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 A group of white Georgia high school seniors thought it would be funny to place a “n***a we made it!” sign on the side of their high school as a senior prank early Wednesday. Forsyth County high school officials say they were angered when they discovered the derogatory sign. 

Miami Heat star LeBron James and other players are threatening to boycott the NBA if Sterling remains owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.  According to Roger Mason Jr., the NBA Player’s Association president, James and other athletes say they aren’t setting foot on the court next year if Donald Sterling isn’t removed. 

Voto Latino, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and Google is teaming up to present the $500,000 VL Innovators Challenge. The tech competition will provide 10-15 Millennial-led projects that improve the lives of Latinos in the U.S. with $10,000-$100,000.

  Magic Johnson has responded to remarks made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. In a bizarre interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday, Sterling questioned Johnson’s character, as well as his contributions to the African American community.  During an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Johnson made the following statement:

The following post was written by Frank Simpkins, author of “The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Failure of America’s Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations. Simpkins is co-author of “Between Rhetoric and Reality.” By: Frank Simpkins An overriding theoretical, philosophical and political consideration of the cross-cultural approach to education […]

Earlier this year, YouTube comic, Magic of Rahat performed the ultimate stunt on a homeless man; he decided to give a lottery ticket to him. Beforehand, he gave the store clerk $1,000 to pretend it was a winning ticket and to give the cash to the unsuspecting man. After the video went viral, Rahat created […]

I was going to write about unwanted touching, or the missing Nigerian girls. Then I started thinking about the educational inequality in our country. But quite honestly, it’s the end of the school year, I’m working three jobs, and my brain feels like it’s melting sometimes. Sometimes I like mindless entertainment, although as a feminist […]

This piece originally appeared in TIME. It was written by Briana Payton, and appears under the original title, “Dear Privileged-at-Princeton: You. Are. Privileged. And Meritocracy is a myth.”  By: Briana Payton   While Tal Fortgang is not responsible for white male dominance in society, he should at least recognize that this social hierarchy is not […]

A Detroit teacher was fired after a cell phone video showed her using a broom to break up a fight between two students. In the video, two male students are fighting for at least 30 seconds before the teacher intervenes. 

A Chicago teen who collapsed during a high school basketball game last weekend has died. Jermaine Cullum, 16, was a sophomore at Christ the King Jesuit College Prep High School. He was playing in a tournament at Riverside Brookfield High School when he collapsed on the court after a layup. 

  The Free Marissa Mobilization Campaign is calling for a Mother’s Day Week of Action on May 9-18. The campaign is an effort to build support for Marissa Alexander’s freedom, an African American mother and survivor of domestic violence from Jacksonville, Fla. 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is offering to assist law enforcement in Nigerian as they continue their search for more than 250 schoolgirls who were kidnapped by Islamist militants. Holder has also ordered an intelligence assessment of the Boko Haram, the group claiming responsibility for the abductions.