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New York (CNN Business)It's been nine years since Michael Robinson of Columbus, Ohio, nearly lost a major part of his family's legacy. He's still fighting to regain full control of it. In 2012, the 57-year-old married father of four, who is Black, found out someone he'd never met named James E. Deshler II was suing his family members to force them to sell their portion of the 127 acres of Barlow Bend, Alabama, farmland that they'd inherited from Robinson's late grandfather, Joe Ely. The local county auditor's website determined last year that the land is worth more than $212,000. The...

Although Elijah Preccieley isn't close to being old enough to drive yet, he'll become a full-time student at Southern University in Spring 2019, WBRZ reports.----WBRZ reported a Southern professor first encouraged Preccieley to try to take classes at the university. Preccieley told WBRZ that his months of classes at Southern "kind of had a snowball effect" on him that put him on the path to be studying physics and engineering next spring as an undergraduate sophomore. "I want other kids to know (that) if you serve the Lord, he rewards you because I can't do this by myself. I can't...

PETA wants LSU, Southern to free mascots 10:48 AM CST on Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Associated Press Baton Rouge -- An animal rights group is asking LSU and Southern University to release their mascots. That, in light of a recent tiger attack on a famous animal trainer in Las Vegas. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently sent letters to the schools, asking that LSU turn over Mike the Tiger and SU turn over its resident jaguar, Lacumba, to an approved wildlife sanctuary. PETA's senior analyst on animals in entertainment, Amy Rhodes, says keeping live mascots is cruel...