Harvard University’s Newest Freshman Class Will Be A Majority Non-White
The freshman class entering Harvard University in Fall 2017 will consist of a majority non-white student body for the first time in the school’s 380-year...
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Chicago Won’t Allow High School Students To Graduate Without A Plan For The Future
The mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, has announced a new plan that will require all students graduating from high school to provide a plan for...
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Black Student Files Discrimination Lawsuit After Being Forced to Share Valedictorian Title With White Student
Sherry Shepherd, has filed a federal lawsuit against her daughter’s Mississippi school district. She claimed her daughter was discriminated against because her child was forced...
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School Accused Of Covering Up Student Created “Kill List” Targeting Black Students
Some students at Monta Vista Highschool in Cupertino, CA, have been accused of making a “kill list” targeting Black students. Parents at the school are saying the...
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75% Of Black Male Students Don’t Meet California State Reading Standards
Three out of four African-American boys in California classrooms failed to meet reading and writing standards on the most recent round of testing, according to...
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Genius Brothers, 11 and 14 Years Old, Graduate from High School and College
Two brothers from Texas have graduated from high school and college at the same time. Carson Huey-You, is just 14 years old and has graduated...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
