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The city of Detroit is taking extreme measures to get out of financial melee and closing half its schools...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Barriers often include lack of funds, fear of racism, worries about delayed graduation, and few role models…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The fight over the fate of 150,000 public school students has stirred long-festering emotions in Memphis…
VIDEO - The Akron, Ohio mom spent nine days in jail for falsifying records enrolling her daughters in Fairlawn-Copley School…
theGRIO REPORT - The newly recreated Conference of National Black Churches (CNBC) has made health one of their four key…
OPINION - Overt racist parties and incidents only bubble up when the covert racism on campus feels comfortable enough to…
Just four percent of students offered admission to seven specialized New York City public high schools were black. The percentage…
VIDEO - As Black History Month gets underway, one program in Chicago is helping to create a sense of confidence…
OPINION - Since the classroom and textbooks have been an imperfect way of educating students about African-American history, the future…
TheGrio's 100 - In 2009, with a deficit of $219 million, the Detroit Public School system was in a state…
TheGrio's 100 - If Jill Scott isn't recording or touring for a Grammy-award winning album, chances are the soulful songstress…
TheGrio's 100 - Inner-city students can go to college, and Roosevelt High School principal Terry Houston proves it every day...
TheGrio's 100 - Fed up with the troubled bureaucracy of inner-city schools, 25-year-old Teach for America alumnus Dominique Lee decided…
TheGrio's 100 - With a Harvard MBA and management experience at Disney and the NBA, Rice founded Management Leadership for…
TheGrio's 100 - In the face of looming budget cuts and daunting drop-out rates, Tamica Stubbs inspired her underprivileged Charlotte,…
TheGrio's 100 - A seasoned television news correspondent, Rehema Ellis has reported on everything from Obama's inauguration to Hurricane Katrina,…
TheGrio's 100 - Kittie Weston-Knauer, one of the first competitive female BMX racers in the United States, is no stranger…
TheGrio's 100 - President Obama set the goal for the U.S. to have the highest proportion of college graduates in…
TheGrio's 100 - Derrell Bradford's determination to give parents the freedom of school choice has made the former writer integral…