When Robin Hall’s parents first handed him an application for the Black Male Leadership Development Institute last year, his reaction was thanks, but no thanks. He had only recently moved to Penn Hills and was adjusting to his new high school and a new blended family of dad, stepmom, stepsister and his stepsister’s daughter. The [...]

Three students of Makerere University of Uganda have invented a pregnancy scan machine that has already won an award, Ventures Africa has reported. Aaron Tushabe, Joshua Okello and Josiah Kavuma, all sophomores of the University’s College of Computing and Information Technology (CIT), invented WinSenga, a hand-held device that can scan a pregnant woman’s womb to [...]

Conya Doss may be the hippest, soul-singin’ mother climbing her way to the top of the music industry right now. Her recent single, “Don’t Change,” from her sixth album “Pocketful Of Purpose,” just dropped a few weeks ago. And, with a graduate degree in education, she’s also among the smartest performers rocking the stage when [...]

“No field impacts a young person’s life like education does,” says newly named Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, S. Dallas Dance, Ph.D., on why learning is so important to him. Currently chief officer of over 200,000 students in Houston Public Middle Schools, Dance will officially take over as superintendent July 1, an amazing feat [...]