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Romona Smith, 20, Nashville, Tennessee Undergraduate subsidizing her college costs with shifts at Kroger and McDonald’s. “Me working wasn’t enough,” said Smith, who described the latter experience as strengthening her resolve. Living situation: Spending the summer rent-free with her college roommate and family in their five-bedroom home in Corona. Romona Smith, 20, NashvilleSmith is pursuing a double major in social work and psychology, along with a certification as a registered behavior technician to work with people with ADHD or autism. With her out-of-pocket tuition set to hit nearly $5,000 this fall, Smith wants to avoid another financial Hail Mary.

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☆ Opinion | Martin Luther King Wasn’t a Lone Messiah
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Joy-Ann Reid | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stands apart from the other civil rights leaders of the 20th century. director J. Edgar Hoover’s paranoia that a Black messiah would emerge to provoke this nation’s oppressed Black masses to revolution. But King was far from a lone messiah. Among those who took inspiration from King was Medgar Evers; they and Malcolm X formed what James Baldwin called the great trio of the civil rights movement. Evers, the then-32-year-old Mississippi field secretary for the N.A.A.C.P., first wrote to King in 1956, hoping to bring him to his home state.

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CNN —The Biden administration is debating whether to designate Travis King, the US Army soldier who crossed into North Korea last month, as a prisoner of war, defense officials told CNN. But VanLandingham said it’s unclear that North Korea would even acknowledge POW status or afford King the protections it bestows. A former senior Air Force lawyer said it’s unlikely King would receive POW status because there was no active fighting when he entered North Korea. In addition, King wasn’t forced into North Korea or captured by their forces, instead entering the country of his own free will. “He chose to go to North Korea,” the lawyer said, pointing out that King’s entry into North Korea was not related to the conflict in any way.

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