A group of White school students in Texas has been disciplined for setting up a "Slave Trade" messaging group that assigned prices to their black peers.
A teacher in Texas has been suspended after she pictured herself placing her foot on the neck of a black ten-year-old boy in the wake of Derek Chauvin's guilty verdict.
Faith Odunsi, a student of The Ambassadors Schools, Ota, Ogun State, recently won the Global Open Mathematics Tournament, an international competition with participants from Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Australia.
A school has threatened a Muslim schoolgirl’s parents with court action for refusing to send her to school in a shorter skirt. Siham Hamud, 12, had been wearing an ankle-length skirt to school for years but was allegedly told the school uniform was incorrect last month.
An Alabama senior sick in the hospital was physically unable to make it to her high school graduation. But Cynthia Pettway, of Mobile, still crossed her graduation stage and received her diploma with a little help from a robot and an iPad.
At her age, Alannah George is already obsessed with numbers and words to the extent that she taught herself how to read when she was just two before stepping foot in the classroom. George, who is from Iver, Buckinghamshire, southwest of the Greater London area would rather recite her alphabet and times tables rather than sing nursery rhymes as most children do.
Every year, the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction awards this literary prize to one female author chosen from the millions of women all over the world who focus on feminity and other related different themes.
High school senior Michael Love knows what it’s like to have doubts in himself. Yet, his is a story that should inspire anyone who wants to overcome challenges. For Michael, this meant gaining acceptance into 41 colleges and being awarded over $300,000 in scholarships.
A Georgia teen demonstrates how a budding young student can excel when she’s able to focus on her goals. Just ask 17-year-old Jordan Nixon from Douglas County High School. The high school senior says she doesn’t “study all the time,” but she does the study. In other words, she has balance and knows how to manage her time.
In a presentation about leadership values and sportsmanship to athletes of Madison High School on Saturday, Joe Piro, who is the Athletic Director of Nutley High School in New Jersey and was a guest speaker juxtaposed photos of Martin Luther King Jr. and Adolf Hitler, describing the former Nazi leader as ‘good leader’ with ‘bad moral character and intentions,’ according to NorthJersey.com.
The2018edition of the Times Higher Education World Rankings, which lists the best universities in the world, was unveiled on Thursday, February 22. In its ranking of the 200 best African universities, Togo, like French-speaking universities, remains largely underrepresented among the lucky women elected.
A Connecticut woman has sued Harvard University for allegedly making money out of early images of African slaves who she claims are her ancestors.Tamara Lanier, who filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Massachusetts, claims that the images, which were taken in 1850, depict an African man called Renty, who was her great-great-great-grandfather, and his daughter Delia.
A professor of African and Latin American studies, who has always pretended to be a Black woman, has now revealed she has been living a lie. Jessica A. Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University has been claiming to be of Black and Latina heritage.
The Senate of the University of Lagos has elected Prof. Folasade Ogunsola as its Acting Vice-Chancellor. The senate gathered this morning on August 24 to elect an acting VC.
It will be naive to assume that your children do not know what is happening in the world, especially the global protests to end violence against Blacks following the killing of George Floyd. Now at what point in time do you have “the talk” with your children on how to awaken their black consciousness?
Eton College has apologized to the first black student to complete his studies there, Dillibe Onyeama, after he was subjected to years of racial abuse from his fellow students and then banned from visiting the school when he wrote a book detailing his abuse. Nigerian-born Dillibe Onyeama was ridiculed by students because of his race during his stay in the school.