BlackTalentNews.com
Posted July 11th 2010
Call­ing all girls, call­ing all girls! The Lit­tle Miss African Amer­i­can Schol­ar­ship Pageant is now except­ing nation­wide sub­mis­sions as it read­ies for its 17th year as one of the longest run­ning com­pe­ti­tions for intel­li­gent young women aged 6–12. The orig­i­nal cre­ation of actress/ chore­o­g­ra­pher Lisa Ruf­fin, The Lit­tle [...]

Insidemovies.moviefone.com
By Marina Zogbi
Posted May 16th 2010
If there were a hierarchy of modern renaissance women, Queen Latifah would be right at the top. Actor, rapper, singer, film and music producer, Cover Girl spokeswoman and plus-size role model, the former Dana Elaine Owens — and Newark, New Jersey, native — can seemingly do [...]

Kitchendaily.com
By Sandy Gluck
Posted April 4th 2010
Got a few too many leftover Easter eggs on hand? The good news is that, if left in their shells, hard-boiled eggs will keep in the fridge for up to a week. But with the 12 hard-boiled egg recipe ideas here, they’ll likely disappear a lot faster [...]

Aolhealth.com
By Jordan Lite
Posted March 15th

She’s fed up. An Illinois teacher is eating school lunches for a year in solidarity with students she believes aren’t offered healthy options in the cafeteria.
Blogging anonymously at fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com, the instructor has already suffered a few bellyaches in the name of her endeavor. She began eating — and [...]

Sky.news.com
Gregor Hunter, Sky News Online
Posted March 7th 2010
Two nine year olds known as the Wonder Twins for their record-beating exam results are set to become the youngest pupils admitted to a British secondary school.
Paula and Peter Imafidon, from Waltham Forest, London, amazed parents and teachers when they passed an A-level maths exam [...]

Newsone.com
By Casey Gane-McCalla
Posted March 7th 2010
Recently, President Barack Obama pledged his efforts as well as $900 million to stop the national high school drop out crisis. The efforts of one leader and money are not enough to stop the problem, but it is a start.
The current education system offers no skills or [...]

BlackVoices.com
By Boyce Watkins, PhD
Posted January 20th 2010
At thirteen years of age, Stephen Stafford is causing quite a stir at Morehouse College. Stafford has a triple major in pre-med, math and computer science. Though he loves playing video games and playing his drum set, he is no typical teenager.
“I’ve never taught a student as young [...]

By Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer
December 22, 2009, 8:15AM
Somehow, I managed to get through my entire high school career before I found out that the term “oral sex” described a specific sex act, not a type of discussion.
Sad (and perhaps a bit funny) but true.
But oral sex, the act, is far from funny when you [...]

By Sabrina Eaton, The Plain Dealer
December 15, 2009, 6:51PM
Warrensville Heights, Ohio — Democratic Rep. Marcia Fudge wants to officially designate each September as “National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month.”
She planned to kick off a congressional effort to accomplish that goal today at a Washington, D.C., charity event hosted by Washington Redskins linebacker London Fletcher, a Cleveland native who played [...]