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One student was killed in a shooting at a North Carolina high school on Wednesday, ABC News reports. The shooter, who is believed to be a classmate, is still at large, according to police. William Chavis Raynard Miller Jr. was fatally shot Wednesday afternoon at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Miller Jr. was transported to Atrium Health Wake […]
A Kentucky educator has been removed from the classroom after he was filmed fighting a student in a school hallway. According to The Courier-Journal, the altercation occurred earlier this month at Marion C. Moore High School in Louisville. Video shows a white teacher, identified as William Bennett, pinning a Black teenager to the ground as other students attempt […]
The University of Virginia has disenrolled more than 230 students for not complying with the school’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement. The Virginian-Pilot reports 238 students, including 49 who were enrolled in fall courses, were disenrolled after “receiving multiple reminders via email, text, phone calls, calls to parents that they were out of compliance.” Approximately 96.6 percent of the UVA student body is fully vaccinated […]
21 Savage hosted his sixth annual Issa Back 2 School Drive initiative in Decatur, Georgia this past weekend. Presented by the rapper’s Leading By Example Foundation, the event served a community of 1,500 students and families, sponsored by Chime, Juma.org, Amazon Music, and Reebok, and in partnership with Momma Flystyle, Dekalb County, and Cosmopolitan Night Club. Together, […]
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 […]
Phylicia Rashad offered a “sincere apology” to Howard University students and parents on Friday after facing backlash for defending Bill Cosby’s vacated sexual assault conviction and subsequent prison release. “My remarks were in no way directed towards survivors of sexual assault. I vehemently oppose sexual violence, find no excuse for such behavior, and I know that […]
A medical student at Midwestern University in Glendale, Arizona was arrested after allegedly threatening to bomb her school and kill several people. According to CNN, Mona Asadi, 29, faces four felony counts of computer tampering after using a laptop in a “course of conduct that threatened, terrorized or tormented specific individuals.” The university’s dean reported a […]
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 […]
Manhattan’s prestigious Dalton School has announced the resignation of Justine Ang Fonte—a teacher who ignited backlash over her controversial sex education lesson for first-graders. According to the New York Post, the head of the school, Jim Best, confirmed the move in an email to parents Friday, months after Fonte showed the young students a video about masturbation. The film featured children […]
A Colorado high school principal has resigned after a photo of three students reenacting the murder of George Floyd surfaced last month, per CBS Denver. Mead High School Principal Rachael Ayers announced in May that an investigation was underway in response to a photo on Snapchat showing one student in blackface lying on the ground with another kneeling on his […]
