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10 Tips to Help Families of Children with Special Needs Enjoy the Holidays

Episcopal Center for Children, a Treatment and Special Education Center in DC, Offers Advice

The holidays are upon us, and while there’s loads of merry-making and fun to be had – the changes and sensations of the season can add stress to the lives of children with special needs and their families. The Episcopal Center for Children (ECC), a nonprofit organization serving children with special needs ages 5-14 in the greater Washington, DC area, offers the following tips to help.

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GOP, Not Russia, the Greater Threat to Free Elections

We all have heard about WikiLeaks and Russian interference in the 2016 election. The report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller has once more put that on the front pages. Too often lost in the furor, however, is the far more damaging TrikiLeaks -- the tricks and laws used to suppress the vote by partisans, largely Republicans here at home.

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'Equal Pay, Equal Pay, Equal Pay'

As the exhausted and thrilled U.S. women's soccer team celebrated its victory in the finals of the 2019 Women's World Cup, the cheers of the crowd in the Stade of Lyon soon turned into a chant: "Equal Pay, Equal Pay, Equal Pay." Even as they fought their way to the fourth U.S. Women World Cup championship, the U.S. team were waging a battle -- in the court of public opinion and the courts of law -- for equal treatment in wages, working conditions and investment in the women's game. And if there is any justice or common sense in their employer, U.S. Soccer, they will be as victorious in the quest for equal pay as they were in their quest for the World Cup.

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The Burden of College Loan Debt

The reaction -- shock, joy, disbelief, euphoria -- revealed the importance of Robert F. Smith's stunning gift, when he announced, unexpectedly, that he would pay off all the college debts of Morehouse College students graduating this year. His gift literally changed the prospects and the lives of the vast majority of those 396 graduates.

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It included an assortment of US cargo planes, including the C-47 and C-130, as well as four F-15 Eagle fighters.

To celebrate the start of the 2019 Women's World Cup, we asked female footballers around the world to record a day in their lives. In the video at the top of this page, they tell us their story.

NABJ Names Karen Attiah 2019 Journalist of the Year

Washington Post Global Opinions Editor to be Honored at #NABJ19

“Bold, fearless and timely” are words used by fellow journalists to describe the work of Karen Attiah, the 2019 National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Journalist of the Year.

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Toni Morrison's works spoke to a generation of us

As a little black girl who didn't always want to be black, Toni Morrison at once understood me and shamed me.

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Shelley Johnson Inducted into the Destinations International Hall of Fame

Destinations International Chair, William Pate, President/CEO of the Atlanta Convention & Visitors Bureau and Destinations International President & CEO, Don Welsh, recognized the 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees at the association’s annual convention July 23-25, in St. Louis, MO.

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Beyond the Rhetoric: The Evolution of the National Black Chamber of Commerce – Final Part

It was the late 1980’s, and life was great for the Alford/DeBow family. In such a short time Kay and I had developed quite a portfolio: Military Officer experience, Big 10 graduates living in Big 10 Country, Fortune 100 corporate experience, real estate brokerage training and entrepreneurship experience.

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Inside Kamala Harris' Plan to Raise Teacher Salaries

Over the weekend in Houston, Sen. Kamala Harris unveiled her first major policy proposal as a presidential candidate, pledging to boost teacher pay.

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Houston Parks Board's Fifth Annual Bayou Greenway Day Attracts Thousands of People to Mason Park

Mayor Sylvester Turner and city VIPs celebrated Bayou Greenways 2020

Houston Parks Board’s fifth annual Bayou Greenway Day was its most successful to date, garnering its highest community member attendance and its broadest participation of community and city event partners. Presented by Noble Energy, approximately 6,000 adults, teens, and children took part in the free festival at Mason Park along Brays Bayou Greenway.

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'The Bachelor,' Golden Globes and the blurring of reality from 'reality'

"The Bachelor" returns on Monday, meaning countless tweets and recaps will be devoted to its dramatically structured quest for love.

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Beyond the Rhetoric: We did not Die, We Multiplied

It is without question. Blacks, as a race of people, are the most resilient human beings walking on God’s earth. Starting in the 1500’s, Europeans began the greatest holocaust known to history. The enslavement of Africans would last for over 350 years. A good portion of the captives died within weeks during the passage across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Inside Kamala Harris' plan to raise teacher salaries

Over the weekend in Houston, Sen. Kamala Harris unveiled her first major policy proposal as a presidential candidate, pledging to boost teacher pay.

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Beyond the Rhetoric: Kamala Harris Announces Her 2020 Campaign

Kamala Harris is wasting no time with her political career. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2016 and has already set her immediate target – the presidency of the United States. On January 26, she formally announced her campaign. The setting was in Oakland, California where she was born in 1964.

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What makes a celebrity endorsement a touchdown

On Sunday, Sarah Michelle Gellar will try to sell you Olay face cream. Adam Scott and 2 Chainz will pitch you Expensify to do your work expenses. And Christina Applegate is going to threaten some too-chatty anthropomorphic M&Ms from the front seat of her mom van in hopes that somehow makes you want to eat a chocolate bar filled with the colorful candies.

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Time to Strike a Blow Against Hate

Now Americans get to decide. Our democracy is corrupted by big money, scarred by efforts to suppress the vote or to gerrymander districts and stained by scurrilous campaigning, led in this instance from the president himself.

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Trump's Flailing Indicates a Man In Serious Trouble

Since the striking victories of Democrats up and down the ballot in 2018, President Trump has been flailing more and more wildly.

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What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Too Much Seafood

Eating seafood that has been tainted with mercury is one of the most common ways humans accumulate mercury in their bodies. The mercury in seafood is a highly poisonous form of the metal called methylmercury, which forms when mercury dissolves into the water.

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Simple Seafood Solutions for Lent

With people across the country observing Lent, a religious tradition observed during the 40 days before Easter, it’s time to rethink the standard family meal menu.