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Some members of Rutgers University voted to cancel plans for Condoleezza Rice to speak at the May’s commencement ceremony. Professors at Rutgers-Newark voted to call on the administration to disinvite the former Secretary of State because of her role in the Iraq war.

Former classmates of a teen who mysteriously died in his school gym have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the Georgia teen’s death. Kendrick Johnson was found dead in a rolled up gym mat in the Lowndes High School gymnasium in January 2013. A coroner originally ruled his death an accident, but a second […]

A Minnesota Class 3A state high school wrestling contender may have lost his match, but he won the hearts of many this week. St. Michael Alberville High School sophomore Mitchell McKee wanted to win the state championship for his father, and he did by pinning Blaine High sophomore Malik Stewart around 1:22 in the face-off. […]

A 15-year-old Mississippi high school teen was suspended after a picture of him displaying three raised fingers surfaced. On Feb. 3, assistant principal Todd Nichols summoned Dontadrian Bruce of Olive Branch High to his office. Nichols showed Bruce a photo he had posed for during a recent biology project, and suspended him for holding up […]

  After serving time in prison, rapper Lil Boosie has been released. And while many fans took to social media to celebrate his newfound freedom, singer/actor Jason Weaver took to Instagram to express his disapproval of fan’s actions. 

The unemployment rate for Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 who have only a high school diploma grew by 4.3 percent in 2013, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Unemployment for those in that age group for those who have a college degree rose 1.5 percent and as a result, more college […]

The following post originally appeared on ChicagoNow.com, a compilation of bloggers based in Chicago. It was written by Sylvia Snowden a Chicago-based journalist, associate producer of The Black Social Network  play,  and the President of Always Onyx. Follow Sylvia on Twitter @TrulySylvia. But I thought He Wanted to Try By: Sylvia Snowden I recently had an opportunity to read an article […]

Toward the end of last month, flyers featuring the hashtag #dbkgu started to appear on the campus of Georgetown University. The group responsible for the flyers revealed the meaning of the hashtag. “Dangerous Black Kids of Georgetown University” is the latest social advocacy group seeking to call attention to race relations on college campuses. 

By: William Darity Jr. It is now standard fare to hear that black economic progress requires young people in particular to alter their attitudes and behaviors. They repeatedly are told, in effect, “to pull up their pants”, to take financial literacy classes, to be more punctual, to speak “proper” English, and to be more polite or courteous. The […]

The National School Boards Association (NSBA) has partnered with New Regency, Penguin Books and the filmmakers of 12 Years a Slave to distribute copies of the film, book and study guide to public high schools in America. The initiative, headed by Montel Williams will be launched nationwide in September.

Ethan Brisby was the first to attend college in his family, and like many students, figuring out how to pay for his education was at the top of his list. As a way to give back to the young urban community, the Morehouse College graduate has written a book detailing ways to pay for college.

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.