Are you being bullied? Are you being forced not to tell? Are you being called names? Are you feeling down because of bigger kids picking on you? This is a problem going on in most places of the world and in America. This problem is not controlled. Schools everywhere in America have bullies....
Read MoreOn March 2, 2011, three members of the Harlem Globetrotters performed their famous basketball stunts before students at the Sports and Learning Complex in District Heights, Maryland. About 25 students from the FPCS Woodridge campus had a chance to see their performance....
Read MoreIn December of 2010, somebody discovered a bedbug in a kindergarten classroom on the first floor at our school, Friendship Southeast Academy. There were many kids in the classroom that saw the bug but were not sure what kind of bug it was. When the week was over the janitors sprayed the...
Read MoreI like to read Sharon M. Draper's books because she gives a lot of details that make you feel like you are actually in the book. November Blues has two main characters. The main character is November, a 16-year-old girl who gets pregnant the night before her boyfriend, Josh, dies because he...
Read MoreOn November 16, 2010, a group of students from Chamberlain Elementary went to the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. Our teachers told us to split up into groups of 4 or 5 and they sent us on a scavenger hunt at the museum. Each group had to find a sculpture that...
Read MoreFNN Reporter Nina Graham interviews Cornell West.
Read MoreHundreds of Friendship Public Charter School students joined the Children's Defense Fund for a rally at the U.S. Capitol to support President Obama's effort to get health care for all children in the United States. And it paid off. The bill was passed on March 23, 2010.
Read MoreEver wondered what it takes to be a jet pilot? Well, the FNN news crew had a chance to find out when they caught the Thunderbirds in action at the Andrews Air Show. The air show is coming again this May and it's awesome. If you're...
Read MoreOn February 25, 2010, our FNN news crew went to the Newseum, a museum filled with historic facts and current events of the world to learn about architectural photography from professional photographer Alan Karchmer.
Read MoreA few months ago, FNN’s Imani Strong got the opportunity to interview Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream fame. FNN producer Nina Graham helped to produce this feature.
Read MoreByline: Produced by Jarrell Davis, Flonora Merritt and Darin Davis
Read MoreHere’s some enigmas (silly stuff) and questions that have always made me wonder. I’ve never really found legitimate answers for them. As a child I was taught that every question deserves an answer and was encouraged to have an inquisitive mind to broaden my horizon. I wish to do the same for you...
Read More“Obama wins,” was the sound from every Democrat throughout America with the election of the first multiracial president. I was one of the lucky millions to actually vote in the election. According to many news sources Obama’s victory was due to the fact that a large percentage of the...
Read MoreSen. Barack Obama smiled as he walked into Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pa., last Friday afternoon, making the hot, overcrowded gymnasium, with its predominantly White crowd, just a little cooler than it was just moments before his arrival. The audience roared when he entered...
Read More“Obama For Change” What does this mean? I had a chance to know what that meant first-hand when I attended one of his rallies at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Penn., where Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) had another theme called, “On Track for Change.”
Read MoreJames Earl Ray tried to kill King’s Dream, but it didn’twork. The dream for equality may have slowed down, but it eventually resurfaced years later with a new vision. Now, forty years later, one of the front-runners for president is Barack Obama, a black man. Obama is living...
Read MoreSome people believe that the assassin, James Earl Ray killed the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King. I think that because of the assassination the dream was not only fulfilled, but made much stronger. The death of a black man who only wanted everyone to be equal–no matter...
Read MoreJames Earl Ray tried to kill King’s Dream, but it didn’t work. The dream for equality may have slowed down, but it eventually resurfaced years later with a new vision. Now, forty years later, one of the front-runners for president is ...
Read MoreI believe that killing Dr. Martin Luther King did and didn’t kill the dream because Dr. Martin Luther King already got the message out that everyone should be equal. The dream will stay until everyone becomes equal. Once you kill a leader, it might bring down others and make them...
Read MoreJames Earl Ray tried to sabotage Martin Luther King’s dream. Ray believed by destroying King’s dream he could prevent blacks from becoming the future and being the successes that we are today. I believe that when James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. King, King’s dream became stronger...
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