(Photo credit: Adobe Stock) Veteran educator and scholarship strategist Lavenre Mickesn, also known as the Scholarship Mama, opens up about the literacy crisis. Year after year, when veteran educator Larvene Mickens returns to the classroom ahead of her incoming students for professional development, she and her colleagues are given last year’s test scores to review…
Source: Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office / Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. Back in April, a former North Carolina police officer was arrested in Florida after being accused of planning to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a major music festival in New Orleans. In June, a Louisiana grand jury declined to indict the ex-cop…
Trumpets, trombones, tubas and French horns have suddenly landed in the middle of a national-security trade fight alongside industrial products, leaving critics to question how school band instruments became a threat to the United States. For now, the trumpets remain legal, the tubas are still playing, and no tariff has taken effect. But the debate…
Source: Super Scout / Getty Welp, good people, Black August is here. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Black August — including our white and eternally fragile brethren who are now rolling their eyes, saying, “OMG, not another Black month, as if Black History Month wasn’t enough” — the Center for Constitutional Rights defines…
Adobe Stock Images McKenna West, the surrogate who declined to terminate her pregnancy, has given birth in the Dallas area as a multistate legal dispute over the baby continues. The legal fight surrounding McKenna West’s pregnancy has changed dramatically as the baby at the center of the dispute has now been born. West, an Alaska…
Critics of President Donald Trump relish the opportunity to point out when he makes himself look foolish in front of the world. As one of the most photographed people on the planet, Trump cannot escape embarrassing moments from filling social media timelines. Sometimes the 80-year-old Republican sets himself up for ridicule, but this week, his…
At least six Black people have been found hanging in publicly reported cases across the U.S. in 2026. Several deaths were quickly classified as suicides, while families and communities in some cases have questioned those conclusions. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that young Black men are dying by suicide…
(Photo credit: Adobe Stock) For over 60 years, the Head Start program has been serving low-income families with far more than quality education. Presently, Head Start programs around the country are subject to student-to-teacher ratios designed to ensure children receive adequate attention, offer federally required health and developmental services—including health and dental screenings—and operate under…
As questions mount around the death of Nolan Wells, two other Mississippi families are living with a nightmare of their own. Years later, they are still searching for answers after their loved ones were found headless. Jeremy Jerome Jackson and Rasheem Carter were found dead in Mississippi five years apart. Both men were found with…
ESPN star Pat McAfee is a master of self-promotion, and he was front and center earlier this week with U.S. President Donald Trump at the 2026 Patriot Games. McAfee sat next to Trump at the Patriot Games, which were livestreamed on the ESPN app, while high schoolers competed to win $250,000 for college scholarships. McAfee’s…
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