Actress Zendaya is known for serving looks and this weekend she delivered, again. This time the 24-year-old paid homage to Beyoncé during Sunday night’s BET Awards. The actress wore a recreation of the purple and lime green gown from Versace’s spring 2003 collection that Beyoncé wore 18 years ago during her performance of “Crazy in […]
After growing up with two parents in the Navy, Raquel McCray decided she, too, would enlist in the maritime branch when she turned 18. To her surprise, this year, the now 25-year-old was given the opportunity to work alongside her mother, Master Chief Logistics Specialist (LCSM) Tanya McCray, after being temporarily assigned to her ship. […]
A high school assignment has sparked controversy among a group of Pennsylvania students and parents who say the classwork included biased questions about the Derek Chauvin trial and George Floyd. In the criminal justice class at Bishop McDevitt High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, students were instructed to answer 10 questions about the trial, in which […]
North Carolina Elementary School Apologizes For Having 4th Graders Write Pro-Slavery Twitter Hashtags For Civil War Assignment A North Carolina school district has released an apology after students at a elementary school that gave students pro-slavery tweets and hashtags for a Civil War-era assignment. Waxhaw Elementary School students are encouraged to adopt personas from the […]
A Mississippi middle school is facing backlash after a teacher assigned an essay asking students to pretend they’re slaves. The incident took place at Purvis Middle School in Lamar County, Mississippi, as part of what was supposed to be a lesson on the “atrocities and negatives of slavery,” WDAM7 reported. Titled the “Slave Letter Writing Activity,” the assignment prompted the students to […]