The black valedictorian of a Mississippi high school was forced to share her graduating class’s top honor with a white student who had a lower grade-point average, the woman’s mother says in a federal lawsuit. The allegation comes months after the Cleveland School District settled a 52-year-old lawsuit demanding that it desegregate its schools Sherry Shepard noted […]
A senior at Martin Luther King Jr. High School in Riverside, California applied for as many scholarships as he was applicable. He was surprised to hear that his name called up during his graduation for a Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship for $1,000. Giggles erupted from his classmates as he went up to receive the […]
