Written By Lexx Thornton A bill currently moving through the Florida House (HB 127) seeks to make cursive handwriting mandatory for public elementary school students from grades two through five. If passed, the bill would require students to be actively taught cursive writing and, critically, would mandate that they be tested for proficiency by the
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By Barnett Wright | The Birmingham Times About a year ago Miles College President Bobbie Knight began conversations with a global company that would do something “amazing” for students, faculty and the community in Alabama, she said. Those talks weren’t with just any company. Knight met with NVIDIA Corporation, which this month became the first publicly traded
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By Alexandra Marquez President Donald Trump this weekend floated directly paying Americans for their health care costs and giving out $2,000 dividends from tariff revenue, ideas that administration officials later said were not formal proposals being sent to the Senate. In one Truth Social post on Saturday, the president wrote, “I am recommending to Senate Republicans that
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In position to avenge a loss a year ago to an HBCU rival as well as Southwestern Athletic Conference foe, Grambling and Bethune-Cookman engaged in more than a football rivalry contest Saturday afternoon inside Grambling’s Eddie G. Robinson Memorial Stadium. After Grambling carried a 24-20 lead from halftime into the opening moments before the start
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By Frank Thorp V, Sahil Kapur and Brennan Leach Senators struck an agreement Sunday, projecting confidence that it will be sufficient to end the lengthy U.S. government shutdown, three sources with direct knowledge of the details told NBC News. The agreement, reached by a group of Democrats who teamed up with Republicans, cleared the first hurdle on a vote
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By Alexandra Marquez The U.S. Department of Agriculture said states that issued full November SNAP benefits to recipients following a court decision should “immediately undo” the distributions and that failure to comply could result in the cancellation of future federal funds. “To the extent States sent full SNAP payment files for November 2025, this was unauthorized.
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Written By: Dan Mangan The Trump administration asked a federal appeals court to issue an emergency block on a judge’s order that it pay 42 million Americans their full SNAP benefits for November by Friday as the federal government shutdown persists. The administration requested that the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals allow it to
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Written By Lexx Thornton Clark Atlanta University is celebrating a historic political victory: current student Jayden Williams, 22, has been elected the youngest mayor in the history of Stockbridge, Georgia. Williams, who is currently earning his political science degree, unseated incumbent Mayor Anthony Ford in a major local upset. His victory also marks him as
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Written By Lexx Thornton Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry, 56, has stepped forward to combat food insecurity resulting from the ongoing government shutdown, which is now the longest in U.S. history. Perry has donated nearly $1.4 million to several organizations to support families facing the loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The need
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The 10th annual Black Enterprise BE Smart Hackathon, which includes coding competition and tech job recruitment, is in Charlotte through Nov. 8. Students from 43 historically Black colleges will gather in Charlotte for coding competition and tech job recruitment. The 10th annual Black Enterprise BE Smart Hackathon will bring together 310 students from across the
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