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*Lil Wayne was hospitalized in Los Angeles on Tuesday for what is being reported as multiple seizures. The rapper was rushed to Cedars-Sinai on Tuesday night after recording a music video and then released Wednesday morning and is doing much better, TMZ is reporting. Earlier this week, Nicki Minaj released Jacuzzi photos from her video [...]
*Parents are outraged after discovering that the cast of a high school production of “The Wiz” is all white. Originally cast with a slew of black stars as a direct response to the white version of “Wizard of Oz,” officials at an upstate New York school is being blamed for not marketing the musical to incorporate a more diverse (aka [...]
*The beautiful moments in America keep us loving the country and the folks in it. The Sunshine state is one state that desperately needs a little sunshine with all the mayhem that’s been reported out of there. In Port St. Lucie, Florida, this past weekend, St. Lucie West Centennial High School crowned Hakam Daley their [...]
*Once when I was in high school a friend and I cut class together. We were smart enough to create a fake doctor’s note for the teacher, but we walked around the neighborhood where everybody knew us, knew we should have been in school and – unfortunately for me – knew my mother’s phone number. [...]
*Rapper Drake is now the proud owner of a high school diploma. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] After tweeting that he’s been hitting the books hard for five months in summer school, the Young Money artist passed his finals with flying colors. “97% on my final exam. 88% in the course. One of the greatest [...]
*There are many inmates professing their innocence from behind bars, but this morning we tell a powerful story of freedom for a young man that fought to have his name cleared after prison. Thanks to a sensible judge and a recanted story, the wrongly accused young man has been freed. Brian Banks, 26, walks free [...]
*Detroit schools are under attack and taking hit after hit in performance. But, what do you expect when the city is under attack from all sides. They are even set to close more schools this year after closing over 80 schools during Kwame Kilpatrick’s reign. The students have had enough. A walk-out was staged by [...]
*In kindergarten and first grade, the school always asks that the parent provide clothes for the child in case of an “accident.” Well, normally those accidents are in the form of wetting their clothes and some of the children might say the teacher wouldn’t allow them to go to the bathroom. “The teacher didn’t see [...]
*First, they say we’re not going to school and that the high school dropout rate is out of control. Now everyone is aspiring to go to college and they’re taking the SAT to prepare. The students taking the test this year were more varied than other times which leads to a unsurprising result. (more…)
*Michael Jordan doesn’t look so tough now. His high school love letter surfaced recently making him look like a total cup cake. With his charm, the high school jock penned his love at Emsley A Laney High School in 1980. The letter, which was sold at an auction for $5,100.66 in December 2004, was posted [...]
*A lucky group of Tennessee high school students were encouraged by the president of the United States at their senior graduation Monday. Some cried, some laughed, some contemplated, and some just marveled. He told the smiling group of seniors, “You inspire me, that’s why I’m here.” Students who are typically labeled at-risk and poor and [...]
*Building on their duet “This Weed is Mine,” rap vet Snoop Dogg and newcomer Wiz Khalifa are teaming for a new film, “High School,” which the former calls “a comedy stoner movie, a little something for the stoners.” Snoop told Billboard.com that the duo — who recorded “This Weed is Mine” for his forthcoming “Doggumentary” [...]
*What can we say about Flavor Flav? He’s unpredictable and quite interesting. Since his phenomenal impact he’s had through his rap career with Public Enemy, he sort of revived himself, in a more pop culture kind of way, with reality television. Now he’s got his eye on another television production while he’s gearing up to [...]
*Actress Cameron Diaz was on “Lopez Tonight” and when host George Lopez “just happened” to ask her where she grew up and went to school, she said “the LBC” as in Long Beach, California. Well, the whole world knows that one skinny rapper in particular also grew up there and went to the same high [...]
*There are a batch of teenage football players out there that need to be applauded for what could be a dream come true play they made happen for a teammate. It even appears that they got the other team to go along with their play. The team was losing 35 – 0 and there were only [...]
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