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The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to offer schools guidance on complying with federal nondiscrimination laws following a review that found students of color with disabilities are disciplined more harshly than their peers. The administration rescinded Obama-era school discipline guidance in December, saying states and local districts should decide […]

Saying yes to Black excellence.

One Florida teen is receiving harsh reprimands from the internet after a picture of his promposal goes viral. Spectrum News 9 reports, that an 18-year-old student from Riverview High School made a promposal sign asking a girl out to prom using a racist phrase. The sign read, “If I was black I’d be picking cotton, but I’m white so I’m picking […]

A Black psychology student at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas aced her final exam under extreme conditions: She was in labor.

The Morehouse College football player whose extra credit rap video for his biology class went viral, says the whole idea started on a whim as he was sitting in bed one night after a game. Julien Turner, a linebacker for the Maroon Tigers, said he was listening to a Lil Uzi song when he got […]

The Morehouse College football player whose extra credit rap video for his biology class went viral says the whole idea started on a whim as he was sitting in bed one night after a game. Julien Turner, a linebacker for the Maroon Tigers, said he was listening to a Lil Uzi song when he got […]

Nicomi Stewart of Rochester, NY, told WHAM TV that she’s “shocked” and “disgusted” that her daughter’s name has been mispronounced as a racial slur multiple times in automated calls from the city’s school district. Stewart said she was in disbelief after receiving a robocall informing her that her daughter Nicarri had not arrived at Edison […]

It’s hard enough to be a Muslim America in our new Donald Trump lead country, but for 18-year-old Yasmin Seweid, missing curfew is even more awful. The New York college student was arrested earlier this week for claiming she was harassed on a subway train this month by a few, drunk, Trump supporters. According to reports, Seweid was […]

It’s no secret that student loan debt is a huge issue in America in general, but of course, minorities bear the brunt of that burden. Click on the audio player to hear more information about this story in this edition of The Jazzy Report on The D.L. Hughley Show! Listen to the “The D.L. Hughley Show” LIVE weekdays […]

  I have some new information to share about the Columbia, South Carolina school resource officer caught on tape manhandling a high school girl. CNN learned last night that he is Richland County, South Carolina Sheriff’s Department deputy named Ben Fields. He has been placed on administrative duties and will not return to the high […]

Once again, a video of officer misconduct is going viral. A female student in a high school classroom in Columbia, South Carolina refused to leave the classroom after she reportedly became disorderly. A school security officer was brought in to escort her out of the class. Instead, he threw her out of her chair and […]

Video footage of a South Carolina Police Officer picking up and throwing a student while inside of a classroom has surfaced online from earlier today. In the footage, which was reportedly taken at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, shows the officer confronting a student, who appears to be a female, before picking […]