Education

Southern Illinois University professor Angel Jones - Black bereavement leave

Illinois professor says schools should provide ‘bereavement’ to Black employees amid racially charged national news

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Jackson State president put on leave, temporary leader named

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College board votes to abolish diversity, equity, inclusion office

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California school district racism

Children say students called them ‘cotton picker,’ ‘slave.’ Parents take legal action

Parents of students at Pepper Tree Elementary School in Upland, California, are taking legal action over alleged acts of unchecked…
/ February 28, 2023

Justice Thomas wrote of ‘crushing weight’ of student loans

Thomas was in his mid-40s and in his third year on the nation's highest court when he paid off the…
/ February 25, 2023

Jason Arday, autistic and once unable to speak, to become youngest Black professor ever at Cambridge University

Sociologist Jason Arday is making history as the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship at the University of…
/ February 24, 2023

HBCU-trained teachers, Black or white, more effective educators of Black students, study finds

HBCUs play an outsize role in producing teachers of color in the U.S., where only 7% of teachers are Black,…
/ February 24, 2023

Texas educators bow to pressure and halt new diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives

Republican lawmakers in Texas said DEI initiatives, which benefit the historically disenfranchised, are "forbidden" and "illegal."
/ February 24, 2023
House Speaker Tim Moore

Here we go again. North Carolina wants to make it harder to talk about race in the classroom.

North Carolina wants to make it harder to teach about race, as Republican lawmakers push to enact an anti-Critical Race…
/ February 24, 2023
Gloria and Victoria Guerrier

Black twin sisters honored as valedictorian and salutatorian of their high school

Gloria Guerrier's grade point average at West Hempstead Secondary School was 105.3, while that of twin sister Victoria was 104.9.
/ February 23, 2023
slave murals

A white artist painted murals at a college depicting slavery. A Black administrator wants them removed.

A Black administrator and students want a white artist's murals depicting the brutality of slavery removed from a Vermont law…
/ February 22, 2023
Publisher removes Rosa Parks race x Gov. Ron DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis knows exactly what he’s doing with his war on books

Empty the libraries and you hide evidence of historical crimes. DeSantis wants to erase Black people from the record so…
/ February 21, 2023

Poor schools, some with mostly Black students, suffer as building repairs languish

For poorer school districts, deciding what to do with COVID money meant working on academic recovery or fixing infrastructure needs.
/ February 21, 2023

Enlightened and ‘woke as hell’ Democrats decry GOP, DeSantis-led ‘culture war’ on Black history

This Black History Month took on a new meaning for Democrats in protest of Republican bans on Black history in…
/ February 20, 2023

Michigan State faces fears of opening classes after attack

The university confirmed Friday that campus operations would resume, even as officials have faced pressure to delay the return.
/ February 19, 2023