By Alysha Conner | LA Wave Newspapers LOS ANGELES — With the start of a new school year still more than a month away for most local students, many youngsters have mixed feelings about returning to classes for more reasons…
Category: Education
UCLA Study Reveals Educational and Social Challenges Affecting Black Youth in LA County
By Alysha Conner | LA Black Post | LA Watts Times African-American students in Los Angeles County are currently facing a dual-threat of inadequate educational opportunities and support. It has been proven that social and environmental factors have also placed…
Blended Designs Mom-preneur, Casey Kelley, Creates Motivational School Gear for Black Students
By Alysha Conner Blended Designs, LLC is the leading Black-owned family business to provide school gear that produces positive images and messages for students in the African-American community. Casey and Harvey Kelley, Blended Designs CEOs, launched their 1954® initiative in 2017…
Meet Wedbush’s Youngest Financial Wizards
By Alysha Conner | Downtown Weekly LA Assistant professor at California State University Los Angeles (Cal State LA), Dr. Marla Parker, and lecturer at Cal State LA, Dr. Melvin Armstrong Jr., teamed up together to establish an after school program…
Atlanta mother releases children’s book on how to cope with cancer
By Alysha Conner | Black Press USA Photo provided by Ashley Banks Ashley Banks recently published her first children’s book, I Love You Forever, On March 31st in hopes of providing insight on how to cope with cancer through a child’s…
Songtrust teaches key industry lessons at Georgia State
By Alysha Conner | The Atlanta Voice Songtrust Atlanta hosted its latest Music Publishing Workshop at Georgia State University’s downtown campus in their new media center on for two hours on March 28th. Since its expansion to the Atlanta region,…
A freshman becomes an advocate for inclusion at her college campus
By Alysha Conner | The Atlanta Voice Makayla Graham is a 19-year-old Atlanta, GA native and freshman at Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) in Americus. She recently established the university’s first-ever Black Student Union (BSU). GSW was founded in 1906,…
Legacy of the Atlanta Student Movement
By Alysha Conner | The Atlanta Voice At the former site of Yates and Milton Drug Store, presently known as the Clark Atlanta University student center, where the initial meeting of the Atlanta Student Movement took place, a marker has…
Stars Janelle Monae, Angela Rye encourage AUC students to vote
By Alysha Conner | #ELECTION2018 | The Atlanta Voice Rising political and social media stars Janelle Monae and Angela Rye electrified a packed house at the When We All Vote and The Root-hosted voter registration rally exclusively for students, faculty,…