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Lil Baby is looking out for kids in Atlanta. The rapper hosted a back-to-school drive on Sunday, giving away laptops, school supplies and new clothes to kids in the area as they prepare to head back to classes in the fall. Baby also offered merch from his Four The People Foundation at the event. Baby posted photos […]
Target has joined the growing list of retailers and restaurant chains offering educational assistance for its employees. The retail giant announced Wednesday that it would pay for the full cost of college for its U.S.-based part-time and full-time employees. Target plans to invest $200 million over the next four years in the program, which will offer debt-free assistance for select […]
A school board meeting in North Carolina’s Buncombe County turned hostile after unruly protestors showed up to object the school’s new mask mandate. The Buncombe County Schools Board of Education passed the motion Thursday morning in a 4-2 vote, stipulating that face coverings be required for all unvaccinated staff and student in grades K-13 inside […]
Trae tha Truth is always showing up for his fellow Houstonians. On Wednesday, the rapper/activist called on his followers to help get into contact with Jaydeen Buckley—a teenage boy who spent weeks selling water to raise money for school clothes. Jaydeen’s efforts were shared in a Facebook post that eventually went viral. “Please stop by and buy […]
The Texas state Senate passed a new bill dropping the requirement for public school teachers to instruct students that the Klu Klux Klan is “morally wrong.” Senate Bill 3 passed with an 18-4 vote on Friday in the Republican-led Senate and will be considered by the Republican-led House, according to the Hill. The measure also drops several other […]
An Alabama high school teacher was sentenced to 10 years in state prison last week, following a guilty plea to having sex with two of her students. Carrie Cabri Witt, who is now 48 years old, will have to serve a year-and-a-half in state prison, another year-and-a-half in the community corrections program, and then the remaining […]
Kodak Black marked the 4th of July by giving back to his native Florida. The rapper purchased $12,500 worth of air conditioners this week and hand-delivered them out of a truck to residents at the Golden Acres Projects in Pompano Beach, dropping them off door-to-door. The rapper even brought some residents to tears, TMZ reports. All in all, Kodak […]
A photo alleging to show a group of white high school students wearing matching “White Lives Matter” t-shirts has put a Pennsylvania school district in the middle of a growing controversy. In the Snapchat photo, which was featured in a VICE News report from Samir Ferdowsi on Tuesday and was previously circulated on Facebook and Reddit, […]
Emory’s School of Medicine apologized on Wednesday to 83-year-old Marion Hood for rejecting his application over six decades ago because he was Black, per Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “I am sorry I must write you that we are not authorized to consider for admission a member of the Negro race. I regret that we cannot help you,” the […]
Pharrell is expanding the education arm of his nonprofit, Yellow, to include a handful of private schools aimed at serving low-income students in his hometown of Virginia. He’s opening the first school in Norfolk, Virginia’s Ghent neighborhood, close to his Virginia Beach hometown. “If the system is fixed and unfair, then it needs to be broken,” Williams […]
