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*There are plenty of students that have problems to contend with at home that no one knows about. These brave soldiers still get up every morning and go to school to get some relief from their situation and try hard to focus. Drew Gooch is a high school senior that was living in his 1997 [...]
*The artist known as MC Lyte has been a luminary figure in Hip-Hop for well over 20 years. For 10 of those years she was considered the best female emcee in the game, but for the past decade or so Lyte has made it her life mission to legitimize that which has seemingly become bastardized. That being [...]
*It’s graduation season and part of the excitement for teenagers crossing the stage is knowing that they have already been accepted to colleges throughout the U.S. But the most important part of that acceptance is knowing they have the money to attend. In Riverside, California, a $1,000 scholarship for college from the local Martin Luther [...]
*The queen of Hip Hop Soul explained the issues involving a recently revealed lawsuit regarding her charity. Mary J. Blige and business partner Steve Stoute were faced with a serious issue when their organization, Mary J. Blige Steve Stoute Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now [FFAWN], was hit with a major suit. In a [...]
*Most people are happy for P. Diddy’s son’s acceptance into UCLA. Even P. Diddy was shocked that the boy had already gotten to 18 and is graduating from high school. But plenty of people are trying to rain on their parade with talk of Justin’s full-ride to the university. The controversy started when folks heard [...]
*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 [...]
*Hockey is one of those sports that black men do not represent in so well. There are very few African American men that are either playing or interested in playing hockey. But whether the interest is there or not, there is a rising interest in black males and one organization is recruiting from historically black [...]
*The Little Miss African American Scholarship Pageant celebrates Black History Month 2012 with this year’s event slated for be held Sunday, February 12, 2012, 4:00 p.m. at the Wishire Ebell Theater,4401 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. The longest running pageant for little African American misses, the scholarship event has a history of dedication to continuing a legacy [...]
*Another scandal has erupted involving several current and former football players at the Ohio State University being implicated in exchanging signed memorabilia for goods and services. There has been the requisite amount of debate over who is to blame with the lion’s share of blame going to the now former coach: Jim Tressel. Fortunately though, [...]
Texas! Erykah Badu is about to make a home return in concert with the one and only Prince at “theEvent” benefit show in support of Gross-Michael Foundation’s scholarship program. Badu will be taking to the stage right before the high-heel wearing, style of his own, singer comes out to perform some of his classics along [...]
*Atlanta’s Booker T. Washington High School could not be represented better this year than when Deonte Bridges took to the stage to address the crowd for the 2010 graduating class. He is leaving to go to Emory where he has a full scholarship. But not only does he have a scholarship from the school, he has [...]
*Blair Underwood salutes the academic achievements of Los Angeles area high school graduates Sunday as host of the Rites of Academic Passage Ceremony, to take place at 11 a.m. at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Through a program of poetry and song, thirty-seven high school seniors demonstrate their academic mastery and emotional maturity. Upon completion, the [...]
*In Verizon’s continued support of Black History Month, they have teamed with United Negro College Fund to give students a chance to further their education. Applicants are required to write an essay about how the evolution of wireless technology has changed the world we live in, and they can win a scholarship award toward their [...]
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