School residency arrests raise fairness questions
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - McDowell and Williams-Bolar are low-income black single mothers, a fact that disturbs civil rights activists who question whether they are being singled out unfairly...
Are black graduations 'reverse racism'?
theGRIO REPORT - While a handful of detractors call these ceremonies discriminatory, a large number of students and professors laud these events...
Chicago men give back by reading to kids
VIDEO - Sometimes giving back to the community can take up as little as one hour a month. For the students at Chicago's Nicholson Technology Academy, that one-hour is making a huge impact...
DOJ: Miss. schools still segregated despite order
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A public school district in Mississippi and the federal government are divided over whether the schools are complying with a desegregation order that dates back to the civil rights era...
How homeless mom's fight to educate her child hits home
OPINION - I have never met Kelley Williams or Tanya MacDowell. I know their stories not only because I read about them, but because I lived it...
Race complaints in La. gov's plan to merge schools
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Eye-level watermarks, gutted buildings and rows of mobile classrooms linger as reminders of the flooding from Hurricane Katrina that nearly wiped out Southern University...
Harvard has more black students than ever, but are they African-American?
OPINION - The irony is that the multicultural inclusiveness that is desired by colleges and universities is the same thing that can distort the numbers for black students...
Literacy program gets 4th graders excited to read
VIDEO - Nationwide studies show that only 33 percent of 4th graders are proficient or better at reading. 22 percent of adults can barely read at all...
How come Head Start is always on the chopping block?
OPINION - Head Start, the popular preschool program serving nearly a million lower income children, has come under attack from Congressional Republicans...
UDC students demand president's resignation
VIDEO - Students at the University of the District of Columbia demonstrated Monday against President Allen Sessoms, whose travel expenses have caused controversy...
