A Maryland teacher has been awarded the Varkey Foundation’s $1 million Global Teaching Prize for the work she does to enrich the lives of students. Keishia Thorpe teaches English to 12th-grade students at International High School at Langley Park in Prince George’s County, with her students largely coming from first-generation American, immigrant, refugee and low-income…

Source: JEFF KOWALSKY / Getty Last week, we reported that Kevin Gough, the attorney representing William “Roddie” Bryan, one of the three men accused of hunting down and killing Ahmaud Arbery, found the unmitigated caucasity to stand up in a courtroom and declare in front of a judge and jury that “We don’t want any…

“I would like to swiftly remove myself from any of the ‘hostile’ behavior put on display moments ago,” DaBaby wrote in an Instagram story. Chart-topping rapper DaBaby appears to be in hot water with the public again. He’s accused of calling police to remove singer Danielle Leigh Curiel, the mother of his youngest child who…

California Rep. Karen Bass had some choice words on lawyer Kevin Gough’s remarks about the presence of Black pastors in the courtroom. Comments made by Kevin Gough, the lawyer representing William “Roddie” Bryan, continue to incense African American leaders, who worry that Bryan and the other two men accused of murdering Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery…

EXCLUSIVE: Johnson, a best-selling author and activist, says push to remove “All Boys Aren’t Blue” from school libraries is erasure driven by anti-queerness and anti-Blackness. George M. Johnson’s debut book, a memoir-manifesto, All Boys Aren’t Blue, was met with an outpouring of support and fanfare. “The book came out during the early days of the…

Source: USA Today / USA Today If one were to ask the question, “Where are all the good cops?” a lot of people would get offended. “Back the blue” America would call such a question anti-cop propaganda and police unions would get up in arms and whine about how the days are long gone when…

Bannon, 67, was indicted on two counts of criminal contempt – one for refusing to appear for a congressional deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena. Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday to face contempt charges after defying a…

“I’m at a loss of words for what they’ve done,” Nya Sigin, a Minnesota teenager said earlier this week after a now-viral video showed a fellow student at Prior Lake High School in Savage, Minnesota, engaging in racist behavior, targeting her and her sister Elizabeth Sigin.  “It was just the most disgusting thing I’ve ever witness…

The charge is only a misdemeanor, but it had appeared to be among the likeliest to net a conviction for prosecutors. The judge at Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial has dismissed a count of possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18. The charge is only a misdemeanor, but it had appeared to be…

“Get us free, bruh!” read Evans’ caption on her Instagram series Sunday, capturing the supposedly split pair doing cartwheels in the sand. R&B songstress Faith Evans shared a series of video clips of her and husband Stevie J frolicking on the beach amid reports that the couple had filed for divorce.  “Get us free, bruh!”…