Michelle Obama Alma Mater to Name Athletic Complex After Her
Whitney
Young Magnet High School will name its new $4.3 million athletic
complex in May after the former first lady,
Michelle Obama. The Chicago Sun Times r... Read More...
Education
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Auctions Off NBA Championship Rings For STEM Education
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Lakers legend, announced Wednesday that he will be auctioning off his sports memorabilia that spanned more than 20 years to be... Read More...
Madison Teacher Put On Leave After student Says He Pushed her and Ripped Out Her Braids
Madison Metropolitan School District placed acting principal
Rob Mueller-Owens, who is white, on leave after he allegedly pushed a Black student
and ripped out... Read More...
Sixth-Grader Arrested In Florida After Refusal To Participate in Pledge of Allegiance
A sixth grader in Florida was arrested
earlier this month after refusing to recite the pledge of allegiance. In a news release, the Lakeland Police Departme... Read More...
Substitute Teacher Tells Black Students MLK Killed Himself and Clothes ‘Marked Them for Prison’
A white substitute music teacher at a North Carolina elementary school resigned after she was accused of making racist and inflammatory remarks to her minority... Read More...
Bennett College Raises $8.2 Million in #StandWithBennett Campaign
Bennett College President Dr. Phyllis Worthy Dawkins announced
Monday that the private four-year historically black liberal arts college for
women in Greensbor... Read More...
Morehouse College Receives $1.5 Million Gift From Billionaire Robert F. Smith
Morehouse College announced
that billionaire and philanthropist Robert F. Smith has made a $1.5 million
gift to the historically, all male black college in Atl... Read More...
New York Middle School Conducts Strip Search on Four 12-year-old Black Girls
Officials at Eastern Middle School, located in Binghamton, N.Y, have been accused of making four Black girls endure a strip search on Tuesday, January 15th. Th... Read More...
Gentrification
By Stephanie Teasley Back in June, CBS News reported that due to “thousands of well-paid techs” living in California’s Bay Area, a family residing there wit... Read More...
Marcus Garvey: Racial Redemption and the Awakening of the African Diaspora
By: Dr. Kheftusa Akhiba Ankh Marcus Garvey was one of the foremost political leaders of the early 20th Century. He courageously advocated pan-Africanism, Bla... Read More...
Actors Danny Glover and Delroy Lindo Join Inaugural From the Fire Summer Leadership Academy for Young Men of Color at Princeton University
New York, New York — Leadership development, mentoring, and Rites of Passage are the focuses of the new From the Fire: Leadership Academy for Young Men on July ... Read More...
The Schomburg Center Pays Homage to the Black Power Movement
History books only teach us about the non-violent period of the Civil Rights movement, mentioning the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. In honor o... Read More...
Black Women Photographers & Artist Discuss Positive Art Representation
"Mfon", which directly translates to "I have seen the goodness of God" as explained by moderator and Deputy Editor of "MFON: Black Women Photographers of the Af... Read More...
Dr. Janice Ellis Says Women Should Pursue Their Dreams Without Fear
"As my story unfolds in these pages it will show that while we have made progress through two iconic movements— civil rights and women's liberation, we still ha... Read More...
