63-year-old Valerie Baxter, better known on campus as Ms. Val, is a college security guard at High Point University who shared emotional goodbyes with the Class of 2023 graduates.  Ms. Val, who has been working at the school for twelve years, refers to these students as her “babies.” and was there to witness their collegiate accomplishment and extend them warm hugs and salutations as they headed to their seats on graduation day. College graduates share emotional goodbyes with their beloved university security officer. ❤️ https://bit.ly/3MO8Y1Q Posted by Good Morning America on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 She said the ceremony was amazing...

And we are so proud of them! The Georgia Chaffee TAPP School in Louisville, Kentucky runs a teenage parent program specifically designed to reduce school dropouts as a result of teen pregnancy and parenting, WLKY news reports. The school caters to young parents, offering them an educational opportunity to excel while offering wrap-around services like childcare, medical support and family resources. The goal is to address all of the external obstacles that may prevent the young moms from continuing their education.  Last week, 17 of the mothers gathered together, majority of them African American, for a special graduation ceremony to...

She’s educated generations of students! Thelma Thomason is a veteran teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, 5 News Online reports. She first began her career in Fayetteville Public Schools as a counselor in 1961, just 7 years after the district integrated schools. Since then, Ms. Thomason has remained in the classroom, teaching through world changes, social uprisings, the phenomena of the internet, technological innovations and global health crises like the recent COVID-19 pandemi.  “God is just good for me because I didn’t even get a cold whenever they had that stuff going around. I didn’t even get sick,” said Thomason.  Now the...

They took home more than $50,000! We know we weren’t the only ones who sat with our grandparents in the evenings watching Price Is Right, Wheel of Fortune, and other game shows hoping that one day it would be us! Well this Mississippi grandmother-grandson duo just made all of our childhood dreams come true. Earlier this month, Retta Alexander and her grandson Julian Hernandez appeared on an episode of Wheel of Fortune for its “Grand Getaways Week,” featuring intergenerational players, Blavity reports.  The two shined on the show, defeating the competition to make it to the “Bonus Round.” With only...

This is a family full of motivation and dedication! In a remarkable display of intellectual prowess and dedication to education, a video has emerged featuring six exceptional women from the same family proudly revealing the number of degrees they have earned. Erica Chiles shared how accomplished the women in her family were by asking her mom, grandmother, aunt, and cousin how many degrees they have, and the numbers made us all smile.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by FLY, HIP & AGELESS ™ (@flyageless) From bachelor's degrees to master's and even doctorates, the array of academic achievements...