Let Girls Learn officially launched at a special presentation at The White House on Tuesday. Let Girls Learn is a global effort to promote education for girls and women because an approximate 62 million of us have had our education challenged. President and First Lady Michelle Obama stood with the USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and the […]
Comedian/actor Affion Crockett graduated from Fayetteville State University and credits the HBCU experience as the reason he’s a comedian today. He talked to the…
John Legend, in a personal essay posted on CNN, expressed his views on how a less run-of-the-mill educational system would benefit the various interests of so many students. The empowering essay is a part of the larger initiative of Reimagine Learning, a $30 million ambitious project funded by the philanthropic New Profit. Reimagine will financially support this exciting academia movement […]
Three authors collaborated on the instructional book Promises Kept: Raising Black Boys to Succeed in School and in Life, and Joe Brewster, Michele Stephenson, and Hilary Beard were all honored with the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Instructional)! Similar to the film Boyhood, Promises Kept was years in the making, as co-authors Brewster and Stephenson are […]
Who said Dorks finish last? Not so in the world of Rachel Renee Russell’s “Dork Diaries” — the recipient of the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for children. The New York Time’s Best Selling series. The Diaries chronicle life of Nikki Maxwell, who is based on Russell’s true life teenage daughters Erin and […]
Loretta Devine took home the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for her role as Hallie The Hippo in “Doc McStuffins,” a Disney and Disney Junior cartoon series about a little Black girl who can “fix” toys, with help from her stuffed animal friends. This cartoon has become a wildly popular hit […]
The above pictures has broken the internet. It’s been shared more than 140,000 times, it’s gotten over a million likes and the comments are in the 20’s of thousands. In case you’ve been living under a rock, you may not have heard of Humans of New York. What started as a social media account offering […]
On January 22nd, two days after delivering an epic State of the Union address, President Obama participated in an interview called #YouTubeAsksObama with three of social platform’s most popular vloggers GloZell Green, Bethany Mota and Hank Green. It was another chance for the President to reconnect with the concerns of the youth, as he’s done before with MTV sit-downs with […]
Imagine going to college for 2 years for free if you just had to keep good grades. Sounds simple enough and that’s exactly what the White House is trying to to. On Thursday, President Barack Obama announced a proposal where two years of free tuition would be granted to students attending community college. In a video […]
