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Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard has declined to bring sexual assault charges against three men at Morehouse and one at Georgia Tech. The two cases had lingered without charges for over two years because, according to Howard, they involved complexities surrounding whether one can consent under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Spelman College is considering admitting transgender students, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution. 

Going to college at a predominantly White institution (PWI) as a queer Black woman was difficult on its own. However, when considering that I was also first-generation and low income, I was at a severe disadvantage academically, professionally and socially. This is why a recent story about a Pitzer College student’s request to live with […]

A new law was passed in Illinois to make it mandatory that driving classes teach students what to do if they’re pulled over by police. Because we all know that when these situations escalate, it’s almost always the civilians fault, right? According to ABC 7 Chicago, Governor Bruce Rauner signed the law into effect this […]

A unidentified law professor at an unidentified law school is receiving praise for schooling their students on everything that’s right about Black Lives Matter.  A first-year student’s initial criticisms of the professor wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt to lecture resulted in the professor boiling down their entire argument into a “premise” and “critique” breakdown.

A new study has taken a close look at any disparities in the U.S. education system along the fault lines of race and learning disabilities. While some of what the 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection revealed was positive, a vast majority of it raised concerns over common education practices. The study took a sample size of 50,035,744 […]

Anyone who has taken introductory English courses has likely realized that the widely considered greatest writers in history are mostly white men. While Hemingway, Chaucer and Shakespeare surely contributed mountains of iconic work towards English literature, they aren’t the only great writers we’ve had and some Yale students are tired of their program acting like they […]

For many students, their most dependable meals throughout the day come from schools, many of which offer lunch, breakfast and even an after-school snack in some cases. But what are they expected to do when the food they get is covered in mold? Students at Chicago’s West Town Academy had to ask themselves that very […]

UCLA’s campus was put on lockdown this past Wednesday as reports of a shooter on campus began to spread following three gunshots. Two hours later, Police Chief Charlie Beck declared the University safe after finding both the victim and suspected shooter in the school engineering office. Reports now confirm that the victim was UCLA mechanical engineering […]

Teachers being adventurous and occasionally adding new things to the curriculum often leads to more well-rounded students. But there’s a line you just don’t cross. And a language arts teacher for a group of 8th graders at Burns Middle School left that line miles behind with a recent quiz she handed out. The 10-question quiz included […]

Far too many children are having life-long memories either taken away or ruined for nothing else than being themselves. Whether it be because of a poem, a goatee or a kente cloth, this is getting far out of hand. Nyree Holmes was set to participate in graduation from Cosumnes Oaks High School in Elk Grove, California. […]

Myneisha Johnson was tragically killed a week before her graduation from Booker T. Washington High School in Memphis. To honor the young woman’s hard work, the school allowed her grandmother and 1-year-old son to accept her diploma. This is usually seen as a touching honor – something similar happened with a friend when I was […]