Black History Month

OPINION - Today as in times past, HBCUs give the best and the brightest an education which can catapult them…
/ October 28, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - The initiative is designed to increase the pipeline of HBCU students into the financial services industry...
/ October 27, 2010
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The new version of "Our Virginia: Past and Present" will correct a sentence that inaccurately claims…
/ October 26, 2010
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Parents of black students say few college prep courses are offered at a predominantly black high…
/ October 26, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - His archives preserve music that has largely disappeared from the continent because of colonialism and the influence…
/ October 22, 2010


The Myth of the Black Confederate has found a home primarily in Lost Cause circles, particularly Southern heritage groups like…
/ October 21, 2010
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The refurbished Vele High School in South Africa's Limpopo province will feature 16 classrooms and accommodate some…
/ October 21, 2010
OPINION - Jackie Robinson said his visits to Philadelphia were among "the most unpleasant days in my life, that brought…
/ October 21, 2010
BALTIMORE (AP) - Over the last three years, black males have improved their graduation rate and decreased their dropout rate…
/ October 20, 2010
(AP) - Overall, post-secondary educational achievement has flat-lined, meaning today's young adults are no better educated than the baby-boomer generation,…
/ October 20, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - The Tucson Unified School District program offers specialized courses in African-American, Mexican-American and Native-American studies...
/ October 19, 2010
ATLANTA (AP) - Recy Taylor survived only to watch two all-white, all-male grand juries decline to indict the six white…
/ October 15, 2010