Education

Future Stars, Inc. presents 4th Annual Hands On STEM Fair April 27 10AM to 2PM Faye Gray Recreation Center 5745 S. 20th St., Phoenix Free Family Event! The Hands On STEM Fair is an event of hands on activities that is open to all the community. The first 150 students to arrive at...

Mayo Cares (Career Advancement, Research, and Education Summer Program) is an opportunity for current high school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors in Arizona to pursue healthcare professions. The application deadline is April 21, 2019. The goal of the program is to expose high...

The AZ Black Women’s Expo is an upcoming professional event which is due to be held on August 24 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Phoenix Tempe. The event will provide women of color the perfect opportunity to shine and promote their services and products to potential...

Do you want to improve your health? Consider participating in a health promotion program delivered right to your smartphone! Dr. Rodney Joseph’s research team at the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at ASU is conducting a smartphone-delivered health promotion study...

SOUNDS Academy is a non-profit music education organization that teaches, mentors, and provides musical experiences and opportunities for underserved youth. Students receive individual lessons, group classes, and perform on the violin, viola, cello, guitar, and piano. Instruments...

Arizona State University crushed the No. 16 Utah Utes, 38-20, in a homecoming weekend victory at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe. Our photographer Demetrius Smith (DL Smith Photography) caught the biggest plays on his camera! Check out the images from the November 3 game. We plan to...

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...

In order for our children to survive and excel in today’s world, it’s extremely important for them to have responsible, caring and knowledgeable adult role models in their lives. PhxSoul.com feels that it is extremely important to help Black youth find ways to build...

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...