Davion Navar Henry Only is 15 years old. While most teens his age desire the next “it” item, he just wants a family. So on Sunday, his case worker drove him to a local church in St. Petersburg in hopes of finding him one.
All eyes have been on Chicago’s eduction woes. With the closing of more than 50 schools, everyone has something to say about how to fix the broken system. One student-led organization wants in on the fight, but according to Students for Education Reform Illinois, the fight is the problem.
In just a couple of weeks, the man convicted of murdering the “King of Pop” will walk free. Conrad Murray is set for early released from prison on October 28, completing his sentence for the involuntary manslaughter of Jackson. Why? The prisons are too crowded.
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.
This is one of those stories that is hard to believe. A school janitor at Campus Elementary School in Grand Rapids, Mi., tried to hire a couple of students to beat up a 4th grader. The 9-year-old said something he shouldn’t have to the woman who then put the “hit” out on the child.
What political party calls for a shutdown and then gets upset at the institutions affected by it? The grand ole Tea Party that’s who. In what was supposed to be a march in opposition of Obamacare, turned into an all-out bshing of the president.
A California mom is upset after her son came home from school with a sticker on his shirt. Kim Segaline noticed the “Lunch money please” sticker on her 7-year-old son last week. Preston, a student at Bonsall West Elementary, told her the lunch lady put it on him for her to see.
The Supreme Court will decide if affirmative action is a justifiable factor in college admissions on Tuesday. The judges will take on the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, a 2006 constitutional amendment banning the use of racial preferences in public university admissions.
When news broke that 24-year-old former FAMU student Jonathan Ferrell was killed by police last month, the subject of police brutality was once again pushed into national spotlight. Now police departments across the country are criticizing those charges.
A man who shot and killed an innocent bystander during a confrontation with a group of teenagers is free. 36-year-old Shannon Anthony Scott was arrested for killing 17-year-old Darrell Andre Niles.
A LAPD officer has been charged with assault for kicking a handcuffed woman seven times in the abdomen, upper thigh and stomach before she lost consciousness and died.
Marquis Taylor, 29, used to be a professional on Wall Street, but he left his six figure gig in real estate finance to fully dedicate his time to youth. Taylor now mentors low-income adolescents.
