A pair of Harvard University Business School students saved the day by hosting a Spades clinic and free-for-all worksheet to address the embarrassing conversation surrounding “not knowing how to play spades.” Understanding the need for a safe environment to learn the game, the creators, Alliyah Gary and Chelsea Grain Jefferson, created the clinic. Before the Thanksgiving […]
NBA point guard Phoenix Suns point guard Chris Paul graduated from Winston-Salem State University on last week, and gifted $2,500 to every person in his class. After his team’s win against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday, Paul showed up in North Carolina to graduate from the school with a bachelor’s degree in communications. Paul joined his […]
A 14-year-old student at Lake Weir Middle School in Summerfield, FL is reportedly facing grand theft charges after authorities say the teen girl swiped approximately $13,500 of her grandmother’s life savings from her safe and handed $10,000 of it out to her classmates. The police report states that the middle school student distributed hundreds of […]
A North Kingstown, RI teacher is now being investigated after a few middle school boys felt uneasy about the way he was interacting with their female counterparts and took the initiative to do something about it. It began as early as sixth grade. The boys noticed behavior they weren’t comfortable with from the beginning. On […]
“One of the reasons we went this route is to get it out there that this is not gone. It is still very much alive, and it is still very much happening,” Burris said. Alyssa says the chants from the other students were loud enough that she couldn’t hear her own voice. The teen told reporters it […]
George W. McLaurin case was pivotal to Black American’s getting there civil rights. McLaurin case damaged the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” legal position. The scholar held a master’s degree from the University of Kansas and was a professor at Langston University an Historically Black College and University, until 1948. NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall, Oklahoma attorney […]
A group of parents have filed a lawsuit against Minnesota school system claiming that their Black children faced racially biased bullying and discrimination from students and staff, including racist slurs and physical attacks according to NBC News. One teacher claims cut off a student’s locs and threw it in the trash, the parents allege. Kali […]
ShareTweetSubscribe A video of a Georgia high school graduation has gone viral after a graduating student threw money at students during the ceremony. Atlanta rapper Metro Marrs is in the graduating class of Langston Hughes High School. Marrs has newly signed rapper to the Quality Control Music record label. The label is home to other […]
A Texas school district is under fire after students created a social media group chat where students were pretending to bid on Black classmates, the group was labeled with a racial slur and the word “auction.” The Aledo Independent School District now says it has disciplined students for the group. A parent of a student […]