(RNN/CNN) – Former Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky received a sentence of 30 to 60 years in prison Tuesday for his conviction on child sexual…
Trent Richardson, the Browns’ rookie running back, missed practice for personal reasons on Friday. Head coach Pat Shurmur said Richardsons’ situation was cleared by the…
Booze and binge drinking — it’s the stuff hip hop videos are made of, along with a disproportionate number of advertisements African-American youth are exposed…
Raising a child can cost more than a well-meaning parent can ever imagine. Add in the expense of hobbies and sports, and you may end up with…
CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason announced that nine defendants were indicted for failing to pay child support. The nine defendants owe…
Almost a year after his death, the FBI has replaced Osama bin Laden on the Most Wanted List with an alleged child pornographer. Eric J. Toth, a schoolteacher from Washington, is on the list for allegedly possessing child pornography. In 2008, pornographic images were found on a school camera that had been in Toth’s possession. […]
By Ann J. Curley, CNN It’s a stunning statistic: Each day roughly four school busloads of U.S. children — about 165 young kids — are seen in emergency rooms after getting into medications – and each visit is preventable.
The web (including Marvin Olasky’s online column on Monday) is buzzing about a recent New York Times article that expounds on the shameful trend of having children without the benefit of marriage to the children’s father. Read it, but you’ll find nothing new or profound there. The article might evoke anger at the excuse-making (one […]
More than 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or cases referred to law enforcement were Hispanic or African-American, according to an Education Department report that raises questions about whether students of all races are disciplined evenhandedly in America’s schools. Black students are more than three times as likely as their white peers to […]
The zoning laws that are in place aim to keep children in their rightful school seats where no one can take them away. But in scenarios where students end up in the wrong zone either from a parent knowingly using the wrong address or from someone living with another to get their child in their […]
Suspicious of the ‘system,’ many African-American couples are missing an opportunity to help children in need. Darlene and Reginald Knight had one son. They wanted more children. Darlene was unable to conceive. They considered adoption, but knew no one in their African-American community who had adopted. Costs seemed daunting. Then they realized through Bethany Christian […]
Why she is a local hero: Hill opened her home as a safe haven to the kids of South Los Angeles, offering mentoring, tutoring, and gang intervention. After a 40-year career of teaching students, Hill knew she wasn’t finished. She couldn’t stop thinking about all of the kids she’d lost to gang violence. By her […]
