Quinton Murphy of Jack Britt High School ini Fayetteville North Carolina was very excited about his graduation. So excited that when it was his time…
Young people have always been leaders of change within the movement. Despite being thought of as the unengaged generation, there are millennials who are changing…
CLEVELAND — Seventy Cleveland school teachers have been notified they are not being renewed, fired. Union President David Quolke claims the union and the teachers are being “blindsided.” School spokesperson Roseann Canfora confirmed the action. READ MORE: WKYC.com Article and Picture Courtesy of WKYC Channel 3 News
(RNN) – The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released a list of the universities and colleges that are under investigation for how sexual violence and harassment complaints were handled. There are 55 schools on the list. These investigations fall under the Title IX federal law, which says students should not be […]
On Thursday, first lady Michelle Obama and rapper-slash-actor Bow Wow joined 37 students from Chicago public high schools for a tour of Howard University, our…
You would think most Americans would be eager to attend a speech when the keynote speaker is Michelle Obama, one of the most popular First…
When most people think of racial disparities in economics and education, the Deep South—due to its vast history of being the epicenter of white supremacy…
With the release of the National Urban League‘s 38th annual State Of Black America Report, a panel discussion involving key figures of NUL opens up an examination…
Kwasi Enin, a senior at William Floyd High School in Shirley, New York, applied to all eight Ivy League Universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell—and was accepted to all of them. “My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight,” says Nancy Winkler, a […]
For many years, the distinction of being Yale University’s first Black student went to Edward Bouchet, an 1874 graduate. His portrait hung in the Yale…
On July 26, 2012, President Obama launched his official White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans. The program is designed to help children of…
9-year-old Asean Jackson has had it up to here with Chicago politicians. He lets them know in an impassioned speech to protest school closures in…