Education

Nicki Minaj will be the subject of a college course at the University of California, Berkeley in Spring 2023.
/ October 10, 2022
Virginia schools are creating scholarships and youth pipeline programs to encourage more Black students to pursue medical careers.
/ October 8, 2022
I had the pleasure of being a mystery reader in my first grader’s class. A mystery reader is a reader…
/ October 7, 2022
Annette Gordon-Reed, who integrated Texas' Conroe ISD in 1964, visited and dedicated a school named in her honor in the…
/ October 7, 2022
Student loan forgiveness
A conservative Wisconsin law firm has filed a lawsuit to block President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.
/ October 5, 2022
River Valley High School slave auction
A California high school has forfeited the remainder of its football season after some of the players participated in a…
/ October 3, 2022
A collection of 10,000 stereotype-defying images documenting Black life in Central Virginia will be on display at UVA.
/ October 2, 2022
School price fixing settlement
Tyler Perry has become the latest Black filmmaker whose contributions to popular culture are the focus of a college course.
/ October 1, 2022
James Meredith will be honored at the Ole Miss-Kentucky game Saturday in an ironic echo of history 60 years to…
/ October 1, 2022
The University of Maryland renamed a dorm for Elaine Johnson Coates and Hiram Whittle, who were among the first Black…
/ October 1, 2022
Six Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration to halt its plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of…
/ September 29, 2022
A Day Without Us theGrio.com
Planned for Sept. 30, ‘Day Without Us’ responds to the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a full day centering…
/ September 27, 2022