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March 24, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Industry lobbyists have watched helplessly as Democrats and the Obama administration this week appear on the verge…
February 24, 2010
VIDEO - Tthe Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School at…
February 3, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - People in his Jacksonville, Florida home are calling him the "next Charles Drew"...
February 1, 2010
TheGrio's 100 - John Jackson was twelve years old when he moved from Chicago to the suburbs and saw a…
January 18, 2010
VIDEO - This economics major went from a classroom to a one-room tent--literally overnight.
December 30, 2009
HAMPTON -- The National Science Foundation is giving Hampton University $1.4 million to recruit more minority students into the fields…
December 21, 2009
OPINION - For the NCAA, the educational mission of their professional sports league is one of the great scams of…
December 16, 2009
OPINION - During the civil rights movement, black students required military escorts just to go to school. Back then, the…
December 14, 2009
OPINION - Ukraine is not the first country that comes to mind for many African students wanting to study abroad,…
November 24, 2009
OPINION - Predicating students' (most of them black) educational achievement on bodily appearance threatens to undo many of the positive…
October 30, 2009
VIDEO - Seven-year old Chisano Mutts is lucky to be alive after he was dragged nearly a block by his…
October 28, 2009
Students from Washington University in St. Louis raised civil rights complaints against a popular Chicago nightclub.
October 28, 2009
VIDEO - Players on a Michigan high school football team have thrown in their jerseys - literally - after an…
October 22, 2009
VIDEO - A Texas prosecutor says two men convicted of capital murder in Dallas County 12 years ago are expected…
October 19, 2009
VIDEO - As suspects in the beating death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert appear in court Monday, experts continue to question…
October 14, 2009
VIDEO - In an age where technology is so much a part of our lives, many say the U.S. education…
October 13, 2009
VIDEO - Nearly 60 children went to Detroit's McFarlane Elementary school Monday morning, only to be sent home because there…
October 6, 2009
VIDEO - The 'Knowledge is Power Program,' KIPP for short, serves 20,000 K through 12th grade students in 82 public…
September 24, 2009
VIDEO - Nearly half of the HIV patients in America are African-American, and many are familiar with the shameful stigma…
September 22, 2009
OPINION - Access to higher education should not be for just the privileged, it should be affordable and available to…