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Chance the Rapper recorded his mixtape 10 Day using the YOUmedia lab at a Chicago Public Library. Now, he’s making sure that more kids have an opportunity to use digital media tools by aiding the creation of a new YOUmedia lab on Chicago’s South Side. From Chicago Inno: Students on the South Side of Chicago […]

  The following piece is from Atlanta Black Star. It was written by Taylor Gordon. By: Taylor Gordon The Ku Klux Klan may be largely responsible for the history of white voters in the deep South showing unwavering support for the Republican Party, a new study has revealed.

  Sean Groubert, the South Carolina state trooper who shot Levar Jones in September during a routine traffic stop, is claiming that Jones was the aggressor. Footage from the police car dash cam shows Groubert pulling over Jones for a seatbelt violation. Jones reaches to grab his wallet, per Groubert’s instructions, but is then shot […]

  A South Carolina trooper who shot an unarmed man for what appears to be no apparent reason was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault and battery. Sean Groubert was fired from the Highway Patrol after the shooting incident. He now faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted for wrongfully shooting driver Levar […]

  Residents of a South Carolina town say they woke up to candy from the Ku Klux Klan on their front lawns. Individuals who reside in an Oconee County subdivision found the bags between Saturday night and Sunday morning. 

Two men were arrested at a South Carolina Waffle House after they refused to comply with a security guard’s order to pull up their saggy pants. Andrew Gehring, 22, and Donovan Johnson, 22, were charged with “causing a disturbance” after being asked to “pull up their pants and not show their boxers.” 

    Southland College Prep Charter High School’s first graduating class will see a 100 percent graduation rate. Every single student is going to college. 

  Former U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds was recently brought up on charges of sexual misconduct while in Africa. Now Reynolds says that he “fears for his life” and is reportedly hiding in South Africa. 

A University of Missouri-St. Louis student has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. Loren Moseley, a secondary education graduate student will spend eight months working at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. 

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was born in Georgia during a time of high racial tension. He recently compared the segregated part of the country to the North of today, saying that the “supposed anti-slavery” North has caused him more grief than the historically racist south ever did. 

There has been a shooting at South Carolina State University, a historically black university located in Orangeburg, SC. At least one person has been injured.

At least 22 states currently have some form of “Stand Your Ground” legislation on the books. The American Baptist Chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is the latest group to protest the controversial form of legislation.