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Officer Ben Fields, the South Carolina police officer who was taped body-slamming a high-school girl will be fired. Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott, maintains that there is a third video showing the girl first hitting Fields, is expected to share his findings this afternoon in another press conference. The girl’s attorney has indicated that she suffered multiple injuries to […]
News outlets are abuzz with response to video that records an incident between a Columbia-area school resource officer and a female student at Spring Valley High School The video shows Ben Fields as he approaches a female student seated in a desk. He at some point puts arm around her neck and flips the desk over, forcibly […]
North Carolina Central University officials say an argument led to a shooting on campus last night, that sent one student to a hospital. A lockdown was issued at the school just before 11 p.m. The lockdown was lifted about 50 minutes later. University spokeswoman Ayana Hernandez Hernandez said in a statement this morning that there was not […]
News that a Black child was suspended for staring at a White classmate highlights an age-old debate about race, as well as the underlying notion of discrimination in schools when it comes to non-White students.
McGraw-Hill CEO David Levin believes his company has done more than enough to fix the erasure of slavery from their textbooks.
Three more people vowed to join the group in protesting the closure and ultimate reopening of Walter H. Dyett High School on the South Side
About 100 Black men gathered at a Hartford, Conn. school to dole out high fives to students on their first day of school.
A kindergartner from California was made to switch schools and leave his friends after administrators told his parents his “modern fade” was distracting to other children,…
This brilliant young woman was offered a spot by 26 colleges (and $3m in scholarships) http://t.co/0EcmyRlIPZpic.twitter.com/7PPnrWPf4b“ — Maham Masood (@1mahammasood) June 15, 2015 Black girls…
A solider gave his 8-year-old son a yearbook photo to remember when he surprised him in the most adorable way possible. Army Corporal James Bass surprised his…
Earlier this week we heard about Harold Ekeh, the New York teenager accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Now, Munira Khalif, a senior at Mounds Park Academy in…
A video clip of a California middle school vice principal telling a group of children he didn’t like the black students at the school is sparking…