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If you missed the National Urban League’s “Ask The Expert” Twitter chat last Wednesday, October 15, check out the Storify recap below. Bookmark this page to watch the monthly Twitter chats live.

During a show in Philadelphia on October 16, popular comedian Hannibal Buress came for the head of Philly’s own Bill Cosby, joking that his often condescending advice to Black Americans is negated because he “rapes women,” reports PhillyMag.com. RELATED: Barbara Bowman: Bill Cosby Drugged, Sexually Assaulted Me Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of ‘The Cosby Show’ “It’s […]

Plus size model and ‘American Idol’ alum Joanne Borgella has passed away at the age of 32 after an intense battle with a rare form of cancer, reports Plus Model Magazine.com. Plus Model Magazine has more: Joanne was the first winner of Mo’Nique’s Fat Chance pageant as “Miss F.A.T.” in 2005 and a top 24 […]

A Baltimore high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave and a student is facing charges after a fight inside a school was caught on camera, according to WBALTV 11. The incident happened Friday at Carver Vocational-Technical High School in West Baltimore, Md., after a verbal confrontation turned physical, the report says. School investigators […]

  Do you have any questions about how the Common Core is affecting your school-age children? Now’s a good time to ask. Join the conversation on Twitter, or see it unfolding above. Monthly, starting October 15, the National Urban League is hosting the first of a monthly Ask the Experts Twitter series to provide information and […]

We  recently launched the second phase of our Put Our Children 1st: Common Core for Common Goals campaign in partnership with One Solution, the creative and branded entertainment arm of Radio One, to stress the value of a public school education that provides all students with the best possible opportunity to reach their full potential and succeed […]

If you have a child in school, chances are you’ve heard about Common Core academic standards. Many people are unclear, however, on what they mean for our children. On the Oct. 3 edition of The Tom Joyner Morning Show, Roland Martin spoke with Marc Morial, the president and CEO of National Urban League, about the  misunderstandings around […]

“You can’t allow 15,000 school boards to home bake their own little standards subject to their own political pressures and think we are going to have international competitiveness.  We have to at least have some bare minimum core standards if our young people are going to compete.” — Congressional Black Caucus member, Rep. Bobby Scott […]

Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old California girl who was pronounced brain-dead after a routine tonsil and adenoid removal surgery to treat sleep apnea at Oakland Children’s Hospital last year, is now moving at her mother’s command and the family’s attorney is pushing to get the determination of brain death reversed. After she awoke from the operation, […]

  Pam Aister (pictured), an Arizona teacher, was fired for defending a Black student against racist bullies, CBS5 reports. SEE ALSO: Discussing The Media’s Anti-Black Bias The incident happened this past May at Four Peaks Elementary School. Fourth-grade teacher Aister noticed the student being harassed by five boys who’d targeted him before. The boys had reportedly […]

The revamped popular ABC-TV daytime chatfest “The View” is off and running, and after just two weeks, it seems there is disharmony between co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg (pictured left) and Rosie O’Donnell (pictured). Reportedly, the two women went at it during a commercial break on Thursday that resulted in Goldberg seemingly reaching her wit’s end and yelling to her […]

Lt. Nolan Anderson, 50, a 25-year veteran of the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s department, was on-duty and in uniform when he was shot and killed by fellow deputies during a domestic violence dispute with his wife, reports WGNO.com. RELATED: Angela Williams: Woman’s Death Following Walmart Shooting Ruled Homicide Okla. Man Beheads Co-Worker After Getting Fired From Job “No […]