How lacrosse can score black girls scholarships

Trevor Pryce

OPINION - My daughters donʼt play lacrosse, but hereʼs why yours should...

Michigan State rocked by racial intimidation

theGRIO REPORT - These incidents included other racist messages being scrawled on doors; outright physical acts of racial intimidation; and the initial incident of a black doll being hung from a beaded noose in a chemistry lab...

HBCUs: Still relevant in the 'post-racial' era?

Chetachi A. Egwu

TheGrio REPORTS -- Beyond the draw of show bands, step shows and fond campus memories, HBCUs offer a solid academic foundation and a level of guidance that many are often unparalleled...

SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record

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(AP) - "It's a lot of little things," he said. For example, he said, the number of black students taking a solid core curriculum -- a strong predictor of success on the test -- has fallen from 69 percent to 66 percent over a decade...

Study: White students more likely to win scholarships

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California Watch - The figures show that white students here also receive a disproportionately greater share of private scholarship funding...

Are schools suffering from a black brain drain?

Jan Thomas

theGRIO REPORT - There are several important stories that are often omitted during comparisons between immigrant Africans and their U.S. born African-American counterparts...

It's Blackademic: young and black in academia

Chetachi A. Egwu

OPINION - A YourBlackWorld.com study reports that 42 percent of all African-Americans at predominantly white college campuses never had a single black professor during four years of college...

Michigan attorney general fights for affirmative action ban

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DETROIT (AP) - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says he'll meet a Friday deadline to ask an entire appeals court to uphold the state's ban on affirmative action...