Teaching our kids, ensuring virtual learning, and getting bombarded by entitled parents all at once takes superpowers. The ...

The texts were received by people in states including Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, South ...

At the University of Alabama this week, Black honors freshman Alyse McCall was in tears and wanted to go home after getting a ...

After receiving the text, one of the first people Burks called was her friend, Walé Elegbede, president of the Rochester branch of the NAACP. Like Burks, he fears that Trump’s win is encouraging other ...

Racist text messages received this week primarily by Black students nationwide — including in Missouri — are under ...

"I had no idea where this condom came from," the mom explains in her now-viral TikTok Crystal Starnes/Tiktok Crystal Starnes was surprised to get a text from her son's kindergarten teacher sharing ...

Imagine finding out the elementary school project you completed — and purposely launched into a lake — was found by a student at the same school your daughter now attends, 26 years later.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Painters union President Jimmy Williams Jr. says “working people deserve a party that... places their issues front and center ...

Teachers in two Massachusetts school districts have gone on strike over pay, paid parental leave and other issues. Teachers ...

A kindergarten teacher discovered a condom in one of her student’s pockets – and her lighthearted text to his mother about it has gone viral. The child’s parent, Crystal Starnes, shared a recent video ...

A kindergarten teacher discovered a condom in one of her student’s pockets – and her lighthearted text to his mother about it has gone viral. The child’s parent, Crystal Starnes, shared a ...