February is Black History Month and is no longer serving its intended purpose. It has turned into a mundane, meaningless and commercialized farce. Some folks pay only perfunctory lip service to the month. The celebration was started in 1926 by Carter G ...

Taylor Miller, Hauser, 24.5, 7. Amanda Moore, Seymour, 23.7, 8. Maura Muensterman, Evansville Mater Dei, 23.3, 9. Akilah Sims, FW Snider, 23.3, 10. Dakota Weatherford, Hamilton Heights, 23.1. 1. Stephanie Barmes, Suburban Christian, 324 ...

Snider forward Akilah Sims and her two fellow senior teammates could not have scripted Senior Night any better. Despite all the accolades over the past four seasons, including a pair of sectional crowns and a regional title, the trio of ...

OSSIAN - Snider senior Akilah Sims admitted it. She and her teammates were a bit rattled and shook up after a pair of losses to South Side in the last three weeks. “I have to admit we were kind of down,” Sims said. “It is bad to lose twice ...

When Newton College and Career Academy (NCCA) opened last August, Akilah George and Kyle Wright were among the first 240 students to enroll. An innovative education model, the career academy aligns high school education with community economic ...

FOX 26 legal analyst Chris Tritico is here to answer your questions. In today's segment, he addresses several questions: FROM AKILAH: "I have an open child support enforcement case. I've been to court 4 times and the judge will not enforce the ...

Her journey's purpose was to film for a nonprofit organization. The Akilah Institute for Women in Kigali is a nonprofit college that prepares women for careers in hospitality. Many of these students lost parents in the genocide that wiped out ...

District 3 girls: Allyson Bunch, Columbus East. Dec. 12-17 -- District 1 boys: Clay Yeo, Triton. District 1 girls: Akilah Sims, Fort Wayne Snider. District 2 boys: Stephen Toyra, Faith Christian. District 2 girls: Rachael Gregory, North Central.

The trend for Indianapolis is fewer but bigger events hosted by those who already have a big stake in the (NFL)." Akilah Johnson writes, "The home of Hoosier hospitality and the Indianapolis 500 is only the 15th metro area to host the Super Bowl ...

On her Huffington Post blog, Akilah Bolden-Monifa called it a “farce” and argued that advertisers and book publishers have commercialized the celebration to boost sales of everything from books to liquor. “Black History Month has become a ready-made ...