Scruggs receives community service award
Maria L. Scruggs received the Literacy Festival Community Service Award from the Friends…
Education
I am the dream!
Maximo Elementary School prepared a dramatic Black History Month program for their…
Virtual book drive will supply books for children in need
Goodwill’s BookWorks program continues to bring books and the love of reading to…
Drive-thru Literacy Festival today
The 10th annual Literacy Festival will be a drive-thru event tomorrow, March 19, from 9-2…
SailFuture curriculum teaches real-world lessons
The SailFuture Academy, a comprehensive child welfare agency and private school based in…
Hey school board: We deserve respect
‘It is an insult to our community to treat us with such disdain and disrespect. Why…
Helios Education Foundation invests in SPC to enhance FAAME
The Florida African American Male Experience initiative will support students along…
Superintendent search update
The hunt for a new Pinellas County Superintendent of Schools is on. Please take part in…
Blurbs from Youth Farm scholars
Read the musings of Youth Farm participants below. The Youth Farm aims to empower the…
Diversity and inclusion programs expand through support from out-of-state donations and grants
Tom and Bharti Kirchner gave $52,000 to support Call Me MISTER after reading an online…
Teaching by faith
“I understand that I am a vessel for Christ because this is the place where he has…
Is Pinellas County School System ready for a Black or Hispanic superintendent?
School board members will decide on who the next superintendent will be, and to these…
Micah Poole is all in!
Newly ordained assistant pastor and educator Micah Poole is ready to make a difference in…
bell hooks: Pathbreaker, humanitarian, author, leader
Born Gloria Jean Watkins Sept. 25, 1952, in Hopkinsville, Ky., bell hooks went on to…
Honoring the past and present work of HBCU students who are leading the fight to obtain civil rights
HBCUs opened in churches across the nation in the late 1800s to educate newly freed Black…
The start and future of Cultured Books
At last month’s Social Venture Partners Tampa Bay Fast Pitch competition, Lorielle J.…
What can we do from crisis to hope: How COVID-19 has critically affected our Black children
Among children who lost a parent to COVID-19, 20 percent were Black children, which means…
USF Brewing Arts program joins forces with Yuengling to enhance diversity in the brewing industry
The $5,000 Diversity in Brewing Scholarship seeks to create new opportunities for the…