A Smithville, Ohio, school resource officer was put on unpaid leave after allegedly using her taser to wake up a student who was sleeping during class reports News 5 Cleveland. The incident happened on Aug. 30 at Liberty Preparatory School. The male student, who is a junior, wouldn’t wake up for the teacher or Interim Principal […]
Fourth grader Addison Captain is making headlines for her back-to-school business BrownBackpack.com, a site dedicated to selling nearly 100 products to inspire children of color. “I’m not like the other kids who play video games and watch TV,” she says. “I like doing business work instead.“ Using the site Shopify, WKYC reports that Addison designs products by placing inspirational […]
Closures in Baltimore and Ohio have affected students and parents this week.
How could you still be hating on LeBron? The man just opened a school that has free tuition, free food, a free bike AND helmet, “you never see black kids in helmets.” James is doing so much good in the community and for himself, “the man grew his hairline back!” At this point if you’re […]
LeBron James took his talents to CNN and ESPN on Monday to promote the opening of his passion project – an elementary school for at-risk children in his hometown of Akron, Ohio. During his interview with CNN’s Don Lemon, the conversation expanded to include race and politics in the United States. The NBA superstar took the opportunity […]
Charles Lovett was followed home by a crazy white man.
If we could go to Wakanda...
An Ohio security guard at a Kroger grocery store is under fire for body slamming a 16-year-old African-American girl he suspected of shoplifting. Complex reports that 32-year-old Tom Clingo can be seen on video, recorded by Tevin Ford, body slamming the girl. Yelling and screaming can be heard in the background as Clingo got on […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A convicted killer in an Ohio prison claims in a federal lawsuit that his civil rights have been violated by the repeated cutting of his dreadlocks. The lawsuit filed on behalf of inmate Cecil Koger says his faith of Rastafarianism (rah-stah-FARE-ee-ah-nizm) requires him to wear his hair in dreadlocks. The lawsuit […]
Three Ohio pastors have been indicted on sex trafficking charges with prosecutors saying they all worked together to lure underage girls with money in exchange for sex. The Dayton Daily News reports that a grand jury indicted Rev. Cordell Jenkins, Rev. Anthony Haynes and Rev. Kenneth Butler to “conspiracy to sex traffic children.” Tuesday, November 14, 2017, all […]
The mother of 8-year-old Gabriel Taye recently said that there is proof that her son was bullied at Carson Elementary School in Cincinnati, Ohio before he committed suicide in January.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer captured on video apparently kicking a handcuffed suspect in the head also was involved in a fatal shooting last year. Columbus police said the officer, identified as Zachary Rosen, has been reassigned to non-patrol duty, pending an investigation. The video taken Saturday shows an officer restraining a […]
