Education

Jordan Nixon thegrio.com
Jordan Nixon, a 17-year-old from Atlanta, Georgia can choose between 39 colleges after she was accepted into all of them…
/ March 10, 2019
Illinois
Black students are not attending college in the state at the rate they once attended, a study says, and officials…
/ March 8, 2019
The University of The Virgin Islands thegrio.com
The University of the Virgin Islands is the first HBCU to offer free tuition to students that live on the…
/ February 13, 2019
Three Long Island middle school teachers from Roosevelt Middle School are currently on leave for displaying images of nooses in…
/ February 13, 2019
Dixie
Residents of the Marin County area where the Dixie School District lies say the name evokes the Confederacy, but others…
/ February 12, 2019
Josiah Sharpe thegrio.com
A school in the UK has taken aim at a Black boy’s faded hairstyle that hides his traction alopecia and…
/ January 20, 2019
Georgia State
Georgia State is ranked as the top among not-for-profits awarding undergraduate degrees to African-Americans
/ August 24, 2018
Malik and Miles George thegrio.com
Demonstrating an example of Black Boy Joy, twins from New Jersey have been named valedictorians of their high school graduating
/ June 22, 2018
Howard University thegrio.com
[griojw id=”0NkBDoCD” playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] John Edgar Rush, a 26-year-old convicted sex offender, admitted to making online racial threats against Howard University
/ March 8, 2018
[griojw id=”1jI64192″ playerid=”GqX43ZoG”] Black History Month is all about celebrating our best and brightest for their history-making contributions to Black
/ February 15, 2018
Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber theGrio.com
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Princeton University professor canceled a course he teaches on cultural freedoms and hate speech after
/ February 14, 2018
Leigh Bishop theGrio.com
A pre-K teacher in Sugarland, Texas, went out of her way to show one of her four-year-old students just how beautiful…
/ February 6, 2018