A mishap on a New Jersey school bus caused 7-year-old Chisano Mutts to be dragged for a block clinging for life.

A six-year-old girl who witnessed her mother’s murder has written a letter to Sasha and Malia Obama seeking help for her father.

Bianca Perez, who lives in New York wrote the girls “to see if you can ask your daddy to help me and my daddy,” according to the letter.

From the New York Daily News

Bianca wrote the letter with the help of her father, Joseph Perez, 31, last week. They sent the letter over the weekend.

Her mother, Christina Scarabaggio, 27, was shot to death by an abusive boyfriend in September 2007 as she tried to shield Bianca, then 4, in front of their Bay Ridge home.

Christopher Flynn, 27, shot Scarabaggio twice in the back and once in the face before turning his .380-caliber handgun on himself.

Bianca has been living with her father on Staten Island ever since. Like many New Yorkers, he has fallen on hard times.

Arshon Baker, 5, is dead because he wanted his mother’s attention. Now Angel Glass faces murder and abuse charges, according to Lt. Thomas Stacho, of the Cleveland Police Department.

From Cleveland.com

Police interviewed Glass on Friday night after Arshon was rushed to MetroHealth from their house in the 6600 block of Ovington Road, Stacho said.

“She said she was in her apartment doing another woman’s hair when the boy pulled on her dress to get her attention,” Stacho said. “She ordered him to stand in the corner. After a few minutes, he came out of the corner, so she said she took a brush and beat him on his hands.

“When that didn’t work, she took a braided belt and hit him with it,” Stacho said. “She said the boy ran away and she grabbed him and continued to beat him.”

Glass took her son to the hospital after being hit on the head after losing responsiveness.

Congratulations to mother, child and grandmother who share a very special bond.

R&B star Ne-Yo’s newest song, “Never Knew I Needed,” will be the lead single for Disney’s first-ever animated film featuring a Black princess.

The movie is called “The Princess and the Frog” and it debuts Dec. 11. The movie features the voices of Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard and Anika Noni Rose, who plays Tiana, the princess.

De’Coria Brown, a 14-year-old middle school student is now facing felony charges after a fight in school in which she allegedly assaulted a student, teachers and a school resource officer. But did she have to be tazered? You make the call.

Admitting his proposal is not popular with his own daughters, President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, believes it is time to extend the length of the school day as well as weekend and summer classes.

“Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.

Duncan said children from other industrialized nations attend school 25-30 percent longer than American students. He believes the more time American kids spend in the classroom the more information they will learn.

So what do you think? Should school be extended?

A videotape of school children singing a song about President Barack Obama is causing an uproar amongst conservatives bloggers and other media outlets.

The tape, which can be seen here is of a Black History Month program featuring author and speaker Charisse Carney-Nunes who visited the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, New Jersey. Nunes is the author of the highly-successful children book “I Am Barack Obama.”

Someone recently posted the tape online and several well-known conservative bloggers said this is proof of an organized effort to teach school kids to praise and worship Obama.

The Burlington Township School District released a statement stating that the activity was set to “honor the contributions of African Americans to our country.”

Carney-Nunes, a graduate of Lincoln University and law school classmate of Obama, has yet to comment.

Considering Obama is the first African-American President of the United States, is it out of place to mention him during Black History Month?  Would you be angry if your child sang the song, or is this whole thing silly?  Share your thoughts.

Troy Dale West, Jr. the man accused of beating a woman in front of her seven-year-old child at a a suburban Atlanta Cracker Barrel restaurant was indicted on federal charges Wednesday afternoon.

He is charged with e count of aggravated assault, two counts of battery, two counts of disorderly conduct, false imprisonment and cruelty to children, according to a report on CNN.com.

Georgia police officials along with the FBI are investigating whether the incident was racially motivated as the victim, allege that West, 47, yelled racial slurs at his victim, 35-year-old Army Reservist Tashawnea Hill, who is Black.

The Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission has ruled that racial discrimination, not safety concerns , as the reason a group of Black and Latino youth were not allowed to return to a suburban Philadelphia swim club.

Last June, children and staff from Creative Steps, Inc. day camp arrived at the The Valley Club in Huntingdon Valley, PA only to have their money be refunded and asked to leave.

According to the New York Daily News, Valley Club officials said the size of the group overwhelmed lifeguards and club staff. There were 67 children as part of the group.

In the Commission’s report they sited several emails between Valley Club staff and management mentioned race. In addition a girl told investigators that she heard a woman ask, “what are all these black kids doing here? I am scared they might do something to my child.”

The lawyer representing the swim club said they will appeal the ruling. The club must pay a $3.35million fine or $50,000 for each child discriminated against.

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