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A Philadelphia high school senior who sent out applications to 20 colleges has gotten offers of more than $1 million in combined scholarship money from a bunch of those schools. ABC News reports that Shanya Robinson-Owens got accepted into 18 of those places. At the moment she still goes to George Washington Carver High School of Engineering […]
Police have dropped a charge against a Black teen from Plano, Texas, after said teen was arrested last week for walking in the middle of the street when the state was freezing over. Local police chief Ed Drain told KDFW-TV that a charge against 18-year-old Rodney Reese is being dropped. Reese had spent a night […]
As part of an interview he was having with a guy he gets mistaken for a lot (see: Elijah Wood), Daniel Radcliffe said that looking back at his acting during the Harry Potter era gives him intense embarrassment. To put it in perspective for non-adolescent movie stars (me…and I assume you?) he wondered to the Empire Magazine audience how […]
An art collector has reportedly purchased the Kanye West paintings featured on a 2020 episode of PBS’ Antiques Roadshow series. The collector in question, per a recent Page Six report, is entrepreneur Vinoda Basnayake. According to the report, Basnayake went searching for the portfolio—which includes paintings and drawings by a teenaged West across multiple mediums—after […]
It has not been a good week on the internet for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. As someone taking home five times the average American’s income, we figure she’ll be fine, but the rookie congressional representative from Georgia has been repeatedly called out this week over her history of fringe-right beliefs and advocacy of harmful conspiracy theories. […]
On Friday a judge sentenced a Florida teen to 45 years in prison for the crime of strangling his mom to death. 17-year-old Gregory Ramos had previously admitted to killing his mother, 46-year-old Gail Cleavenger, as the two argued over a bad grade he got back in November 2018. He was 15 at the time of the murder. Appearing […]
A Virginia mother is calling for justice after her teenage son was fatally shot by state police. According to the Richmond-Times Dispatch, 18-year-old Xzavier Hill was killed Jan. 9 following an alleged high-speed chase on Interstate 64. State police say officers began pursuing Hill after he was spotted in Henrico County driving 98 miles per house in a […]
Colin in Black & White, the forthcoming limited Netflix series created by Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay, has found its lead. Jaden Michael, whose previous credits include The Get Down and Wonderstruck, will star in the series as a young Kaepernick during his high school years. Image via Netflix The first entry in the six-episode […]
COVID-19 continues to become one of the world’s biggest medical mysteries as it claims the life of a seemingly healthy North Carolina teenager. Appalachian State University sophomore, Chad Dorrill, died on Monday after contracting COVID-19, The Charlotte Observer reports. His mother, Susan Dorrill, stated in a now-private Facebook post that her son didn’t exhibit any known symptoms […]
An investigation has been launched after surveillance footage from within a Florida corrections facility showed a deputy hitting and choking a Black teen. The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that Terrance Devon Reed III, the 17-year-old featured in the video, was shown getting into a violent encounter with corrections deputy, Neil Pizzo. The incident went down at the Sarasota County […]
