Theresa Rudd wants to know what really happened to her son, and she’s hoping that a lawsuit filed against the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas will provide them. It’s been almost a year since 21-year-old Chavis Carter was found dead with a bullet wound in his head.
A Washington state high school is asking students and their parents to sign an agreement that bans twerking and other sexually suggestive dances during school events. River Ridge High School in Lacey sent home the dance contract earlier this month.
You are not alone! Yes I get it, the struggle is real. A lot of times in life we get to these plateau’s and we hate where we are. Once we get to this place, we feel like we will be stuck here forever. You’ve put in so much hard work, you’ve shed so many […]
Pastor Carl Sanders of Covenant Life Ministries takes the phrase “tending to HIS flock” quite seriously. So much to the point where the Evansville, Ind., pastor intervened as a man tried to rob a store clerk at gunpoint.
Grambling State University football players have decided to end their protest. The week-long boycott, which included the entire team missing a game against Jackson State, began after players felt that the school’s administration wasn’t taking their concerns seriously.
The highly-anticipated biopic on the Grammy award-winning R & B group TLC airs tonight. The two-hour movie stars Drew Sidora, KeKe Palmer and Lil Mama as T-Boz, Chilli and Lisa “LeftEye” Lopes respectively.
At just 16 years old, Stephen R. Stafford II has accomplished more than most of the general population. He is currently earning credits toward his triple major at Morehouse College —pre-med, mathematics and computer science.
Four California inmates are suing the nation’s largest private prison company for allegedly endangering their lives. The inmates were sent to North Fork Correctional Facility in Western Oklahoma as part of California’s efforts to ease prison overcrowding.
I am no stranger to the ways in which even young children already become socialized into society’s boxes. But my recent experiences working in a kindergarten classroom have me directly shouldering the burden of interrupting the ideological constraints that this world traps children within. Currently in the midst of my student teaching, working with five […]
For now, the government shutdown is over. President Obama signed a bill ending the 16 day partial shutdown of the country’s government. The bill also temporarily raises the debt ceiling.
Harry Belafonte is suing Dr. Martin Luther King’s heirs over property that he says was given to him by the late civil rights icon. Belafonte’s suit is in reference to three documents, photos and letters that chronicled his long friendship with King.
Saturday Night Live, the longest running network show in the country, recently announced new members of its cast. Shockingly, (not really), there are no black women cast members. This marks the sixth year since a black woman has been on the show.
