Black Churches Offer College Scholarships To Students At Michael Brown's Alma Mater

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WELLSTON, Mo. (RNS) They filed into the gym Monday (Jan. 12) for an assembly about graduation and applying for colleges — an intentionally vague description that wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for a senior class.

Instead, the seniors at Normandy High School learned that full-tuition scholarships would be given to 11 of them in honor of Michael Brown, who graduated just days before he was fatally shot by a Ferguson police officer.

Ferguson’s death — and the subsequent grand jury decision not to charge the white officer with his death — set off protests and heightened racial tensions coast to coast, followed by a similar case of a unarmed black man on Staten Island who died in a police chokehold.

“The way we deal with this situation is we breathe life into you,” said George T. French, president of Miles College in Birmingham, Ala., which is offering two of the scholarships. “We believe in you, Normandy High School seniors.”

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1. “The way we deal with this situation is we breathe life into you”

Yes! Thank you Miles College in Birmingham, AL and the others offering full-tuition scholarships in honor of Michael Brown.

Thanks for the thread she. K&R

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2. Yes brer cat.

“The way we deal with this situation is we breathe life into you”

We breathe life into you. We do not choke it out of you...