Education

Ta-Nehisi Coates National Correspondent, The Atlantic; Author, ?We Were Eight Years in Power? appears on "Meet the Press" in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Oct. 1, 2017. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to stop…
/ July 21, 2023
S.T.E.M., The Rise: Color of S.T.E.M., HBCUs and S.T.E.M., Black S.T.E.M. students, Black women in S.T.E.M., Virginia State University, theGrio
Virginia State University alum Joy Watson talks about how a passion for math and attending an HBCU fueled her career…
/ July 20, 2023
Florida race teachings
The Florida State Board of Education has approved new guidelines, which will teach students that Black people benefited from slavery.
/ July 20, 2023
HBCUs applications increase
Historically Black colleges and universities in America could limit the numbers of students they admit following a surge in applicants.
/ July 19, 2023
A woman uses a laptop in a library
As states prepare to receive billions for broadband infrastructure, we must work to ensure that Black students are not short-changed.
/ July 18, 2023
Food stamp benefits may soon no longer be available to many full-time college students struggling with serious food insecurity.
/ July 17, 2023
The William Penn district used COVID-19 relief funds to hire specialists to help address achievement gaps, but that money runs…
/ July 16, 2023
Mississippi started a court-ordered process of letting people cite religious beliefs to seek exemptions from state-mandated vaccinations.
/ July 16, 2023
Kathleen McElroy
An esteemed Black journalist, Kathleen McElroy expressed remorse that Texas A&M University's culture barely changed from her undergrad days.
/ July 15, 2023
banning Black literature, theGrio.com
Banning books not only diminish the injustices experienced by generations of Americans but also prevent educators from doing their jobs.
/ July 14, 2023
A key objective of the program is to expose the Black college community to the inner workings of the Las…
/ July 12, 2023
Back to school costs, Black families, Biden Administration childcare cap, Back to school shopping, theGrio.com
Inflation, cost of living, and childcare costs are all up. This school year, does the Biden Adminstration have a solution?
/ July 12, 2023