Source: Maureen Downey / Atlanta Journal Constitution A Louisiana charter school is in the news this week for its policy of mandating pregnancy tests for female students if there are any suspicions that the girls are pregnant. And then kicks out anyone who is pregnant. Dehli Charter School in Dehli, La., has 600 students in grades [...]
WLBT.com – Jackson, MS Source: AP / Atlanta Journal Constitution JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi couple says the church where they planned to get married turned them away because they are black. Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson say they had set the date and mailed invitations, but the day before their wedding they say they got [...]
Source: Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal Constitution For more than nine months, a former Cobb County woman allegedly kept a big secret from her boyfriend, according to police. She was HIV positive. When her boyfriend found her prescription medication used to treat the virus, he confronted her, according to an arrest warrant obtained by the AJC. Angela [...]
Source: Robert Burns / Atlanta Journal Constitution WASHINGTON — After years of following the paper trail of $51 billion in U.S. taxpayer dollars provided to rebuild a broken Iraq, the U.S. government can say with certainty that too much was wasted. But it can’t say how much. In what it called its final audit report, [...]
Source: Jennifer Brett / Atlanta Journal Constitution Metro Atlanta native Kelly Smith Beaty, herself a former reality show personality, has gone viral with a sharply worded essay skewering how reality shows set in Atlanta portray African Americans. The piece, titled “Will the Real Black People of Atlanta Please Stand Up?,” has claimed prime real estate on theHuffington [...]
Source: Mike Morris / Atlanta Journal-Constitution On the same day of Robert Champion’s hazing death on a Florida A&M University band bus, another band member on the same bus was severely beaten, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Thursday. Requesta Harden, a 21-year-old drummer from Pompano Beach, told authorities investigating Champion’s death that she was riding on Bus C from [...]
Source: Joel Provano / Atlanta Journal-Constitution Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin became the target of Georgia fans’ ire last year after his post-game confrontation with UGA defensive coordinator Todd Grantham. Franklin, in an interview with Nashville radio station 104.5 The Zone, responded to a question about whether it helps a coach in recruiting to have a [...]
Source: Gary Fineout / AP / Atlanta Journal-Constitution TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s top state university official is asking Florida A&M University to keep its famed band off the field. Eleven FAMU band members have been charged with felony hazing in connection to the death of drum major Robert Champion in November. State University System Chancellor [...]
Source: Ernie Suggs and Shelia M. Poole / Atlanta Journal-Constitution The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which has gone through a period of instability at the top for nearly a decade, saw another change in leadership Friday. Isaac Farris, the ninth president of the Atlanta-based organization founded 55 years ago by his uncle, Martin Luther King [...]
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — At least five people will face criminal charges in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major from DeKalb County who died after being hazed aboard a band bus in Orlando last fall, authorities said Tuesday. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings told The Associated Press that multiple defendants [...]
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