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Pharrell Williams is giving back to his home state of Virginia by opening a private school for low-income families. According to the Associated Press, the school will be tuition-free for at least the first year with costs covered by philanthropic support. The first school will open in Ghent, which is …

Reuters – New York is lifting all state-mandated coronavirus restrictions after reporting that 70% of the state’s adults have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday. “It is an important milestone, and we’re going to keep pushing to do more,” Cuomo told a …

Photo: Alex_Alekseev (Shutterstock) Five officers with the Savannah Police Department were fired on Monday after a man died while in their custody. The Associated Press reports that on April 3, 60-year-old William Harvey was found dead in an interview room at police headquarters. Harvey was being questioned in connection with …

Editor’s Note: Every week, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer have taken questions from parents about their kids’ education. This is the last article in the “Homeroom” series. Dear Abby and Brian, This year has been really hard emotionally, but now that a much-needed summer break is here, I’m starting to …

Juneteenth is officially a state holiday in Louisiana. On Thursday (June 10), Gov. John Bel Edwards signed House Bill 554 into law, making June 19th a holiday. On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned the Civil War had ended, and that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed them …

As Issa Rae prepared to film the final episode ever of Insecure, the emotions were overflowing on set. The mascara started streaking when Prentice Penny, the show’s head writer and executive producer, took a stroll down memory lane, posting photos and videos of his favorite behind-the-scenes moments working on the …

Investigators are still unpacking a horrifying alleged murder attempt by a 24-year-old mother of two who hurled her children out of a second-story window before jumping out herself in Brooklyn, New York on Saturday. According to police, around 11a.m., Dejhanay Jarrell was in her apartment on Rockaway Parkway in the …

Love & Hip Hop stars Mimi Faust and Tamera “Ty” Young called off their engagement last year, and now Faust is opening up on what happened.  Appearing as a guest on Get Into It With Tami Roman, Faust shared that turning point was the  engagement because it wasn’t something she …

Image: Facebook I hate Mondays as much as everybody else, but today, in particular, isn’t quite so bad since it means that we’re less than 24 hours away from the debut of Facebook Watch’s Simone vs. Herself. In February, I told you alllllllllll about this latest installment in the Emmy-nominated …