The Florida Board of Education has approved shocking new standards for African American history, despite overwhelming backlash from the public. Allison Quin Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Gett Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a “personal benefit” because they “developed skills.” After the Florida Board of Education Read More…
An American imprisoned in a British mental asylum became one of the greatest contributors to the English language. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images. William Chester Minor opened his eyes and gazed sleepily at the figure of a man looming over the foot of his bed. The intruder, who had been hiding in Minor’s attic during Read More…
A devastated young boy couldn’t imagine living without his mother, crying at her grave. Then, he suddenly felt a woman’s hand on his shoulder, startling him. Kevin was only six years old when his mother died in an accident. Since then, he’s lived in an orphanage as he never met his dad and had no Read More…
17-year-old boy sentenced to life imprisonment for bashing Spanish teacher to death with bat over bad school grades One of the two teens in Iowa, USA that bashed their high school Spanish teacher to death with a baseball bat over a bad grade was sentenced Thursday, July 6 to life in prison. Willard Miller, 17, Read More…
Execution by shark attack, or “The Pig Basket Atrocity.” In WWII the Japanese had captured several Allied resistance fighters in Java and tied them up in woven baskets used to transport pigs. Instead of just shooting the men, the Japanese wanted to dispose of their captives to ensure their enemy suffered greatly and their bodies Read More…
Based on legislation approved by its governor earlier this year, Baltimore County’s Kayla Drummond, a rising senior at Parkville High School, will be the first student board member with budgetary voting powers. A $2.6 billion budget that covers everything – from textbooks to school buses, has long excluded one member of the Baltimore County school Read More…
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