Black History Month

MSNBC is focusing on education this week, a focus that will end with a two hour special called _A Stronger…
/ August 9, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Eleanor Josaitis and the Rev. William Cunningham founded Focus: HOPE in 1968 after the riots that widened…
/ August 9, 2011
Her pint-size creations fill nearly every inch of her living room in Compton. On her carpet slaves in chains await…
/ August 9, 2011
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A federal judge has ruled that the merger between Memphis City Schools and its surrounding county…
/ August 8, 2011
No Child Left Behind is stalled in Congress - leaving the administration to take the matter into their hands. The…
/ August 8, 2011
(AP) - Arne Duncan says he will announce a new waiver system Monday to give schools a break from student…
/ August 8, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg will kick in $30 million from his foundation and hedge fund manager…
/ August 4, 2011
OPINION - New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the billionaire financier George Soros have teamed up to aid African-American and…
/ August 4, 2011
VIDEO - According to some studies, fewer than half of all high school seniors can pass a basic financial literacy…
/ August 4, 2011
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina is one of about a half dozen states to apologize for past eugenics programs,…
/ August 1, 2011
MONEY, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is providing $152,000 to restore a gas station as…
/ August 1, 2011
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The University of the District of Columbia moved Tuesday to study the cost of erecting a monument…
/ July 29, 2011