Homeless 8-Year-Old Nigerian Boy Wins New York Chess State Championship
Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a Nigerian refugee, won
the New York state chess champion. The New York Times reported that the 8-year-old placed first in the New York ... Read More...
Education
Scholarship Created In Honor of Slain Dr. Tamara O’Neal Killed in Mercy Hospital Shooting
A scholarship has been created in the memory of Dr. Tamara O’Neal who was killed in the Mercy Hospital shooting last November. The Chicago Sun-Times reporte... Read More...
NYC High School Students Lock Out Administrators In Protest of ‘Racist’ Video
Students at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx held a protest and locked administrators Monday over frustrations that nothing was being done over a ... Read More...
Teacher Holds Mock Slave Auction For Fifth Grade Class, New York AG Responds
A fifth grade teacher at Chapel School is accused of holding a mock slave auction last week and has now been placed on indefinite leave. The teacher, who is... Read More...
Mother Says 8-Year-Old Son Forced to Urinate in Trashcan at Manhattan Elementary School
A Los Angeles mother has claimed that her 8-year-old son was forced to pee in a trashcan in front of classmates and then wear a garbage bag to cover his wet cl... Read More...
Nanny of the Maroons: The Queen of the Mountain
If you Google images of the Blue Mountains in Jamaica, your eyes are captivated by the deep green of the vegetation that covers the mountain, the calming blue ... Read More...
Michelle Obama Alma Mater to Name Athletic Complex After Her
Whitney
Young Magnet High School will name its new $4.3 million athletic
complex in May after the former first lady,
Michelle Obama. The Chicago Sun Times r... Read More...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Auctions Off NBA Championship Rings For STEM Education
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Lakers legend, announced Wednesday that he will be auctioning off his sports memorabilia that spanned more than 20 years to be... Read More...
Madison Teacher Put On Leave After student Says He Pushed her and Ripped Out Her Braids
Madison Metropolitan School District placed acting principal
Rob Mueller-Owens, who is white, on leave after he allegedly pushed a Black student
and ripped out... Read More...
Sixth-Grader Arrested In Florida After Refusal To Participate in Pledge of Allegiance
A sixth grader in Florida was arrested
earlier this month after refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance. In a news release, the Lakeland Police Departme... Read More...
Substitute Teacher Tells Black Students MLK Killed Himself and Clothes ‘Marked Them for Prison’
A white substitute music teacher at a North Carolina elementary school resigned after she was accused of making racist and inflammatory remarks to her minority... Read More...
Bennett College Raises $8.2 Million in #StandWithBennett Campaign
Bennett College President Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins announced
Monday that the private four-year historically black liberal arts college for
women in Greensbor... Read More...
Morehouse College Receives $1.5 Million Gift From Billionaire Robert F. Smith
Morehouse College announced
that billionaire and philanthropist Robert F. Smith has made a $1.5 million
gift to the historically, all male black college in Atl... Read More...
New York Middle School Conducts Strip Search on Four 12-year-old Black Girls
Officials at Eastern Middle School, located in Binghamton, N.Y, have been accused of making four Black girls endure a strip search on Tuesday, January 15th. Th... Read More...
