Education

Future
A student was overheard reciting lyric from rapper Future, but that made another feel threatened and it got him suspended,…
/ September 19, 2019
High School
The principal says she was barred from even attending her own child's elementary school graduation because the district was so…
/ July 25, 2019
New York
A program in the nation's largest school district is being criticized as "absurd" and is being challenged by parents and…
/ May 28, 2019
Graduation
Sharonda Wilson was set to receive her college degree, but chose to go to her son's. Hearing about this, university…
/ May 6, 2019
McGowan
Kellin McGowan is making history at St. Thomas High School and with a 4.57 GPA, he deserves all the accolades…
/ May 3, 2019
graduation thegrio.com
A Black woman last week filed a federal lawsuit against a Mississippi school district for naming a white male student…
/ May 1, 2019
Scholarship
Antoinette Love kept her focus on the books through her teen years and now it's paying off in the form…
/ April 25, 2019
Dress Code
A Houston high school principle is getting tough -- on parents and wants them to set an example in appearance…
/ April 24, 2019
Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, considered by some to be a classic and by others to be a racist diatribe,…
/ March 21, 2019
An uneasy reality has surfaced when it was found out the low number of Black students that were given entry…
/ March 19, 2019
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