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Veteran Sues U.S. Government, Alleges Racial Discrimination Against Black Vets

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There is a statistically significant difference in determinations for VA disability benefits 2001-2020, according to the legal clinic. The VA did not track decisions on disability claims before 2001, according to court documents. “The The VA denied an average of 29.5% for white applicants, the suit claims.

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Alabama’s Coach Saban Retires with Historic Seven National Titles

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Saban led LSU to SEC championships in 2001 and 2003, when he won his first national title. Saban is credited with restoring the Crimson Tide football program once ruled by Paul “Bear” Bryant to the top of NCAA football after taking over in 2007. 1 Georgia in the 2023 SEC Championship game.

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Legends Henry and Shirley Frye Honored with Renaming of A&T Building

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Supreme Court, in 1983, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, in 1999, before retiring in 2001. In 1959, he became the first African American student to complete study and graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law and, in 1963, the first African American assistant U.S. district attorney.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

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College seniors were born in the fall of 2001. 9/11] is just this mystical thing I’ve always heard about,” said Evangelica Alcantara, a first-year student at Riverside City College who was born in 2001. “I For them, 9/11 is a historical event, little different from Pearl Harbor. I don’t have very much connection to it.”

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Anti-Apartheid Advocate and Human Rights Activist Randall Robinson Dies at 81

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Kitts in the Caribbean, with his wife, Hazel Ross-Robinson, in 2001. "I “We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths." Robinson moved to St. I never believed my place was necessarily physically in America," Robinson said in 2004. "I

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Educational Equity Key to Progress and Democracy

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In 2001, SLN launched the CollegeBound Initiative (CBI), placing 33 college counselors in schools in New York City, Rochester, and Buffalo. You as educators are critical to breaking that cycle.” SLN helps students find their voices and their confidence, pushing through the systemic barriers they confront, not just in high school, but beyond.

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UCLA Alumni Couple Pledges $10 Million to Ethnic Studies Centers

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The two have made several other gifts to UCLA over the years, leading to a 2001 scholarship fund in their name, as well as an endowed director’s chair for IAC’s Asian American Studies Center. from Yale University and a law degree from Harvard University. He gained prominence as a trial and intellectual property lawyer.