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May 11, 2011
NORWALK, Conn. (AP) - She is charged with felony larceny for allegedly using her baby sitter's address to enroll her…
May 10, 2011
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - McDowell and Williams-Bolar are low-income black single mothers, a fact that disturbs civil rights activists who…
May 10, 2011
"Apparently he doesn't like educated African-Americans very much," Kevin Allen, a final four contestant on the series' second season, said…
May 10, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - While a handful of detractors call these ceremonies discriminatory, a large number of students and professors laud…
May 6, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Private employers shrugged off high gas prices and created 268,000 jobs -- the most since February 2006...
May 3, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A public school district in Mississippi and the federal government are divided over whether the schools…
May 2, 2011
OPINION - I have never met Kelley Williams or Tanya MacDowell. I know their stories not only because I read…
April 28, 2011
OPINION - We cannot grow stronger, richer and faster as a nation if we continue on this course of hate…
April 27, 2011
NORWALK, Conn.(AP) - Tanya McDowell was arrested April 14 on felony charges of committing and attempting to commit first-degree larceny...
April 27, 2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Eye-level watermarks, gutted buildings and rows of mobile classrooms linger as reminders of the flooding from…
April 23, 2011
OPINION - The United Negro College Fund and its Building Green at Minority Serving Institutions program shows that minority colleges…
April 21, 2011
OPINION - The irony is that the multicultural inclusiveness that is desired by colleges and universities is the same thing…
April 20, 2011
The charity named for the rapper Kanye West that was intended to reduce high school dropout rates has closed mysteriously...
April 18, 2011
VIDEO - Nationwide studies show that only 33 percent of 4th graders are proficient or better at reading. 22 percent…
April 7, 2011
OPINION - Over the years, as states escalated spending on prisons, funding for education suffered...
April 6, 2011
OPINION - The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's…
March 14, 2011
OPINION - Head Start, the popular preschool program serving nearly a million lower income children, has come under attack from…
March 10, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The president and first lady Michelle Obama convened a conference on preventing bullying Thursday...
March 9, 2011
DALLAS - North Dallas High School seniors held a vigil Tuesday night in support of their teachers, whose jobs may…
March 4, 2011
GAHANNA, Ohio (AP) - The mother of a black Ohio fifth grader assigned to play a slave for a social…