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The Battle-Fitzgerald entrance and atrium at Lawrenceville School in New Jersey is being renamed after the school's first two Black students.
Lyals Battle and Darrell Fitzgerald were the last of the major independent boarding schools to integrate students of color.
Many boarding schools pushed back against integration, but Lawrenceville realized times were changing and it needed to move towards integration.
A UCLA Civil Rights Project in 2018 showed private schools across the country still lagging in diversity.
Today , 55% of Lawrenceville School's student body of about 800 is non-White .
The school boasts graduates such as former Connecticut governor Lowell Weicker and current Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group Joseph Tsai .
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Hispanic -serving institutions, or HSIs, are not-for-profit schools with a full-time equivalent undergraduate student enrollment that is at least a quarter Hispanic .
President Joe Biden's recent executive order establishing an initiative to increase funding to HSIs.
The more than 500 HSIs in the U.S. and Puerto Rico serve more than 4.7 million students every year, federal data shows.
A student says resources are lacking for Hispanic students who aren't native English speakers.
"The support is there, they just don’t tell us," Melissa Camacho said.
"There are a lot of students like me who want to continue their education, but we do not have the information," she said.
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Keir Starmer's former pollster Deborah Mattinson to meet Kamala Harris's campaign team.
She will share details of how Labour pulled off stunning election win by targeting key groups of squeezed working-class voters who wanted change’ The visit comes ahead of a separate trip by Starmer to Washington on Friday to meet US president Joe Biden .
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Republican Matt Salisbury quits Alaska 's U.S. House race, allowing Democrat Eric Hafner to advance.
Salisbury finished fourth in Alaska ’s primary last month , and Nick Begich , who finished second , wanted to get to know his fellow Republican .
The hourslong talk over food helped convince Salisbury to quit the race.
U.S. Constitution requires a House candidate to be at least 25 years old , a citizen for at least seven years , and to be an inhabitant of the state “when elected” Hafner is expected to be in prison for 12 years more, making it all but impossible for him to come to Alaska , if he were to somehow be elected.
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Spc. Byron Fouty and Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez were captured May 12, 2007 , during an assault of a military observation post in the village of al-Taqa , near Yusufiyah , south of Baghdad .
They were beheaded after their capture with a third soldier.
The Syrian government did not appear in court or otherwise respond to the complaint.
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IRST technology detects heat signatures from aircraft engines.
It operates passively, meaning it doesn't emit signals that can reveal user's location.
The U.S. initially developed IRST sensors in the 1950s , integrating them into jets like the F-101 and F-106 .
Russia continued to enhance and deploy IRST in its fighter jets such as the MiG-29 and Su-27.
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Military.com reviewed several hours of recordings of meetings of the Campbell County Militia published on social media sites.
Campbell County's board of supervisors officially recognized Abbott 's militia in a six to one vote to serve "as a barrier against a tyrannical government" In June , Army Secretary Christine Wormuth issued a new policy clarifying that soldiers are forbidden from participating in radical causes, including anti-government activity.
At the heart of the Campbell County Militia is a sustained public relations campaign.
Its social media accounts mostly post photos of the group doing community service.
Extremist groups often partake in charity causes or public service that is divorced from their prime objective.
The militia's social media presence features a steady diet of anti-immigrant rhetoric and suggestions of impending violence.
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Algerians head to the polls Saturday to cast votes for president and determine who will govern their gas-rich North African nation.
Military-backed President Abdelmadjid Tebboune is expected to breeze to a second term in Saturday 's election.
The 78-year-old was elected in December 2019 after nearly a year of weekly demonstrations demanding the resignation of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika .
“We’ve seen that in their choice not to overtly criticize president paired with a very strong message to Algerians to come out and vote.” Besides Aouchiche and Cherif , others boycotted the contest, denouncing it as a rubber stamp exercise that could only entrench the power of Tebboune and the elites that rule the country..
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Charles McMillan spent nearly 23 years in various positions at Livermore in California and about 18 years at Los Alamos .
He died at a hospital after a two -vehicle crash early Friday on a stretch of road known as Main Hill , not far from the lab, police say.
He was an experimental physicist who retired in 2017 .
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The late, former congresswoman Shirley Chisholm celebrated her 100th birthday on November 30 .
"She was an ordinary person like you and me doing extraordinary things," Ingrid Griffith said.
The show is a labor of love that's very close to Griffith , as she shares familiar roots with Chisolm in Guyana .