“I promised myself before I got out of that bus that no matter what the outcome was that, you know, I was just going to try to do better for myself,” he told ABC News. “I knew that I wanted to better myself, and I did that.” McKinley was arrested for a gang-related murder when […]
He detailed the bond between him and the former pastor turned professional bodybuilder that has allowed him to be who he is. After thanking Union for her dedication to being “ten toes down” for the LBGTQ+ community, Pope continued with his personal thank you’s. “I wanted to take this moment to thank all of the […]
Learn to pull yourself out of the fire of pain and live a life of meaning and purpose. As Black people, we are more likely to face a traumatic experience or suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But being Black is about more than the violence that has been perpetrated […]
From the Publisher Publisher : Happy Fox Books; First edition (November 23, 2021) Language : English Hardcover : 32 pages ISBN-10 : 1641241292 ISBN-13 : 978-1641241298 Reading age : 4 – 8 years Grade level : […]
Two high schools in New Orleans are celebrating having 100 percent college acceptance rate for 2022 graduation class. St. Augustine High School, an all-Black boys school had all their 100 graduates were accepted to college and earned a combined total of $9.2 million in scholarships according to Vicksburg Daily News. A spokesperson for St. Augustine […]
An all-girls high school in Brooklyn, New York is celebrating its first graduating class in the school’s history. All the graduates of Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy (BELA) Charter School have been accepted to college. The school opened in 2017he school has aimed to help overcome the educational inequalities encountered by Black and Brown youth by […]
The Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy’s (BELA) 2021 graduating class is the school’s first graduating class to have a 100% college acceptance rate, Patch.com reported. BELA’s graduating class is comprised of 50 students with 90% of the girls in the senior class identifying as Black. The monumental achievement also marks a first for 75% of the […]
The University of Kentucky has offered their apologies after falsely giving prospective students admission to its school’s clinical leadership and management program in the College of Health Sciences. The students were accepted to the program, which usually admits only 35-40 students per year, according to a email sent on March 15 that read “We are […]