A 17-year-old boy was charged Friday with making online threats of “ethnic cleansing” against Black and Hispanic students at the public high school in Charlottesville, Virginia, a city that was the site of a deadly white nationalist rally in 2017. The threats had shut down the city’s public schools on Thursday and Friday, drawing the […]
Who says young folk aren’t woke and into activism? Nope, that’s certainly not the case with a group of primarily black students at an exclusive private school with campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan. Students at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx staged a lock-in lasting several days in response to a racist video surfacing online. […]
A Black high school student in Oklahoma may be facing criminal charges after cellphone footage shows him knocking the MAGA cap off of a white teen’s head, and grabbing his “Trump 2020” flag and throwing it to the ground. The incident happened at Edmond Santa Fe High School and has since gone viral on social […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin high school is ending cheerleading awards given annually to girls with the largest breasts or buttocks — dubbed “Big Booty” and “Big Boobie” — after the American Civil Liberties Union demanded action following repeated complaints from parents and a former coach to school and district officials. Coaches at Tremper […]
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A purse containing a prom invitation, photos and other items from 1950s America will be returned to its now 82-year-old owner after workers found it while demolishing part of an Indiana high school. Martha Everett lost the black stitched purse more than six decades ago. Workers found it in January […]
Cardi B’s former AP Government Teacher, Joan Hill, has come to the rapper’s defense after fans and haters suggested she should stick with music instead of weighing in on politics. Joan Hill, who says she taught Cardi at Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and the Arts in the Bronx, posted a message to her Facebook […]
A Maryland High School student is accused of sharing a racist Snapchat post online because her school lost a basketball game by one point. “It was deplorable,” parent Jason Doyle told WJZ. “Kids these days and even adults shouldn’t be talking like that.” In the school’s parking lot, a student told WJZ that he knew the girl and […]
A South Carolina lawmaker is working on passing a bill that will require High School students to take a personal finance class. The class will teach them about budgeting, taxes, insurance and how to not end up buried in debt. The class will be mandatory for high school graduation. DL thinks this class is a […]
A star athlete at an Atlanta high school is being held in jail without bond after police arrested him on murder charges. Jalen Morgan, 17, was arrested on the campus of Alexander High School last week because they believe he was part of a conspiracy to commit murder in May of last year. Channel 2 reports, investigators believe […]
The test scores of a Black Florida high student have been called invalid when they increased by 300 points after she took the SAT a second time. Kamilah Campbell, 18, now said she would most likely miss the January application deadline to apply to Florida State University’s summer term, prompting her to hire a famed civil rights lawyer to […]
A high school teacher in New Hampshire has been placed on leave after she allowed two of her 11th grade students to sing a racist song for the class. The pair performed a song about the KKK killing Black people to the tune of Jingle Bells. Chris Paul responds by singing “you mfs are so […]
A New Hampshire school district placed a teacher on paid administrative leave during an investigation into video footage of two students singing a song with lyrics about the Ku Klux Klan and killing Black people, reports The New York Times. The Dover School District was working with students and educators at the school, Dover High, […]
