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Twitter Goes In On Woman Who Lost Anti-Affirmative Action Case
Abigail Fisher claimed she was not admitted to the Uni- versity of Texas Austin because her slot was taken by a minor- ity student.
Thursday (June 23) the Supreme Court of The United States ruled on the Fisher v. University of Texas case and found in favor of the university upholding their Affirmative Ac- tion policies. The plaintiff, Abi- gail Fisher, filed the suit against the university after she was denied admittance in 2008. Fisher believed that she was not admitted because of “vague” policies that admitted students based on race.
Fisher, now 26, who hails from a wealthy suburb of Hous- ton called Sugar Land, claimed she was deprived of her rightful admission at UT Austin be- cause, in her view, some person of color who didn’t deserve it stole it from her.
Throughout her now seven- year campaign to make the school pay for not letting her in, Fisher has never been able to produce any evidence that the school tossed her application to make room for a less qualified minority applicant. That’s be- cause, as UT Austin has main- tained throughout this ordeal, Fisher was never getting in to their school. Fisher’s GPA and SAT scores weren’t high enough, and she didn’t have enough external accomplish- ments to convince the school to give her a shot otherwise.
After her loss, Twitter handed her another L when the #Beck- yWithTheBadGrades hashtag took off.
Homeless Teen Graduates
Act Of Kindness Has Led To
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One small show of kindness helps 16-year-old Chauncy Jones Black go viral.
It started earlier in the month, when the Memphis teen offered to carry a stranger’s groceries in ex- change for food. Though Black wants to own his own business one day, for now he tries to help his mom out by doing odds jobs.
Matt White detailed his in- spirational encounter with the teen in a Facebook.
“I just met the most inspir- ing person ever,” White wrote. “His name is Chauncy. He’s a 16-year-old from Memphis. He had taken the bus at 9:00 at night to get to the “rich people’s Kroger” on Highland as he called it. He approached me while I was shopping for produce asking if he could help me carry my gro- cery bags to my car in ex- change for buying him a pack of glazed donuts. This kid looked like he had been turned down 100 times. He looked ashamed, hungry and broken.”
White ended up buying the boy donuts, plus groceries. “I asked him if he was by himself and he said that he had come
Chauncy Jones Black, 16, asked to do odd jobs in grocery store when a good Samaritan came to his rescue.
all the way out here with the hopes of someone buying him something to eat because he and his mother had nothing at home,” White explained. “He had no phone, a bus pass, and he was depending on the graces of a stranger to feed him within the hour before the bus left. So, needless to say, he and I went on a shopping spree.”
White has since started a GoFundMe account for his “new hero,” and it’s already raised more than $210,000.
At 16 years old, Destyni Tyree has graduated early and earned a full ride to Potomac State College of West Virginia University.
Not only did she graduate early, but she graduated with a 4.0 GPA after winning prom queen, being a cheerleader, and participating in various school activities.
The Washington, D.C. teen did all of this while residing in a homeless shelter with her fam- ily, and has said her motivation for graduating early was the de- sire to not live in a shelter when she gets older. Her mother lost her job a few years back and it caused the teen to have to skip around schools until she landed in an alternative school program.
“We not only gave her regu- lar classes, she had online classes and she did Saturday
Destyni Tyree graduated with a 4.0 GPA.
school to make sure that she graduated this year,” principal Eugenia Young told NBC Washington.
Tyree credits her mother and her principal with keeping her motivated.
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BALTIMORE, MD. ---In what police are calling a “senseless” crime, a suspect al- legedly shot his own father at a memorial service for a de- ceased brother.
According to WJX, family and friends had come together to mourn the death of Anto- nio Addison when the shoot- ing occurred. The murder victim’s brother allegedly pulled out a gun and shot his own father while the church was full of mourners.
Police say an argument led to the shooting.
“They got into some sort of an argument at this repast over what was said or how it was said at the funeral, and the sus-
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SAMARIA RICE
The family of Tamir Rice
has decided against a public vigil on what would have been his 14th birthday.
The Cleveland native died at the hands of a police officer two years ago after his toy gun was mistaken for a real weapon. Since then, his family has fought the courts when it comes to an official investigation into the 12-year-old’s death by the Department of Justice.
Tamir Rice would have been 14-years-old on Saturday.
Unlike last year’s public serv- ice celebrating Rice’s young life, the family decided to mourn in private.
“I, Samaria Rice, want the people to remember Tamir’s birthday is Saturday and he will be turning 14 years old. I’m not going to have an event this year. This has been an emotional journey for my family and me,” his mother explained in a state- ment via Facebook.
Tamir Rice’s Mom Continues To Fight For Justice
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