Seventeen-year-old Sean Johnson is being charged with attempted murder after brutally beating his football teammate.
First Lady Michelle Obama honored a slain honor student during an emotional speech to hundreds of teenagers at King College Prep High School in Chicago Tuesday evening. The First Lady delivered her commencement speech after students at the high school won a contest promoting financial aid awareness by parodying the hit drama Scandal. Michelle also chose the […]
Another institution is under investigation after a noose was found hanging from a tree just a few miles from Ferguson, Mo. The noose was found at North Tech High School Wednesday morning, according to KMOV. It isn’t yet clear if a student or a member of the school staff discovered it. After the police were called, the device was taken down. […]
The head of a southern New Jersey Catholic high school issued an apology Monday to Black players on the Atlantic City High basketball team after two of his students dressed as a monkey and banana at a recent game, according to Press of Atlantic City. Reverend Perry Cherubini, president of Holy Spirit High School just […]
Spirit Week, a fun event for high school students that allows teens to get creative with costumes and sport their school pride, was shaken up when…
When Ted Gustus was a boy, he found his mother dead, lying on the floor of their railroad flat in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the background, Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” was playing. Both of them, mother and child, were affected by her alcohol abuse. But Gustus was no victim. Simultaneously, he experienced a death […]
There’s no question that winding up in the NFL is a career destination that many young Black men look at as preferable. Football, for so many young brothers, is a culture, not just a sport. You need only visit your local high school on a Friday night through the autumn to peer in to the […]
She’s come a long way from the girl ridiculed by people throughout social media and who was even asked by defense attorney Don West if she understood english. In her hometown of Miami, less than three miles from where her friend Trayvon Martin is buried, Rachel Jeantel was presented her high school diploma Friday. She said graduating was fulfilling […]
This week, an American ritual will repeat itself. Something that within the past century has morphed into a rite of passage for armies of adolescents, who with this tradition, will declare social adulthood. It happens the moment they put on the cap and don the gown. It becomes complete when the proud stroll across […]
A South Carolina teenage girl has been charged with assault for attacking an opposing player during a soccer match between two high school rivals this week, according to a Yahoo Sports report. SEE ALSO: Michelle Obama To Appear On “Biggest Loser” Annette McCullough, an 18-year-old senior who plays for Lewisville High School, has become the […]
A legendary high school football coach in New York has been accused of successfully pressuring school officials to change a star player’s grades so the teen would qualify for a full scholarship to college.
A Brooklyn high school is catching flack for its treatment of students after it barred students from using all but one of the school’s restrooms. Administrators at Brooklyn’s Science Skills Center High School said they locked all but one of the school’s bathrooms to punish kids for misbehaving. See also: Brooklyn ‘Before I Die…’ Chalkboard Outside […]
