Cleveland Metropolitan School District Posted May 13th 2013   ERIC GORDON CEO CMSD AND DAVID QUOLKE PRESIDENT CLEVELAND TEACHERS UNION   Metropolitan Schoof District have reached a Tentative Agreement. ‘Ve fuel st.rongly that the new contract will help transform Cleveland s schools and will build on a culture of collaboration that began last year when [...]

BeaconJournal.com By Carol Biliczky, Beacon Journal Staff Writer  Posted May 12th 2013 (PHOTO: JULIA LOEB AND KATHY SCHMIKO , NATHANIUEL JOHNSON OPERATES ROBOT AT EAST TECH HIGH SCHOOL NEW TECH)   Right now, 85 Akron high school students are taking Stark State College courses. For free. At their regular high school. And they are far [...]

Associated Press By Josh Lederman Posted May 7th 2013   COLUMBUS, Ohio — A year to the day after kicking off his victorious re-election campaign on this college campus, President Barack Obama returned to Ohio State University and told graduates that only through vigorous participation in their democracy can they right an ill-functioning government and [...]

YourBlackWorld.net Posted May 4th 2013     Public schools in urban communities with a large population of African-Americans are being shut down by the masses. Black history month is slowly but surely becoming a thing of the past in public schools. In fact, most teachers focus on the same iconic figures each year (e.g. Dr. [...]

Associated Press Posted April 23rd 2013   COLUMBUS: Attorney General Mike DeWine says his office has awarded a $4.35 million grant to the Ohio Alliance of Boys & Girls Clubs. The funds come from part of a national mortgage settlement reached last year by attorneys general around the country. When DeWine announced the award he [...]

BeaconJournal.com By Doug Livingston, Education Writer Posted April 18th 2013   The University of Akron kicked off its annual Black Male Summit last week by welcoming 150 Akron high school students to take a tour of the campus and explore academia at the next level during the two-day event. Some of the Akron students would [...]

BlackLikeMoi.com Posted April 17th 2013   Eighty-two years ago, all-white juries in Alabama imposed the death sentence on eight black teenagers falsely accused of raping two white women, setting the stage for a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Now, the Scottsboro boys are poised to be pardoned. Jeremy King, a spokesman for Alabama Governor Robert [...]

YourBlackWorld.net By Yvette Carnell Posted April 14th 2013 During an episode of The Rachel Maddow show, Sen. Rand Paul made it clear that he didn’t fully support the Civil Rights Act, but now that Paul’s decided to run for president, he’s forgotten all about that, and he thinks you should too. Here’s what Sen. Rand [...]

YourBlackWorld.net Posted April 11th 2013   Margaret Thatcher’s death set off a flurry of tributes from around the world, but none from South Africa. That’s because Thatcher, who died on Monday, was a supporter of apartheid, even going to far to call Mandela and those fighting against apartheid “terrorists.” “Anyone who thinks it is going [...]

Associated Press Posted April 11th 2013 (PHOTO: SHENA HARDIN WENT ON SIDEWALK TO PASS SCHOOL BUS DAILY)   ARTIS HUGHES RTA UPPERCUT BUS DRIVER CLEVELAND: Proposed new city ordinances in Cleveland would crack down on motorists passing school buses and people assaulting bus or train drivers. The Plain Dealer newspaper reports that if the ordinance [...]