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“You’re our hero!” Support for the now-suspended New Jersey teacher who allowed her third-graders to write get-well letters to former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal was…

Annika McKenzie and her 14-year-old niece have been arrested after assaulting Catherine Engelhardt, a 22-year veteran math teacher at Alverta B. Gray Schultz Middle School…

Earlier this week we heard about Harold Ekeh, the New York teenager accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. Now, Munira Khalif, a senior at Mounds Park Academy in…

According to new data from the Department of Education, graduation rates for Black and Hispanic students increased by nearly four percentage points from 2011 to 2013, outpacing…

A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a civil suit filed by a White Chicago public school teacher who claims he should not have been…

Get the facts, and then decide. By Denise Dunbar March 25, 2015 Plans are in the works to fix Georgia’s failing schools, or are they? Seems like the more information that’s released about a new piece of legislation that’s progressing at the state capitol, the more confused some people become. Governor Nathan Deal calls it […]

Technology has changed our lives drastically over the course of the last 20 years. From the advent of the internet, to the use of smartphones,…

A video clip of a California middle school vice principal telling a group of children he didn’t like the black students at the school is sparking…

At only ten-years-old, Esther Okade has begun taking college courses to her Open University undergraduate Math degree. She was accepted as a student after acing an exam and winning…

Black female students are facing two huge institutional challenges as racism and sexism converge in a way that mean stiffer punishments for them. A new…

Earlier this week, a group of about a dozen Black students walked out of Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Virigina after learning of…

Have you noticed more composition books, pencils and crayons in the front of stores lately? All those school supplies should be making you feel some kind of way, because the start of the 2014-15 school year is than a month away for most school districts. To make sure you’re on top of it, we’ve listed […]