Maine politicians are trying to attract the younger generation by forgiving up to $40,000 in student loan debt to first-time homebuyers. Maine Senate President Troy Jackson told Business Insider has a tough time filling its job market. Residents in the state are getting older and retiring, while at the same time, younger people may not have the capital for […]
Video Shows A Houston-Area Autistic Child Getting Beat Up By Another Student, While Three School Aides Seemingly Stand and Watch. The Aides Have Now Been Let Go Three Texas middle school paraprofessionals have been fired after a video shows them watching another student physically beat up a special-needs student. The aides stood around as spectators […]
Autherine Lucy Foster, the first Black student to enroll at the University of Alabama, died Wednesday. She was 92. University officials announced her death in a statement. Her daughter, Angela Foster Dickerson, said her mother died Wednesday morning and said a family statement would be released. Foster in 1956 briefly attended classes at the then all-white […]
This Black History Month, current and former Student Body Presidents of Harvard, MIT, and Wellesley are using their platforms to shed light on the achievements and sacrifices of the Black alumni at their respective universities. Danielle Geathers (MIT), Noah Harris (Harvard), and Tatiana Ivy Moise (Wellesley) made history in 2020 with their elections, marking the […]
A Louisiana high school student has been accepted to 106 colleges and awarded $4.5 million in scholarships. Kassidy Parnell has a 4.1 GPA, is graduating at the top of her class at Tara High School in Baton Rouge. The teen is also taking computer science classes at the Baton Rouge Community College where she is dual-enrolled […]
Check out the official Freedom Writers (2007) trailer starring Hilary Swank! Let us know what you think in the comments below. ► Buy or Rent on FandangoNOW: https://www.fandangonow.com/details/movie/freedom-writers-2007/1MV502c52ff638be55e0ef03ba62855e1b0?ele=searchresult&elc=freedom%20wri&eli=0&eci=movies?cmp=MCYT_YouTube_Desc Starring: Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey Directed By: Richard LaGravenese Synopsis: A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and […]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A Purdue University police officer received death threats and is on leave until further notice, the university said, after he was caught on video using his elbow to pin a Black student to the ground by the neck as the student yelled “You’re choking me.” The student, 24-year-old Adonis Tuggle, […]
Rapper Yo Gotti agrees to pay tuition costs for a student at Clark Atlanta University next semester. In celebration of his double album, “CM10: Free Game,” the Memphis rapper pledged to artists on the rise who shared a freestyle to his new single, “Dolla for Dolla.” After getting a number of submissions, Gotti took to went on […]
22-year-old FAMU grad student has been shot at a Tallahassee apartment complex. MaKayla “MK” Bryant passed away after being hit by gunfire at the Providence Pointe Apartments late Wednesday afternoon. She was taken to a local hospital, where she died from her injury later that night. Details around the cause of her death have not […]
A college student originally from New York City has been indicted on over 300 gun-related charges, accused of trafficking firearms into the Big Apple and illegally selling dozens of weapons to an undercover officer, according to prosecutors. Shakor Rodriguez, a 23-year-old Bronx native studying at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, was hit with […]