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According to a report by the Detroit Free Press, the reading proficiency of the third-grade children in Flint has dropped from 41.8% in 2013 to 10.7% in 2017. Flint School board vice president Harold Woodson says that the literacy crisis in the Flint community did not begin with the water crisis in 2013, and will […]

The House and Senate voted on Monday to temporarily resume normal government operation, effectively ending the shutdown that had been in effect since Saturday. Democrats and Republicans decided had been at a standstill over immigration policy. The legislation being advanced by the Senate’s 81-18 vote allows government funding for at least the next three weeks, […]

When Oprah Winfrey strolled to the podium at the Golden Globes to accept her Cecil B. Demille Lifetime Achievement award, what happened next seemed to capture the attention of the entire nation for nine minutes and forty seconds. Winfrey was not content to be the sole focus of her speech, however, and towards the end […]

In 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that required the state’s utility companies to acquire half of their electricity through renewable energy. Natural processes like sunlight, geothermal heat, water and wind are some examples of renewable energy. The timeline for compliance is 2030. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that three of California’s large […]

Deandre Harris, 20, is known throughout the world for the wrong reasons. Instead of his aspiring music career, he’s known for being the victim of a beating doled out by a group of white supremacists at this weekend’s “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va. A photo was posted on Twitter that showed Harris on […]

R. Kelly has been accused of hosting an abusive cult where he manipulates young women into living on his property and only eating, bathing, leaving and having sex with him on his orders. Buzzfeed made the shocking revelations on Monday morning when it published a thorough report entitled “Inside the Pied Piper of R&B’s ‘Cult’.” 

Darius Smith, 15, was fatally shot by an off-duty U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer in California who claims the teen was trying to rob him. The officer told authorities he fired in self-defense as Smith and two 14-year-olds – one of which was Smith’s cousin – tried to rob him at gunpoint after exiting […]

Last week, something Trumpian must have sparked a race between major publications to put out the most fucked up writings on the topic of slavery. On Tuesday, The New York Times compared Saartje Baartman–an enslaved Black woman who, in addition to the many other horrors she suffered both before and after her death, was forced […]

Ebony Archie left her car running with her son asleep in the back seat when she stopped at a grocery store on Thursday. When she came back outside, her car and her son, Kingston Frazier, were both missing. They were both found, with the six-year-old shot dead in the backseat, hours later, according to the New […]

Bresha Meadows has been in custody for more than nine months after killing her father and will not be released before trial. The 15-year-old has been charged with aggravated murder in the death of her father, Jonathan Meadows despite her attorney’s assertion that he was physically abusive to multiple members of the household.

Jordan Edwards, 15, was killed in a Dallas-Forth Worth suburb after a police officer shot into a car full of teenagers on Saturday night.

Detroit student King Thomas Moore is looking to foster a new poetry community in a mostly untapped age group. Moore wants to create an open mic series that highlights poetry in writers age 12 and under. He’s only 10 years old.