Last week, Madison High School principal Carlotta Brown had everyone up in arms over a dress code she instituted for parents. The policy, which was posted on the Madison High School website called for both male and female parents to dress not as if they just rolled out of bed when they step inside the […]

You’ve heard of a dress code for students. Now parents of James Madison High School are finding out there’s a dress code for them as well. The school will turn away parents if they show up at the school wearing bonnets, pajamas, hair rollers or leggings, among other clothing items. The notice was issued via […]

Last April, Amy Joyner-Francis was beaten to death after being jumped by a group of girls at her Wilmington high school.

A group of Missouri high school students, mostly rocking cowboy hats, turned their backs and displayed a Donald Trump sign as the starting roster for a mostly Black basketball team was announced.

The president of the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP is calling for a federal hate crime investigation into an incident in which he claims a noose was placed around the neck of a Black high school football player.

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Education is one of the topics that must be addressed by both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, because it is what many consider to be the “great equalizer” in America. As many of NewsOne Now’s viewers know, Roland Martin and the University of Phoenix are committed to promoting initiatives that further academic achievement. Martin caught […]

The two youngest victims of the massacre were only teenagers with bright futures ahead of them.

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The victim, who has not yet been identified as police, was jumped in the bathroom around 8:15 a.m. Thursday. She was found in critical condition and rushed to the A.I DuPont Hospital for Children by helicopter. A short time later, she died from her injuries.

The incident occurred Saturday around 1 p.m. when police responded to a call that Dyzhawn Perkins, 19, was behaving erratically at a local grocery store and later attacked an elderly couple who lived nearby, WTVR reports. When two Buckingham County police officers later found Perkins at a nearby home, he reportedly jumped through a plate-glass window and allegedly attacked one of the officers.