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Two-thirds’ of the Hip-Hop group Little Brother are all set to recognized for their contributions to the culture at North Carolina Central University’s second annual Forty Under Forty Awards Gala.

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Kendrick Lamar’s seminal album good kid, m.A.A.d city continues to bask in the ambiance always reserved for classic compositions in the realm of Hip-Hop.

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Unlike 50 Cent, there was no drama surrounding family attendance for the high school graduation of one of rap music’s legendary offspring.

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Public schools in Northern California’s Bay Area are getting a big financial push from Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan. The couple has committed to donating $120 million by way of their Startup Eduction fund, the twosome announced early Friday (May 30).

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An 18-year-old honor student whose grade point average actually exceeds 4.0 is seeing his dreams of becoming valedictorian crushes because of a policy his school has yet to actually prove exists.

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Budding Hip-Hop star Diggy Simmons is barely removed from high school himself, but he is still not above recognizing the academic achievements of students who deserved it.

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Far too often, young Black boys and men in this country are featured in the news for all the wrong reasons. Flipping the tables on that occurrence is Long Island teen Kwasi Enin, who has been accepted by all eight of the Ivy League schools.

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Jemarley McFarlane had to overcome tough odds growing up in New York.  After his parents split apart, McFarlane found himself the product of a single parent home along with his sister. Now 22, the college senior is heading to South Korea for a yearlong teaching fellowship as a Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant recipient.

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The Wu-Tang Clan referred to member GZA as the crew’s de facto genius for a reason. The veteran rapper and science junkie combined his love of music and education recently at New York’s Park East High School, assisting the ninth graders in writing educational rhymes. 

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In a preview for his latest interview for Current TV’s , The Gavin Newsom Show, host Gavin Newsom caught up with Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am at the Clinton Global Initiative to discuss his thoughts on the current state of the US education system. In the video Will.i.am discusses the observations he has made […]

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With President Obama proposing a $1 billion plan to aid math and science teachers, one Atlanta school teacher is accused of not being committed to helping students learn. Shayla Smith, a fifth grade math teacher at Dobbs Elementary School in Atlanta, faced a three-person tribunal investigating claims that she doctored Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT). The […]

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GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum must have forgotten his multiple degrees and ambitious educational career after addressing a Tea Party forum in Michigan ahead of Tuesday’s primaries. During the gathering, the former senator of Pennsylvania referred to Barack Obama as a snob because of the President’s wish that every American be afforded the opportunity to […]