Laughter and cheers reverberated inside the Austin neighborhood’s By The Hand Club For Kids in celebration of an unlikely cause - reading.
About 100 exuberant...
The 730 freshmen and transfer students from 42 states and 15 countries that form Morehouse College's 150th class started their collegiate journey on August...
Chicago Public Schools will hold its public budget meetings this week. Parents and members of the community can attend and will have the opportunity to register...
In preparation for the new school year, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is launching a series of new events and resources to support families.
The first...
Over 450 Chicago students received school supply kits from Back 2 School Illinois Tuesday, with an additional 13,500 given to the organization's community partners.
Back...
Maybe it's time to hold IPRA Accountable
By Ken Hare
Chicago Defender Staff Writer
On April 21, 2015, Judge Anthony Porter acquitted Chicago Police Officer Dante Servin...
Three Black students waiting for a school bus in Rochester, New York were arrested after they refused police orders to “disperse,” reports Raw Story[1]. On Nov. 27., Raliek Redd, Wan’Tauhjs Weathers and Daequon Carelock were waiting for a bus, arranged by their coach Jacob Scott, to pick them up and take them to a scrimmage game. “We didn’t do nothing,” said Redd. “We was just trying to go to our scrimmage.” Despite their attempts to explain why they were standing there, police arrested them anyway. According to the police report, they were blocking “pedestrian traffic while standing on a public sidewalk…preventing free passage of citizens walking by and attempting to enter and exit a store…Your complainant gave several lawful clear and concise orders for the group to disperse and leave the area without compliance.,” reports WROC.com. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sometimes, all it takes is a $7 burrito gift card to get high school seniors to submit their college applications early. “You always have some students who say, ‘I don’t want to go to college,’ but they don’t realize whatever it is in life, they need to go to college for it,” said adviser Martin Copeland at Theodore Roosevelt High ...
