A Guide to Preparing for an Upcoming Exam
*We’ve all been in that anxiety place when it came to preparing for an upcoming exam. Everyone expects great results from you, you expect to pass well, and all this only adds pressure. But you must...
View ArticleBoss Moves: Dr. Erika James on Becoming 1st Black & Female Dean of Penn’s...
*History is being made on two fronts today at the University of Pennsylvania as Dr. Erika James begins her first day on the job as dean of the world renown Wharton School. She is both the first woman...
View Article1st Black Female Valedictorian in School’s History Takes After her Grandma...
*Nina Mitchell, a 17-year-old who has become the first Black female to be named valedictorian in her high school’s 159-year history, achieved the honor 61 years after her grandmother also earned the...
View ArticleInternet IDs White Girl Who Boasted of Having COVID-19 in College Party Video...
*Texas Tech officials are investigating after video of a young woman boasting about having COVID-19 while at an outdoor party went viral. The woman not only proclaimed that she had the virus, but also...
View ArticleAn Adorable Case of the Itis: This Cutie Is All of Us Trying to Be...
*This adorable child has gone viral for her struggle to stay awake and the narrator’s hilarious decision to sync her repeated nod-offs to a boring college lecture in which the professor keeps waking...
View ArticleWhy Jackee Harry Quietly Paid Tuition for 8 College Graduates (Watch)
*While Vivica A. Fox and Jackée Harry stopped by “The Tamron Hall Show” Monday to talk about their new holiday film on OWN titled “A Christmas For Mary,” both opened up about individuals that helped...
View ArticleHigh School Senior Waits to Open College Acceptance Email at Mom’s Grave (Watch)
*Skylar Hughes was 11 years old when her mom, Rasheda Hughes, suffered a brain aneurysm. After falling into a coma, she died the following year. But Skylar wasn’t about to let a huge moment in her life...
View ArticleLSU’s African American Studies Program to Become ‘Department’ in Historical...
*The “African and African American Studies” program at Louisiana State University is getting an upgrade. The LSU Board of Directors recently approved a request for the program to become its own...
View Article‘A Lot of My Lower Ones Are Blacks’: Georgetown Law Professor’s Zoom Remarks...
*Georgetown Law has announced it will investigate a professor who complained about the competency of her Black students in a Zoom call with another professor. “We learned earlier this week that two...
View ArticleCollege Student Creates Pop-Up Shop for Black Beauty Products That the Campus...
*It all started over braids. UC San Diego freshman Jaida Day moved from Los Angeles to La Jolla to attend UC San Diego in 2018, and immediately noticed the lack of beauty supply stores in the...
View ArticleBrown STEM Girl: Alana Wicker, 12, to Attend Arizona State University Toward...
*A gifted 12-year-old girl with dreams of becoming a NASA engineer is about to take a giant leap forward toward her goal. Alena Wicker, who lives in Texas, will be virtually attending Arizona State...
View ArticleProfessor Put on Leave for This Response to Student Who Called Police...
*A Cypress College professor is on leave after a Zoom video of her irritable response to a student who called police “heroes” went viral. The exchange happened during a recorded online session and...
View Article‘If I Could’ve Done Cartwheels Across the Stage’: Great-Grandma Earns College...
*Vivian Cunningham, a great-grandmother of three, earned her undergraduate degree in liberal studies at Alabama’s Samford University at 78 years young. “If I could have done cartwheels across the...
View ArticleVIDEO: Oklahoma Teacher’s Full Summer Class Canceled Due to Bill Banning...
*A teacher in Oklahoma is disappointed with Gov. Kevin Stitt after one of her summer classes was canceled due to the state’s House Bill 1775, which bans educators from teaching certain concepts of race...
View Article‘Your Accounts Have Been Cleared’: This HBCU Surprised Grads by Forgiving...
*Graduates at Wilberforce University got an unexpected parting gift during the school’s commencement ceremony. “Your accounts have been cleared and you don’t owe Wilberforce anything,” said Elfred...
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