NNPA NEWSWIRE — El-Mekki is answering his own “nation building” call. In May, he announced that after 11 years as Shoemaker’s principal and 26 years of...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus –Congressional Black (CBC) Caucus Chair Karen Bass (CA-37), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Joaquin Castro (TX-20), and...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Due to Hurricane Dorian, Denny’s has postponed the first stop of its 2019 NCNW Hungry for Education HBCU Tour at Claflin and...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — The chair of a group commissioned to provide policy and funding recommendations for Maryland’s public education system announced Thursday that a final decision on...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — Pay It Forward. It has its own hashtag, movement and popular campaign but for Detroit businessman, philanthropist, author and co-owner of Real Times...
PRECINCT REPORTER GROUP NEWS — Helping students unlock their “aha moments” is what Rejoice C. Chavira enjoys most about her job. For nearly 30 years, Chavira...
Chanting “No school closures, Oakland is not for sale,” teachers, parents, students took over the dais and shut down a Sept. 25 school board meeting at...
Historians estimate that one in four cowboys was Black, yet little is known about their lives and adventures in the Wild West. The cowboy lifestyle evolved...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Wednesday, September 18, South Central opened its’ arms to The Beehive, the nation’s first-ever business campus for opportunity-zone (OZ) operated businesses. Here, some...
INDIANAPOLIS RECORDER — Getting ahead in 2019 requires financial wisdom, so local chapters of 100 Black Men, including the Indianapolis chapter, offer Dollars and Sense: a...
WASHINGTON INFORMER — To the ire of his state’s lawmakers, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has offered a final proposal of $200 million to settle a...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Los Angeles Unified submitted a public comment letter on Monday to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) in opposition of proposed eligibility...
ATLANTA VOICE — Atlanta Public Schools (APS) announced Sept. 26 a new partnership with the national nonprofit DonorsChoose.org aimed at taking crowdfunding education to the next level....
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — Atlanta native Chelesa Fearce is living proof that you can rise above your circumstances and overcome the odds. Despite battling homelessness throughout her high school...
BIRMINGHAM TIMES — The city of Birmingham was selected as one of five American cities to replicate Providence Talks, a free, citywide early childhood program that...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — The Compton Unified School District (CUSD), in partnership with the Carrot Group and the Los Angeles Chargers, will host its first-ever eSports High...
DAYTONA TIMES — The National Hook-Up of Black Women, Inc. (NHBW) was organized in 1974 during the fourth Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Weekend in Washington, D.C.,...
CHICAGO CRUSADER — A judge has granted the City of Chicago’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and national Lawyers’...
In partnership with former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. and China’s top climate change official, Xie Zhenhua, UC Berkeley announced the launch of a...
During the era of slavery, African Americans were denied education by law. More than 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and subsequent statutes, laws and Booker...
Terrifying news had reached Boston: the infectious, debilitating disease Smallpox had reached the colonial town and was spreading rapidly. Its first victims, passengers on a ship...
GREENE COUNTY DEMOCRAT — The Greene County Board of Education held its annual public budget hearings September 5-6, 2019 as well as a called school board meeting...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The inaugural cohort of Hennessy Fellows is comprised of 10 MBA students from HBCUs, who were recently invited to New York City to...
CHICAGO DEFENDER — New Orleans-based media company, Raising Black Millionaires, has just released the first volume in their series of Raising Black Millionaires Flashcards, to empower...
ATLANTA DAILY WORLD — Just a decade ago, Atlanta Public Schools were in the throes of an academic and ethical nightmare. The APS cheating scandal which found...
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