NewsEducationNewsEducationRoc Nation Partners With New York's Long Island University to Launch School of Music, Sports and EntertainmentProspective students at Brooklyn’s Long Island University (LIU) will have the chance to learn from some of the best…ByJ'na JeffersonPublishedAugust 5, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationIllinois Lawmaker and Community Leaders Are Working to Suspend Current History Curriculum That 'Leads to White Privilege and a Racist Society'A group of community leaders in Illinois are working with a state lawmaker to abolish the current history curriculum…ByJoe JuradoPublishedAugust 4, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationStudy Links Lynching Rates to Corporal Punishment in Southern States: ‘There’s a Historical Trajectory’Depending on where you live, corporal punishment—the practice of school administrators, staffers, or teachers…ByAnne BraniginPublishedJuly 21, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationHBCUs in Atlanta to Go Virtual for Fall SemesterInexplicably, there’s an ongoing argument happening across the country about sending kids back to school even as…ByJoe JuradoPublishedJuly 20, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationMarsai Martin Partners With Urban School Food Alliance and Student Voice to Support Free School Meals for All K-12 StudentsMarsai Martin believes all students should have access to free lunch. I do, too. ByTonja Renée StidhumPublishedJuly 9, 2020
NewsEducationHBCUsNewsEducationHBCUsFive-Star Recruit Makur Maker Commits to Howard, 'Makes the HBCU Movement Real'Real estate is cool, but if you want to make some real paper, you might want to look into college sports—provided…ByJay ConnorPublishedJuly 6, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationGeorgia History Teacher Suspended for Teaching HistoryAuthorities in a rural Georgia school district are punishing a history instructor who seemingly dedicated all of his…ByMichael HarriotPublishedJune 30, 2020
NewsEducationHBCUsNewsEducationHBCUsNetflix CEO Donating $120 Million to HBCUs and the United Negro College FundNetflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin will donate an allotted total of $120 million to HBCUs and…ByJ'na JeffersonPublishedJune 17, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationThe Obamas, Beyoncé and More Deliver Heartfelt Speeches For YouTube's Virtual Commencement CeremonyYouTube’s live-streamed commencement ceremony to celebrate the members of the graduating class of 2020 nationwide…ByJ'na JeffersonPublishedJune 8, 2020
NewsEducationHBCUsNewsEducationHBCUsPrivate Equity Investor Frank Baker Pays Off Tuition Debt for 2020 Spelman College GraduatesFrank Baker, an African-American investor who heads the billion-dollar private equity firm Siris, has paid off the…ByIshena RobinsonPublishedMay 25, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationQuavo Walked It Like He Talked It Across the Class of 2020 Virtual Stage and Is Now a High School GraduateQuavo is officially a 2020 high school graduate, y’all. ByTonja Renée StidhumPublishedMay 22, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationBarack Obama Surprises 3 Chicago Educators With Video Call for Teacher Appreciation WeekWhere would we be as a society without our educators? Teachers have a difficult and extremely important job for…ByZack LinlyPublishedMay 6, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationBarack and Michelle Obama to Give Commencement Addresses During YouTube's Graduation CeremonyBarack and Michelle Obama are set to give separate commencement addresses during YouTube’s live-streamed graduation…ByJ'na JeffersonPublishedMay 5, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationRapsody's EVE Has Inspired Courses at Two UniversitiesRapsody’s EVE is considered by some people to be the best hip-hop album of 2019 bar none (it’s me...I’m “some…ByZack LinlyPublishedApril 18, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationMy Nephew Wanted to Go to Morehouse College. He's Going to the University of Alabama. We Just Lost One, One.Back in October 2019—in a version of the world that is very different from the version we live in now—my nephew,…ByPanama JacksonPublishedMarch 25, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationI'm a Senior at Howard University Leaving Campus Because of the Coronavirus. Here's What That Looks LikeWednesday, March 11, started out as a regular morning. I got to work at 4 a.m., got off at 10:30 a.m. and caught a…ByBrianna NPublishedMarch 17, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationSegregation, Reparations and Cultural Appropriation: Maryland Passes Legislation Settling HBCU LawsuitMaryland state senators voted to send more than a half-billion dollars to four majority-black institutions of higher…ByMichael HarriotPublishedMarch 16, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducation9 Things I've Learned Since the Coronavirus, aka COVID-19, aka #ThatRona, Has Become Part of All of Our LivesI’ve seen with my own two eyes SEVERAL people walk clean up out the public restroom without washing their hands. And…ByPanama JacksonPublishedMarch 12, 2020
NewsEducationHBCUsNewsEducationHBCUsHoly Shit: Beyoncé Mass at Spelman College Causes Ticket FrenzyThere are no known plans for Queen Bey to show up to the religious service in her whole-y name but the tickets are…ByBrooklyn BaldwinPublishedMarch 1, 2020
NewsEducationNewsEducationThe 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Will Officially Become a Part of Oklahoma School Curriculum Beginning in the FallGrowing up in Tulsa, Okla., I distinctly remember learning all about the Sooner State’s transition from a Native…ByJay ConnorPublishedFebruary 20, 2020