Nationwide — The entire graduating class at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, is celebrating the fact that all of them have been accepted to college. What’s more, they earned a combined $9.2 million in scholarship awards. St. Augustine High School is a private, all-male college preparatory school that has been one of Read More…
School board member’s son ignites an uproar after urging people to shoot Black people ‘for fun’ in viral video Child holding gun An investigation is underway after a video went viral showing a Maryland high school student — who is the son of a local school board member — holding a pellet gun and saying, Read More…
Zindzi Thompson, a 21-year-old Black woman from South Carolina, has made history as the youngest person to graduate from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee. She is also the youngest Black female graduate of medicine in the United States. Since she was as little as 3-years old, Zindzi has always dreamed of becoming a doctor. Read More…
Nationwide — Commondre Cole, a 45-year-old father from Meridian, Mississippi, has graduated from college at the same time as his daughter and his son. All of them simultaneously earned master’s degrees in education from Mississippi State University-Meridian. Iesha Gully, who is a 27-year old second-grade inclusion teacher, was the first in the family to decide to Read More…
Meet Shania Muhammad, a 14-year-old African American student from Oklahoma who has graduated with two associate degrees from both Oklahoma City Community College and Langston University, making history as the youngest graduate known from both colleges. Shania has always been an achiever in school, even receiving an ACT score of 22. During the pandemic, she Read More…
Urban Prep Academies senior Amari Austin, who was accepted at 73 different schools, walks onstage as to the applause of the faculty during the school’s Signing Day celebration at Daley Plaza on Thursday in the Loop, Thursday afternoon, May 19, 2022, Amari Austin’s house brings to mind that Harry Potter scene in which a blizzard Read More…
