Alex Hogan is STAT’s senior multimedia producer and host of STATus Report, STAT’s weekly video series. You can follow him on Bluesky. A doctor “pretending” to do CPR on a patient might seem like an ...

A Polk County kindergarten teacher received a written reprimand for singing a version of "Happy Birthday" with monkey-related lyrics to a Black student. The school district found the teacher violated ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Polk County Schools has completed its investigation into a teacher's controversial birthday song to a student — one that prompted his mom to demand an apology for its "racist" ...

A Florida teacher is under investigation for singing a version of "Happy Birthday" with racist undertones to a 6-year-old Black student. Comparing Black people to monkeys has a long, painful history ...

A mother is raising concerns after a teacher used the word ‘monkey’ while singing ‘Happy Birthday’ to her son. A mother is speaking out after a teacher used the word “monkey” in her 6-year-old son’s ...

An outraged Florida mom accused her son’s white elementary school teacher of racism after the educator sang the black child an alternate version of the “Happy Birthday” song that includes the word ...

A Polk County teacher is under investigation after a video of her singing a song to a Black kindergartner went viral. The song included the lyrics, "You look like a monkey, and you smell like one, too ...

Karly B. is a music news journalist at Collider, specializing in the Western and Asian music industries. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Media and Web Technology, she has dedicated part ...

Every year, there’s one track that somehow makes its way from a teenager’s headphones to my mom’s Pilates playlist. You know, the song that plays at rooftop bars and seeps into your subconscious ...