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This Friday, more than 400 Black role models will visit students at schools in 67 cities across 32 states as...

This summer, the Department of Education announced an experimental Second Chance Pell Pilot program to examine how such prison education...

Her name was Nancy Green. Away from the elaborate tombs and ornate grave markers bearing the prominent names of national...

National Recovery Month, September, is right up there with Black History Month in its importance to African Americans and deserves...

Led by Fox News, conservatives are trying to discredit the #Black LivesMatter Movement by claiming incorrectly that it is a...

Many community members have refused to accept the narrative about Bland’s suicide, and became even more irate once dash cam...

When talk of social progress turns to such sentiments as standing on the shoulders of those who came before us,...

Companies that sell snacks, soda and other high-calorie foods are pouring millions into advertising campaigns that are targeted to Black...

Year after year in measure after measure, Black, Latino, and Native American students trail their White peers in educational outcomes....

As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, civil rights groups and leaders, union...

Many public school districts in this country are now “re-segregated.” This dreary fact, among others, was discussed during last week’s...

It’s been one year since the murder of Michael Brown galvanized the Ferguson, Mo. community and forced the nation to...

Some 2,000 journalists and media personalities were in Twin Cities for the 40th National Association of Black Journalists convention in...

It seems that Minnesota in recent years has become the nation’s worst leader in educating kids of color. As a...

A broad coalition of civil rights groups delivered more than 500,000 signed petitions to the Justice Department (DOJ), demanding that...

Last week, at the national convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) here, Chavis was participating on panel about...

Recognizing that a college degree is one of the surest paths to a job and economic security, Black families are...

Men of color would earn $170 billion more a year, if they reached the same education level as White men,...

No Child Left Behind expired in 2007 — the law was the last time the original Elementary and Secondary Education...

In the last week of June, as the nation was still mourning and mulling over the massacre at Emanuel A.M.E....