SSL). Topping the list are 5 districts in Ohio, 5 in Pennsylvania, and […]

Colleges Not Forthcoming about Sexual Assault
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Colleges Not Forthcoming about Sexual Assault

by Victoria Gomes-Boronat Capital News Service WASHINGTON – Despite the rise of the #MeToo movement, most of the nation’s largest public universities are less than transparent about how they handle sexual assault cases on campus. […]

Vanessa Gonzalez ’19 teaches a math lesson with Lakeland Elementary School students. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.
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From Dream to Drive to Degree: Five UMBC journeys

  by UMBC Earning a degree isn’t just a milestone, it’s a special kind of growth experience full of challenges and doubts, inspiration and opportunity. Depending on their path, some students face particular challenges. They […]

UMBC Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Awards
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UMBC Students and Alumni Receive Fulbright Awards

by UMBC Kelly Wan ’18, global studies and financial economics, and Humanities Scholar is one of fourteen UMBC students and recent alumni to receive Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards — a new university record. During her junior year, […]

Hammond High School Jazz Band (Photo by Sam Seliger)
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Hammond Honors New Choir Director at Concert

by Sam Seliger Guilford Gazette Intern After the Hammond High Chamber Choir finished their set of five songs at the Spring Concert on May 7th, a group of seniors stepped down from the risers. These […]

Back (L-R): Heidi Weiss-Beedie (HC Health Department), Noah Connor, Robert Johnson (My Brothers' Keeper), Zhion Perkins (NAACP YC 2nd VP), Dr. Maxine Kellman-Allen (NAACP YC co-advisor), Isaac Allen (NAACP YC VP)
front (L-R): Nadia Camp, Seana Camp (NAACP YC Secretary), Helen Nuttall (NAACP Youth Council co-advisor) Photo by Sam Seliger
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Teens Shoot “Basketballs Instead of Guns”

by Sam Seliger Guilford Gazette Intern At the NAACP Youth Council second annual Hoopin’ for Teen Health 3-on-3 Co-Ed Charity Basketball Tournament  on Saturday, May 4th, teens and adults alike faced off in basketball games […]