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For the third year in a row, every senior at Urban Prep Academy, the only all-African-American, all-male charter high school in Chicago, has been accepted to college, the school’s leaders said. The academy also said that 83 percent of its first graduating class in 2010 has re-enrolled in a second year of college, a rebuttal […]
Political leaders, sport stars and entertainers were among several thousand people who gathered Sunday at a Miami rally to call for an arrest in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Florida teenager by a neighborhood watch volunteer. The rally in 17-year-old Trayvon Martin’s hometown was one of the largest yet and drew basketball stars […]
Authorities in New Jersey have arrested a rabbi from Argentina on child pornography charges. Passaic County sheriff’s detectives arrested 50-year-old Rabbi Gabriel Toledo at a…
A kindergarten teacher, Marie Bell, became a life-saver this week after she donated a kidney to the father of one of her students.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday praised Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) for wearing a hoodie on the House floor in protest of the Trayvon Martin killing in Florida.
First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to deliver the commencement addresses at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Oregon State University on May 11, May 12 and June 17 respectively.
The Rev. Wyatt, the first female international vice president of a major American labor union -- died Wednesday at Advocate Trinity Hospital, her family said.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says he’s confident the Supreme Court will uphold the constitutionality of the health care law. SEE ALSO: 6 Boys…
Oh snap, you better check your credit card statement! MasterCard is investigating a feared security breach linked to a credit-card processor in the US and Visa has reportedly launched a similar investigation.
Two Florida A&MUniversity music professors are on paid administrative leave following allegations they were present while band fraternity pledges were hazed University President James Ammons announced the action late Wednesday. It came on the heels of a Tallahassee police report saying Diron Holloway and Anthony Simons were present during the hazing at Holloway’s home […]
O prah Winfrey is telling some revealing behind the scenes information about her interview with Bobbi Kristina Brown. If you thought something was a little off when Oprah Winfrey interviewed Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kris, you were right! According to Oprah Winfrey, the interview “almost didn’t happen” because Bobbi Kris couldn’t be found. “I was on […]
Recently more than 500 movie theaters across the country showed actor Kirk Cameron’s new movie “Monumental: In Search of America’s National Treasure,” Tuesday, March 27. The documentary traces the steps of our founding fathers and the beliefs that led them to start a new country. But during his publicity […]