Education

Grantsmanship Training Program in Phoenix November 5-9 Fresh Start Women’s Foundation 1130 E. McDowell Phoenix, AZ 85006 Event Cost/Ticket Price: $1,095 Improve your ability to win grants. The Grantsmanship Center’s 5-day Grantsmanship Training Program has a proven record...

4th Annual Children’s Free Book Fair November 10 11 am to 4 pm Booker T. Washington Child Development Center 1519 E. Adams Street Phoenix, AZ 85034 Pre-registration open for new high quality FREE books, school supplies, backpacks, and Phoenix Suns caps for children. Click...

Phoenix AKARAMA Foundation and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated – Delta Beta Omega Chapter presents Fashionetta 2018: Finesse December 1 at 8:45 a.m. JW Marriott Desert Ridge 5350 East Marriott Drive, Phoenix Event Cost/Ticket Price: $80 General; $90 Prime You are...

Written by Tremaine Jasper, Owner/Managing Editor of PhxSoul.com If you asked me before the year 2015 if the Phoenix metropolitan area needed a predominantly Black neighborhood, I would have said, “No.” Although racism has been alive and well in Arizona for decades, I...

From an outsider’s point of view, Chandler may look like paradise. Well-manicured lawns, nice spacious homes, restaurants, office buildings and great parks. But something ugly is happening inside the school system and local residents attended a Chandler Unified School Board...

Submitted by Dr. Tamika Sanders, Director of Programming for Savvy Pen As Trump protests helping immigrants from “shithole” countries and students Snapchat racist lyrics celebrating the death of Dr. King, the need for multiculturalism has never been greater! The idea of...

Submitted by Connie Drake Wilson The Delta Beta Omega (DBO) Educational Advancement Foundation Committee hosted a wine and cheese fundraiser on Sunday, May 22 benefitting the Grace Strauther Endowment Fund. The fund has been established; however, in order to award scholarships,...

Submitted by Crystal Lewis Brown The Phoenix AKARAMA Foundation and Delta Beta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., presented $22,500 in scholarships during a luncheon on May 21 at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix. The 10 scholarship recipients were graduating...

By now, we’ve all heard about what happened at Desert Vista High School in the Phoenix suburb of Ahwatukee (if you haven’t heard, click here). Many people were outraged, some defended the stunt as a dumb prank, some even called it “Freedom of Speech.” Many...

Editor’s Note: You must have been living under a rock if you have not yet heard about the six girls at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix who posed for a photograph on their Senior Day in January with the word N-I-*-*-E-R spelled out on their shirts. Needless to say, the...