Which is better, TikTok or Musical.ly? As a young child, I have used both. Musical.ly was the original app everyone had, and the more likes you got for your videos the cooler you were. There were lots of popular musers on the app, like Jacob Sartorius, Loren Beech and Liza Koshy.

12/18/2019  As the year came to an end and winter break gets near, the FPCS Blow Pierce Campus hosted a spirit week to spread the holiday cheer! One of the spirit weekdays was titled “Winter White Wednesday”. On this day, students, teachers, and staff wore all-white or mostly white and participated in a snowball fight.

Do you love Tyler Perry? Do you find Madea to be funny? Well, now there is a special channel just for Madea fans. Tyler Perry has just launched the new channel called BET Plus. With BET Plus, viewers can stream all of its movies anywhere at any time! 

It Chapter 2 is the sequel to the 2017 movie, It. The movie picks up 27 years after the first movie. The Losers Club, now adults are called back to their hometown, Derry, to conquer their fears and defeat the murderous clown, Pennywise, once and for all.

Video by Dynasty Thomas

JUNE 11, 2019: Video by Maniya Porter

On April 26, 2019, Marvel Studios released the movie “The Avengers: End Game. This is the last movie for phase three of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I am a big Avengers fan, so when I saw all the previews for this movie, I was very excited about it.

Video by Michael Williams. Interviews by Jeremiah Mack. Photos by Aneara Burns, Tsion Cummings and Mikhail Minor. 

Sister Location is one of my favorite games in the “Five Nights at Freddy’s” series. It is one of those new video games where you have to survive a horror scene. If you like horror movies, then you’re going to enjoy playing this game a lot.

Proud Mary is about a hit-woman, Mary, who works for a crime family. During her journey as a professional hit woman, she had to take care of a young boy, Danny whose father was killed during a professional hit. Mary found Danny unconscious in an alley after he became a drug mule.

This past weekend one of the biggest concerts of the year was held in California, the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Over five million viewers tuned in to watch the live performance of Beyoncé. She is the first black woman to headline the music festival.

Woodridge Girls Rock! In honor of Women in History Month, forty-five girls were selected by their teachers to see the movie, A Wrinkle in Time along with our principal Felicia Owo. This happened because of donated tickets to more than 12,000 students nationwide.

Throughout the entire month of February, which is also known as Black History Month, Friendship Tech Prep scholars and staff celebrated the entire month together. We had many different events, special lunches, and social media challenges.

On June 25th, BET showed off what is said to be “The Livest Award Show on T.V”, the 2017 BET Awards hosted by Leslie Jones. The BET Awards were always known to be crazy, fun and entertaining, and this year they did not disappoint. This year’s show was filled with amazing moments, and I am here to recap all of the excitement.

Have you ever watched a show called Boondocks?Well, the person who helped create it came to visit our school, Friendship Armstrong Academy.

Armstrong held its second annual Talent Show on February 17, 2017. The tryouts started with 20 students and ended up with 10 students and some adults performing. All these students worked very hard for the past five weeks.

FEBRUARY 28th, 2017, Friendship Armstrong Academy: Today you are going to be reading about the 2017 Black History Month performances at Friendship Armstrong Academy and about the early childhood performance called “The Power of Words”. The students performed the celebration of “The Power of Words” to celebrate Black History Month and what it means to them and how we can remember the African-Americans from our history.

Farafina Kan is an American based West African drum and dance company currently housed in Mt, Rainier, Maryland. Farafina Kan was founded by Mahiri Keita and Diallo Sumbry who are brothers. We play West African music from many different countries. 

The Armstrong Theatre Club had a play based on the famous civil rights legend, Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Armstrong Auditorium. They did this not only to recognize Dr. King but also to recognize other African-American icons from our history.

Here at Blow Pierce Elementary School, Ms. Morgan and Ms. Foster’s Pre-K classroom had a poetry slam. The poetry slam was a fundraiser. They sold bracelets, paintings, and food like shrimp and grits, drinks, and pastries to raise money for an end-of-year field trip. The room was decorated in a fun way.