Micheal Brown, a brilliant high school senior, is still waiting for a formal apology from Fox News – and he certainly deserves it. Brown has been offered a full ride in scholarships to 20 different colleges, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford – but his celebration was somewhat dampened after Fox anchors in Washington, D.C. […]
Nigerian American student Oludamilola Oluwadara, 17, will have to chose between Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and the London School of Economics to name a few.
Five years ago, 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found dead in his high school gym, rolled up in a mat. It was said that he went in the mats to retrieve a shoe and got stuck, but his parents never believed the official report. The Valdosta, Georgia residents believe their son was murdered, but no hard […]
It’s been 6 years since young king, Trayvon Martin, was shot and killed by gun-toting, wannabe cop, George Zimmerman. But with the killings of unarmed Black men by the hands of police happening everyday, the wound of Trayvon’s very public death still feels fresh. Black men being assaulted by police is an age old America […]
The debate surrounding the state of school security following last week’s deadly massacre in Florida has increasingly turned to arming teachers and police alike on school grounds.
A teenage girl witnessed her best friend being shot dead right next to her during the Parkland School Shooting. Samantha Grady, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, suffered injuries in the Florida school shooting on Wednesday, and recounted the horrific scene during a live broadcast on the “Today” show. On Thursday, she told Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb that she was […]
The story of the kidnapping of a Florida teenager has come to a sad end as the woman, Gloria Williams, who kidnapped and then raised Alexis Manigo has plead guilty. Born Kamiyah Mobley, Manigo will appear on an upcoming Iyanla, Fix My Life episode. She says that despite her mother’s crime, she still loves her, […]
Bresha Meadows is back home after serving time for shooting her father. The Ohio teen who gunned down her abusive father walked free this weekend. WLWT 5 reports that Bresha’s mother emailed The Vindicator last week to announce that her daughter would come home on Sunday. Bresha has been serving an eight-month sentence after pleading […]
It just goes to show how different a police officer’s perspective on how something actually went down can be from the rest of us. Take this latest incident, where a school resource officer was called to the campus of Helix Charter High School near San Diego around 1:30 p.m. on Friday because a student that was on […]
Atlanta is a Mecca for Black people and the home of a brand new African-American mayor in Keisha Lane Bottoms. But unfortunately, Atlanta is also a hotbed for criminal activity, especially carjackings. In this latest case, though, a mother was very lucky that a quick trip to a gas station convenience store didn’t end in […]
The Harvard couple took a little trip away from campus to visit New York City.
17-year-old Memphis-based entrepreneur Journi Prewitt created the Black Butterfly Beautiful box to inspire Black girls to read.
