A massive federal indictment was announced on Tuesday, charging dozens of parents, coaches and college prep executives of carrying out a national conspiracy to get students into prestigious colleges and schools. Among the celebrities, actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin along with coaches from Yale, Stanford, Texas, USC, Wake Forest and Georgetown among others. The […]

Yara Shahidi has got her pick of schools to attend this fall! As college acceptance season begins to wind down, many high school seniors are still waiting to find out which school they got into. The Black-ish star, however, doesn’t have to wonder because she got into all the schools she applied for. Yara, who […]

The four brothers are living out their collegiate dreams with most prestigious universities in the country.

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Marvel Comics character Riri Williams, an African-American woman superhero, was featured in MIT’s admissions video.

The "black-ish" star plans on double-majoring in African-American studies and sociology.

Plus, University of Texas-San Antonio offering academic course on Beyoncé's "Lemonade" and Trayvon Martin's parents will release new memoir about their son's death in Jan. 2017.

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Since 2010, every single Urban Prep graduate has been accepted to a four-year college or university.

Michelle Obama delivered the final commencement speech of her tenure as First Lady Friday at City College of New York in Harlem, addressing more than 3,000 members of the class of 2016 at the 169-year-old public college. During the speech, which included a dig at Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and a brief talk about the significance […]

What may not have been a traditional graduation speech has now captured the heart and souls of many.

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Watch Roland Martin, Rep. G.K. Butterfield, Rev. William Barber, Edith Bartley, and the NewsOne Now panel discuss the battle against SB 873 in the video clip above.