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November 12, 2016 - November 12, 2016, The Afro-American A1 PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY EDITION

Volume 126 No. 1

AUGUST 5, 2017 - AUGUST 11, 2017

Inside Commentary

A Proven Solution to End Violence in Baltimore

Ready to Work

By Douglas Lent

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Prince George’s • Alsobrooks Steps Up to Help County Fulfill Its Promise

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Applicants lined up by the hundreds in ten sites across America, including Baltimore, Md. and Kent, Wash. (pictured) to apply for a job at amazon.com. Amazon plans to make thousands of job offers on the spot at nearly a dozen U.S. warehouses during the recruiting event.

Blacks Condemn Trump’s Endorsement of Police Brutality

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By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com President Trump’s recent remarks telling law enforcement officers to brutalize criminal suspects have received condemnation from many African-American leaders. On July 28, Trump was speaking to a group of law enforcement officials in Long Island, N.Y. about the effort to fight the Latino-dominated MS13 gang when he made the following comments: “When you guys put

somebody in the car and you’re protecting their head, you know, the way you put your hand over?” the president said. “Don’t hit their head, and they just killed somebody – don’t hit their head . . . I said,

The Congressional Black Caucus, with U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) as its chairman, sent out a tweet on July 29 that said, “your racially coded call for police violence is shameful; we need a Better Deal on justice, not a worse one.” Charles P. Wilson, the national chairman of the – Ronald Hampton National Association of Black Law Enforcement you can take the hand away, okay?” Officers, called the president’s remarks The president prefaced the above irresponsible. “Comments such as those statement by saying “please don’t be too expressed by President Trump are not nice.” Many Black leaders weren’t at all only irresponsible, unethical, happy with what the president said. Continued on A3

“He doesn’t know law enforcement.

Trump Reportedly Eyes Changes to Affirmative Action The Trump administration is signaling that it will begin investigating universities over whether their admissions policies illegally discriminate against applicants, according to a published report.

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Civil rights organizations said they will be closely monitoring the United States Department of Justice (DOJ)

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Feb. 17, 1945 NEW YORK—Graduates in dentistry of Columbia University observed Alumni Day here Monday were unanimous in denouncing quotas based upon race.

Tennis star Serena Williams was one of many women to post an image of themselves wearing shirts that said Phenomenal Woman on Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.

Lead Attorney in Maryland’s HBCU Equity Lawsuit, Shot While Vacationing By Deborah Bailey Special to the AFRO Michael D. Jones, a litigation partner in the Washington D.C. office of the international law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, was shot in a burglary attempt while on vacation in Turks and Caicos Islands this week, according to Continued on A3

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In 1945, affirmative action, then known as racial quotas, was just as touchy a topic as it is today. The following report documents the outrage that graduates from Columbia University’s Dental School expressed after affirmative action was proposed for their school.

Racial Quotas Denounced by Columbia Dental Grads

By James Wright Special to the AFRO jwright@afro.com

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in response to a report that the Trump administration may begin suing colleges and universities over their affirmative action policies. The New York Times

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Black Women Unite for Equal Pay Black female leaders from throughout the country convened to discuss the state of their gender and race on a day that has been marked with a specialized focus. July 31 is known as “Black Women’s Equal Pay Day” throughout the U.S. and its purpose is to highlight the pay gap between Black women and Whites of Continued on A3

By J. K. Schmid Special to the AFRO

• More Possible BPD Misconduct and Little Pushback From City Hall

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Should the Ravens Sign Kaepernick?

By unanimous vote, the alumni requested the American Dental Association to “purge its educational council” of everyone supporting the report of Dr. Harlan H. Horner, sent to Columbia last spring. That report proposed selection of students by racial strain or geographic

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