The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem New York has rounded a decade with 100% of the students being accepted to college. The flagship East Harlem school was opened in 1996 and follows an all-girls public education model.
Maxine Waters is still popular in her district. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Congressional ethics charges have tarnished Maxine Waters’ reputation in Washington. But in the struggling, mostly Hispanic and black neighborhoods she represents, residents still hold the 10-term Democratic congresswoman in high esteem.
A day after 30,000 people unexpectedly turned out in hopes of picking up public housing applications, the city of East Point in Georgia is hoping it won’t see a repeat crush when it begins accepting those applications Thursday morning.
A woman by the name of Jenny has had enough working for her former company. She decided to quit her job wish a BANG! She expressed how she felt by emailing these photos to the entire office, about 20 employees we’re told. Check it out at http://www.vladtv.com/blog/26370/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board–emails-entire-office-33-photos
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal judge who overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban ruled Thursday that gay marriages can resume starting Aug. 18.
Bernard Keith Howell admitted to having sex with the dead body found in his trunk when he was arrested, but claims that he was not the one who killed the victim.
Los Angeles police are looking for a man they say tied up and raped two women from Skid Row in the past two weeks.
Much like the achievement gap in K-12 schooling, higher education is plagued by its own gap—with respect to minority graduation rates. Nationwide, 60 percent of white students earn a degree within six years on a college campus, compared to only 40 percent of African-Americans and 49 percent of Latinos.
Charles W. Bowser, 79, a tenacious advocate of racial fairness and an influential civic leader whose two campaigns for Philadelphia mayor inspired a generation of African American political leaders, died Monday from complications of Alzheimer’s disease at HCR Manor Care in King of Prussia.
Broadband adoption in the home is slowing in the U.S. That’s what the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is saying in a fascinating report that is just out.
NEW YORK – Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez has been suspended for two days by the team after he was charged with assaulting his father-in-law at a Citi Field family lounge following a game.
Summoned back from summer break, the House on Tuesday pushed through an emergency $26 billion jobs bill that Democrats said would save 300,000 teachers, police and others from election-year layoffs. President Barack Obama immediately signed it into law. Lawmakers streamed back to Washington for a one-day session as Democrats declared a need to act before […]
