Organizers say they plan weekly protests outside the Schwartz federal courthouse.
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San Diego County Office of Education will hold a Black College Expo this week. -
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The university's trustees voted to strip the name of a one-time governor who led the Ku Klux Klan from a campus building and rename it solely for the school's first Black student. -
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