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An incident at a Lee Summit, Missouri water park went viral this week, with a video showing a Black family not being granted entrance to the park. The footage shows the family speaking with a white woman, who appears to work at the park, and either a security officer or cop standing next to her. While much of […]
A Florida teen has been hospitalized for three weeks after going swimming and being infected by a brain-eating amoeba. Caleb Ziegelbauer’s family told CBS News their 13-year-old son was at Port Charlotte Beach Park on July 1, where they believe he came in contact with the organism. Five days later Caleb was taken to the hospital—where he has remained […]
Alena Analeigh Wicker has made history. The 13-year-old Texas girl was recently accepted into the University of Alabama’s Heersink School of Medicine, making her the youngest Black student to ever gain admission into a U.S. medical school. Alena received the big news back in May, just a year after she received her high school diploma. Since then, the […]
Corion Evans is being lauded as a hometown hero. The 16-year-old Mississippi teen was recently honored for helping save four lives from the Pascagoula River in Moss Point. According to WLOX, Evans was near the river on Sunday when a vehicle carrying three girls drove into the body of water and began to sink. The teen immediately […]
A California jury on Tuesday found Bill Cosby liable for sexually assaulting a woman at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was a teenager. NBC News reports the Los Angeles County jury determined that Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Judy Huth, who is now 64, when she was 16 years old. Cosby was 37 years […]
Five students from Georgia and their mothers have filed a lawsuit against Coosa High School and the Floyd County School district for alleged racial discrimination. CNN reports that the five students, all of whom are Black, have accused the Rome, Georgia school and its district of violating their First Amendment and equal protection rights. “The Plaintiffs, […]
Kailia Posey, a young star of TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras and face of a viral grinning meme, has died at the age of 16, her mother shared to Facebook. Marcy Posey Gatterman shared a photo of her late teenage daughter to social media on Monday, announcing that Kailia “is gone,” as she asked for privacy for her […]
A 13-year-old boy is on track to earn his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota this year. As ABC News shares, teenager Elliott Tanner will earn his bachelors after majoring in physics with a minor in math, and currently holds a 3.78 grade point average. The teen has already been accepted into University of Minnesota’s Physics PhD program […]
Two Florida teenagers were pronounced dead Tuesday after the driver crashed into a canal and a Good Samaritan dove into the water to try and rescue him, People reports. Venkata Sai Krishnamurthy, 18, was reportedly headed to Taco Bell around 11 p.m. after leaving a basketball game when the accident occurred. Krishnamurthy was allegedly lost at the Residence of Sawgrass Mills neighborhood when […]
A family’s years-long search for their autistic son has finally come to an end. According to KTLA, 19-year-old Connerjack Oswalt was found safe last week in Park City, Utah, about 700 miles away from his home in Clearlake, California. The teen, who was diagnosed with autism eight years ago, was just 16 when his family reported him […]
