This is just one in a series of racially charged incidents plaguing the American University campus over the past year.
Nick Cannon has played a student on screen, but this time around, it’s the real thing. The turban rocking-host announced via social media over the weekend that he’ began his matriculation at prestigious Howard University in Washington, D.C. https://www.instagram.com/p/BJV-IL7jfjt/ Nick will join the likes of Toni Morrison, Thurgood Marshall, Stokely Carmichael and more as honorable Howard […]
Rickey Smiley is so excited about The Rickey Smiley Foundation‘s college readiness program for high school students. He’s kicking off 30 Days of Giving to help raise money to secure bright futures for our high school students! Listen to the audio player to hear his message, and to find out how you can help it in […]
Nineteen-year-old Fred Barley is homeless, but understands the importance of higher education.
Sixteen-year-old Destyni Tyree was awarded a full scholarship to Potomac State College too.
Since 2010, every single Urban Prep graduate has been accepted to a four-year college or university.
Aisha Tyler, co-host of The Talk recently spoke her mind about black students who choose to attend HBCUs, saying it’s more ‘courageous’ to attend more predominantly white institutions. She says that the working world college graduates enter are more realistically like predominantly white schools, so black students she get used to the racial tensions that occur there sooner. […]
The families of the two boys, now teenagers attending high school in Gilbert, Arizona, say they believe it was a miracle they ended up in the same town.
With all of the negative publicity concerning Black youth in Chicago, it's important to take note of positive stories and this one is truly unique: The Huffington Post reports that Chicago twins, Deprice and Shaprice Hunt, were accepted into a combined 56 colleges and have earned about $1.6 million in scholarships.
Meek mill may be one of the dumbest rappers but hopefully he will get an education as he is reported going back to college! “You want to count on people who’s way smarter than you, people that go to college for these things,” Meek Mill told a group of Overbrook High School student. “I […]
Turns out, Obama was actually given the opportunity to speak at the 17-year-old's ceremony, but he turned it down because he'll be too busy crying.
