TheGrio's 100: Ashanti Johnson, an ocean deep love for science
TheGrio's 100 - As Johnson pursued an education in oceanography, she realized her field of study wasn't so diverse...
TheGrio's 100: John Jackson, bridging education's racial divide
TheGrio's 100 - John Jackson was twelve years old when he moved from Chicago to the suburbs and saw a difference not only in his environment, but in his education...
TheGrio's 100: Roland Fryer, translating education into money
TheGrio's 100 - Roland Fryer "Beat the odds", but don't tell him that. This former hustler turned Harvard professor now helps change the odds for poor and minority kids...
TheGrio's 100: Freeman A. Hrabowski III, university president and educational trailblazer
TheGrio's 100 - Hrabowski looks like a proud papa scurrying around his office showing off pictures of kids he nurtured...
TheGrio's 100: Omo Moses, equating things for next generation
theGrio's 100 - Omo Moses speaks like a true activist, following in the path of the great men who share his name...
Black woman is the highest paid college president
(AP) - Topping the list of the nation's highest-paid university presidents is Shirley Ann Jackson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., whose total compensation is pegged at nearly $1.6 million...
Hypocrisy reigns for critics of the first non-black Miss Hampton U
OPINION - The crowning of Nikole Churchill as the first non-black Miss Hampton University has caused a ruckus at the historically-black institution...
Civil rights icon fights for school that tried to shut her out
In 1960, Ruby Bridges was only 6 when she walked passed an angry mob to become the first black student at William Frantz, an all white school in New Orleans. Now, Ruby is working to reopen the doors that once threatened to shut her out...
School to be named after the nation's first black priest
Columbia's first Catholic high school will be named after the nation's first known black priest. The Rev. Augustine Tolton was born into slavery in Ralls County in 1854...
Why it's time to talk about our children
OPINION -- Fifty-four years ago, the late Thurgood Marshall via the Brown v. Board of Education decision, affirmed one of the core principals upon which this society is based: equality...
