https://hunewsservice.com Your Neighborhood. Your Nation. Your News! Mon, 03 Mar 2025 03:15:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://hunewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cropped-407787_352128264798897_1461219382_n-1-32x32.jpg https://hunewsservice.com 32 32 https://hunewsservice.com/news/educators-reject-trump-other-proposals-for-them-to-go-armed/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:44:50 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/educators-reject-trump-other-proposals-for-them-to-go-armed/ Gun Violence Imani Foxx a first-grade teacher at at Kipp Leadership Primary School, said she can't envision bringing a gun into her classroom. “Gun violence is a big enough issue in New Orleans. The last place kids need to come and see a gun is in their classroom.” WASHINGTON — Imani Foxx walks into her first-grade classroom in New Orleans every day excited to teach her students the lesson of the day. Foxx, who teaches at Kipp Leadership Primary School, said she loves thinking of new ways to engage her pupils.  She incorporates lots of different things into her lessons, pictures, songs,]]> https://hunewsservice.com/multimedia/video/white-house-140th-annual-easter-egg-roll/ Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:56:57 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/white-house-140th-annual-easter-egg-roll/ First Lady Melania Trump hosted this year’s 140th annual Easter Egg Roll. It is the largest event held at the White House. Festivities included a greeting from President Trump, coloring stations, hard-boiled egg pops, the bunny hop stage, the traditional rolling of the eggs and more. Howard University News Vision Reporter Adrienne Perkins was on the scene to document all of the fun.  ]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/public-schools-fail-to-teach-crucial-part-of-american-history/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 10:19:16 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/public-schools-fail-to-teach-crucial-part-of-american-history/ Slaves on a plantation pose with their slavemaster, but only 8 percent of present-day high school seniors could identify slavery as a central cause of the Civil War, according to Teaching Hard History, a study released for Black History Month, by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Courtesy photo. WASHINGTON –Howard University Professor Gregory Carr knew many Americans, including African Americans, didn't know enough about slavery, its origins and its impact on the U.S. and the world.  Still, even Carr, chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, was surprised at the results of a study on what children in the nation's schools know]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/why-public-school-teachers-administrators-cheat/ Sun, 11 Feb 2018 23:38:24 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/why-public-school-teachers-administrators-cheat/ Cheating Scandals Across Nation Fueled by Faulty Accountability Systems Photo by Lorie Shuall: Antwan Wilson, Chancellor of D.C. Public School, has been embroiled in scandal after it was revealed widespread cheating by teachers and administers that allowed more than one of every threee seniors to graduate with a diploma they had not earned. WASHINGTON – The public schools in the nation’s capital recently reported that the graduation rate for 2017 was the highest in the school system’s history.  According to school officials, about 73 percent of Washington public schools’ students graduated on time, another record high for a school system that]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/witness-survivor-of-atlanta-school-cheating-scandal/ Sun, 11 Feb 2018 22:46:49 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/witness-survivor-of-atlanta-school-cheating-scandal/ https://hunewsservice.com/news/remembering-victims-of-gun-violence/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 16:45:31 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/remembering-victims-of-gun-violence/ Group Displays 2000 crosses Near White House on Inauguration Anniversary WASHINGTON — One by one people stopped and stared.  The scores of passersby gazed at the thousands of crosses spread across the ground not far from the White House and soaked in the photographs of the faces that had been carefully attached to each. They were mothers, fathers, daughters, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, and cousins. They were black, white, Latino, young and old.  Some had been killed even after living just a fraction of their lives. These were crosses, somber memorials for dead, for Anthony Irving, Darrius Johnson, Chanelle Rosebear, Myah]]> https://hunewsservice.com/news/crosses-at-white-house-commemorate-the-dead/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 14:20:58 +0000 http://hunewsservice.com/uncategorized/crosses-at-white-house-commemorate-the-dead/ WASHINGTON –  Gone, but never forgotten, 2,000 crosses made bystanders feel the lives of those who fell victim to gun violence. One by one people would stop, stare, and ask questions about the uniquely handmade crosses lying on the ground of The Ellipse in Washington, D.C. They remembered the lives of daughters, mothers, brothers and sisters, all who were once able to freely walk the Earth just as they were doing on this sunny Saturday afternoon. Crosses for Losses, the organization behind the demonstration, wanted each cross to put a face to a name, ensuring that these lives were not]]>