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Actress Sonequa Martin-Green is empowering the next generation of STEM innovators through a new partnership with Frito-Lay Variety Packs. The post Actress Sonequa Martin-Green Supports STEM Education Initiative appeared first on NewsOne.

“I think people were a little skeptical. Could I truly do it, since I was the first one to try it?," she said. “But I knew I wanted to teach."

Grambling's volleyball coach has been fired for allegedly cutting the entire team upon her hiring, revoking each scholarship in the process.

The late great Martin Luther King Jr. had an opinion on use of the N-Word, which was recently revealed in a letter up at auction for $95,000.

An educators group out of Texas suggested that the word "slavery" be retaught to second graders as "involuntary relocation." 

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court approved a Black woman's right to sue Harvard for profiting off images of her enslaved ancestors.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin recently confirmed that recent school shooting site Robb Elementary will soon be demolished.

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Pharrell Williams’ nonprofit has teamed up with the tech company Cisco to bridge the digital divide amongst youth.

A Maryland educator hired for a DEI gig in Cherokee County, GA was ousted by anti-CRT parents & then targeted after moving on in Cobb County.

Teachers packing heat alongside lunch may soon be the norm in Ohio thanks to a new firearms law signed by Gov. Mike DeWine.

A new exhibition in Louisiana is dedicated to honoring the 272 enslaved people sold by Georgetown founders in order to pay off school debts. 

Stacey Abrams hosted One Georgia Fest: Grad Edition where body positivity advocate and dynamic artist Yung Baby Tate performed earlier this week.