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Ovetta Wiggins

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Writer/journalist. Former reporter at @washingtonpost Alum: Philadelphia Inquirer, Bergen Record
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The quiet Black immigrant father behind one of America’s most accomplished families

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By Ovetta Wiggins
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Rice University President Reginald DesRoches remembers his father as a voracious reader, one who devoured the New York Times from cover to cover during his morning commute from Queens to midtown Manhattan and studied scriptures at night from a well-worn Bible that sat next to a lamp on his nightstand.
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When justice had a megaphone: The Rev. Jesse Jackson's life in full voice

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By Ovetta Wiggins
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., a civil rights icon, gifted orator, and politician whose presidential campaigns changed the landscape of American politics, died Tuesday, according to NPR. He was 84. Jackson, who was initially diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017, died after a more than 10-year battle with progressive supranuclear palsy, a neurodegenerative condition that affects body movements, walking, and balance. A protege of the Rev.
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Claudette Colvin’s legacy proves Black heroes never needed to be “respectable” to be revolutionary

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By Ovetta Wiggins
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At 15 years old, Claudette Colvin, who’d been studying Black history at school, knew who she was. She knew her rights and the respect she deserved. So when a Montgomery, Ala., bus driver demanded in the spring of 1955 that the teenager move her seat so a White woman could be more comfortable – about nine months before Rosa Parks defied a similar order – Colvin refused to budge. She was subsequently arrested and sentenced to indefinite probation.
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