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San Gabriel Unified School District/X By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 13, 2024
A California school principal has been placed on administrative leave due to allegations that she held a disturbing active shooter drill at a local elementary school.
Children and parents are upset at what they say was an inappropriate and traumatic series of actions by Washington Elementary School principal Nina Denson during a lockdown drill last Wednesday.
“She proceeded to walk around campus
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X( Formerly Twitter) By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 13, 2024
Clarice Phelps is a trailblazing scientist who gave new meaning to the phrase “having a seat at the table” when she became the first Black woman to help discover a new element on the periodic table. The element is known as Tennessine (Ts), number 117, and is classified as a halogen.
“Taking a seat at the periodic table didn’t happen overnight; it was
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Photo credit: RAPSO Imaging Limited By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 13, 2024
Carnival celebrations in the Caribbean are deeply rooted in the cultural traditions of Africa and were often used as a form of resistance to colonial oppression. Carnival was a powerful method of asserting cultural identity and reclaiming autonomy after chattel slavery was abolished.
Blending African traditions with European influences over time resulted in a unique experience evident in the diverse forms
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Bob Levey / Stringer / Getty Images By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 13, 2024
In the 1960s, Ed Dwight was set to become the first Black astronaut. But this didn’t come to pass, most likely due to racism and the loss of his champion after President Kennedy was assassinated. We wouldn’t have the first Black man flying in space until two decades later in 1983 when Guion Bluford went up with
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Carlos Moore, Facebook By Melissa Noel ·Updated February 12, 2024
A Black child who was arrested in Mississippi for public urination has had the case against him dismissed, according to the family’s attorney.
Quantavious Eason, who was 10 at the time, was arrested for urinating in the Senatobia Courthouse parking area in August 2023. The incident occurred while Quantavious was waiting for his mother, LaTonya Eason, at the courthouse, where there was reportedly
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 12, 2024
The Super Bowl aka Usher concert might be over, but we’re all still talking about Jeremiah Fennell. The precocious 11-year-old scored one-on-one time with the likes of Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes,
The post Black Boy Joy! Meet The 11-Year-Old NFL Reporter Who Won Vegas And The World Over With His Super Bowl 58 Coverage appeared first on Essence.
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AUSTIN, TEXAS – MAY 27: Chef Ashleigh Shanti attends ‘Al Fuego’ during the Hot Luck Live Food & Music Festival at Wild Onion Ranch on May 27, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images) By Malaika Jabali ·Updated February 9, 2024
A renowned chef in Asheville, North Carolina says that vandals left racist messages on her newly opened restaurant…all within the first week of Black History Month.
As Asheville’s local outlet
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 9, 2024
I can remember begging my Mom as a child for a new toy, imploring that she simply “had to get it for me.” Her response: “I don’t have to do nothing but stay Black and die.”
Years later, I would learn that she did not in fact come up with this pithy turn of phrase. It has been around for decades with many scholars attributing
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By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated February 9, 2024
On February 1, Duvan Robert Tomas Perez’s mother Edilma Perez Ramirez filed a lawsuit over her son’s “‘gruesome’ death” after he died while working at a meat processing plant last July.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has already declared Mar-Jac Poultry, the operator of the Mississippi plant, to be at fault. The Georgia-based poultry company “was cited with 17 violations after investigators found