A seventh-grader in Ohio recently received a 10-day suspension from school — because he liked a photo of a gun on Instagram. It wasn’t even a real gun in the photo. It was an airsoft gun that Zachary Bowlin and his friends use to play airsoft in the backyard. The photo was captioned, “Ready,” and […]

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One Miami woman took the term “overprotective mother” to a whole new level. Ernstlatta LaFrance is facing various charges for retaliating against a teen girl who fought her daughter. Everything started when LaFrance’s daughter got into a scuffle with a group of girls at a county fair. Following the incident, 30-year-old LaFrance, her daughter, and […]

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Two Staten Island parents were hit with racism this past week when a chiropractor sent them racist threats. The spine specialist was arrested after sending threatening notes to a Black NYPD officer and a White crossing guard with a Black child. On Monday, the police officer, Ebony Glover, was sent a letter reading, “My next opportunity […]

In today's joke, Rock-T talks about the incident at school.

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An investigation is underway within the Los Angeles Unified School District after a math homework assignment for second graders used slavery as its setting during Black History Month.

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In this day and age with Donald Trump as the leader of the free world, it's not uncommon to be confronted with the topic of race.

Rickey Smiley got a very noisy call from Black Tony, who was in an ambulance.

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Baltimore City Public Schools released a statement pertaining to the video that emerged of a teacher calling her student “N****rs” Check out the statement and let us know how you feel about it. Check out the video that caused the Baltimore City Public Schools to release the statement.  

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WESTLAND, Mich. — A Michigan high school student was suspended after exposing her school’s water problem on social media. Hazel Juco told WXYZ she was concerned when she saw discolored water coming from the girl’s bathroom sink at John Glenn High School, but she had no idea that she would be suspended because of the picture […]

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Very few schools in America kick off their first day with an appearance by a Grammy-winning music mogul. However, Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School isn’t just any school. It’s the one that Diddy built. Originally announced back in March, the new school is the product of five years of planning by Sean “Diddy” Combs as […]

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She will take a year off before beginning school in 2017. Ending months of speculation, the White House announced Sunday that Malia Obama will attend Harvard University. But the 17-year-old will not head directly to the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts after graduating from Sidwell Friends this spring, she “will take a gap year before beginning […]