Concussions

By Stephanie Claytor
There is a lot of talk about concussion injuries in football lately. Since I did my story, the NFL has made some new rules. According to the NFL website, Commissioner Roger Goodell issued a memo to 32 teams, barring players who sustain a concussion from returning to play the same day if they display symptoms.  These [...]

Why we Remember Pan Am Flight 103

By Stephanie Claytor
Although we are 21 years apart, and literally worlds apart, Kesha Weedon and I are spiritually connected. Both slave descendants, we leaned on our religion and faith to succeed beyond what our parents and grandparents ever imagined. Kesha and I both got to study abroad, and live an experience that is quite unheard of in our [...]

Carmelo Anthony visits Syracuse to show off basketball court

By Stephanie Claytor
Syracuse, New York—Denver Nuggets basketball player and former Syracuse University star Carmelo Anthony visited Syracuse’s southside on Monday to show off a new basketball court in Wilson Park. Anthony
sponsored the refurbishment of the court through the Courts for Kids program.
Anthony was supposed to watch young players compete in a basketball tournament on the new court. But, [...]

LeBron James talks about challenges he faced in life

—Tampa, Florida
By Stephanie Claytor
Americas finest group of journalists gathered today to listen to the NBA’s MVP LeBron James talk about the documentary, “More Than A Game”.
As James arrived, he greeted the National Association of Black Journalists board members and signed basketballs. They seemed delighted to meet him, and even took pictures. [...]

President Clinton becomes a Sigma

New Orleans, LA —- Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., in session, at its 95th Anniversary Conclave in New Orleans, LA, voted to induct the Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America, as an honorary member of the organization. Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity’s International President Paul L. Griffin, Jr. commented [...]

We will always miss you Michael

It’s 6:15 pm and news has spread that Michael Jackson has passed away. I’m still in the newsroom, getting ready to leave. Everyone is running around frantic, debating if they should broadcast the news because TMZ..a celebrity gossip blog..seems to be the only one confirming it.
So it didn’t hit me because [...]

Twin heads off to Boarding School

By Stephanie Claytor
Cleveland Heights——Most 14 -year- olds are just happy to be entering high school, a stepping stone in life that involves more freedom, new friends and Friday night football games. But, Alexis Crayton, of Cleveland Heights, chose a different route.
Crayton is headed to Dana Hall, a boarding school in Wellsley, Massachusetts. And she is [...]

Obama goes back to Buchenwald- a site of terror

President Obama toured Buchenwald with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, in effort to remember the lives of so many who died at the hands of a destructive sick mankind as well as to honor the courage and resistance of those who survived.
“We reflect on the human capacity [...]

Secretary of Education Elect Arne Duncan plans to harvest the Obama Effect in Education

By: Stephanie Claytor
During the Senate Confirmation Hearing for the position of the U.S Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, the former CEO of Chicago Public schools, pledged to spread Obama’s example of educational excellence to the nation by rewarding and locating better teachers for the nation’s schools, lowering the high school dropout rate, creating more Early [...]

HBO and Winfrey’s production company reaches deal

Yahoo reports that Oprah Winfrey is ending a long-term relationship with ABC by taking her production company to HBO for a three-year deal to make movies, documentaries and TV series.

Kate Forte, head of Harpo Films, said Tuesday that Winfrey’s company wanted to make a more eclectic mix of programming than was available on broadcast TV, working [...]