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In the summer of 2020, as the Black Lives Matter movement swept America, Ralph Lauren — itself the quintessential American brand — announced far-reaching plans to act in the name of racial equity, from mentorship programs to financial donations.

 

Specifically, the Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation pledged $2 million to a dozen historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in December 2021, including Morehouse College and Spelman College.

 
Polo Ralph Lauren is deepening its relati
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Years before Jackie Slater was a Hall of Fame offensive lineman, he was playing for Wingfield High School in Jackson, Mississippi, and hoping to attract the attention of college scouts.

This was in the early 1970s — about the time Southeastern Conference football teams were just beginning to recruit Black players — so this massive teenager was mostly ignored by the big schools. But Jackson State welcomed him.

“It was where I was wanted,” Slater recalled. “And it’s where I could excel.”

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hcsp.jpgA Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus asked to go through the ordeal because it was seen as an honor, a criminal defendant in the case said in a deposition released Wednesday. 
 


 
Twenty-six-year-old Robert Champion (pictured right) had asked all season to go through the hazing ritual, defendant Jonathan Boyce said.
"It's a respect thing, you know," Boyce told detectives. "Well, he was wanting to do it all ... all season."
Champions' parents have said their son wa
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