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Dallas School District Officer Put on Administrative Leave after Slamming 12-Year-Old Girl and Fracturing Her Clavicle
Mariana Benton returned to Piedmont Global Academy School Tuesday with her left arm in a black sling. “Her clavicle is fractured,” her mother Alma Valadez said, while Mariana haltingly tried to describe her injury. “He didn’t say anything,” said the 12-year-old, after being asked if a Dallas ISD police officer apologized to her after throwing […]
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Black Student Asked by School to Change Her Natural Hair Because It Was Against Hair Policy
A Florida teen was asked to change her natural hair because it was against dress code policy. 16-year-old Nicole Orr is a junior at the private Montverde Academy in Lake County, FL who says she is known for her curls, but she never thought she would be singled out because of them. “People say they […]
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Buffalo, NY Mother Arrested For Homeschooling Her Kids
Kiarre Harris, a single mom in Buffalo, NY realized her school district was failing to properly educate her two elementary age children. So she filed the necessary paperwork to formally remove her kids from public school and begin the process of homeschooling them herself. Ms. Harris says she went to city hall and picked up […]
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Cameron Clarke is One out of only 32 Rhodes Scholarship recipients for 2017
Having always been a high-achiever, being selected to receive a Rhodes Scholarship for 2017, is the highest achievement to date for Cameron Clarke. After graduating from McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, NJ, Cameron is now in his senior year at Howard University. He will be graduating college with a double-major degree in biology and community health. The Scholarship […]
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Black Archaeologist Searches To Find Sunken Slave Ships
Ibrahima Thiaw, an archaeologist from a rural part of Senegal, is making it his mission to find slave ships that sank during the Atlantic slave trade. During one excursion, Dr. Thiaw was in search of an 18th-century slave ship that sunk off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. As he made his way out into the choppy waters […]
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One Woman’s Mission To Help Students and Families Pay For College
At just 26-years-old, Jessica Brown is the CEO of her own company, collegegurl.com. After being laid off from her job at Howard University, Jessica wasn’t sure what her step should be. Knowing that she had extensive knowledge in navigating the various ways in which to pay for college, Ms. Brown decided to turn that knowledge […]
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Black Women Top List of Most-Educated in Country
The most educated segment of the U.S. population is, Black women! In a recent study published by the National Association of Education Statistics, Black women are receiving the most college degrees. The study looked at data from 2009-2010, and it showed Black women earned 68% of all Associate’s degrees, 66% of all Bachelor’s degrees, 71% of […]
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Kevuntez King: This Teen Paid For His College Tution by Selling Newspaper for 5 Years
Kevuntez King always knew he wanted to get a college education. So at the age of 12, he started selling newspapers, with the goal of saving money to pay for his tuition. Every Sunday for five years, rain or shine, King stood on the corner of Poplar Avenue and Estate Drive in Memphis selling newspapers. […]
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Anaya Ellick: 1st-Grader Born Without Hands, Wins Penmanship Award
Although she does not have hands, 7-year-old Anaya Ellick has won the Nicholas Maxim Special Award for Excellence in Manuscript Penmanship. She was born without hands and stopped using prosthetics because she felt they slowed her down. Anaya is a first grader at Greenbrier Christian Academy in Chesapeake, VA and has some of the neatest handwriting in […]
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Thessalonika Arzu-Embry Is The Youngest Female To Ever Enter A Doctoral Program
At the young age of 17 Thessalonika Arzu-Embry has already accomplished what many people twice her age have not. Thessalonika graduated from high school at age 11, earned a B.A. in psychology at 14 and an MBA at 16. She is the youngest female to ever enter a doctoral program. Thessalonika, who resides in Chicago, […]
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Ithaca College president resigns after protests over race issues
After months of protesting at Ithaca College in New York, then followed by votes from students and faculty this past fall, has finally lead to the resignation of Ithaca College’s president. Thomas Rochon will step down as president of the school in July 2017. Students protested the lack of action taken by the school's president regarding racist incidents on [...]
