Natural Hair Thrives at a Harlem Afterschool Club
By Ariama C. Long The afro, bold and political like activist Angela Davis. Locs swinging free like Bob Marley. Black hair has a long storied history of effortlessly making a statement in its natural...
View ArticlePreserving Recipes: Zine-Making Keeps Gullah Geechee Culture Alive
At an archives in Charleston, South Carolina, one day last month, a group of high school students sat around a table, newspaper clippings scattered before them. The articles, some decades old,...
View ArticleBlack Press Week: Tradition, Technology, Rising Talent
By Kree Anderson As the nation navigates racial disparities, war in the Middle East and federal attacks on African American media makers, journalists, students, educators and justice leaders gathered...
View ArticleMeet the Women Educators Creating Space and Opportunity for Youth
By Tashi McQueen Black women are breaking barriers in education, from the stage to the classroom. Rosalind Cauthen, executive director of the Baltimore School for the Arts (BSA), and Dr. Nicol R....
View ArticleWhere Black Students Find Racial Healing on Campus
On many college campuses, Black students navigate racial stress without spaces designed to help them heal from it. So when those spaces do exist, Black students say they can be transformative. Black...
View ArticleWhy Black Communities Must Shape School Closure Decisions
President Obama, while on a podcast, discussed two competing narratives shaping American society. The narrative of hierarchy centers on exclusion — often by race and gender — while the narrative of...
View Article5 Black Poets For Students To Study And Know
It’s often called the voice of the human soul. It was a means of rebellion for Phyllis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, and Nikki Giovanni. And it’s the bedrock of rap music, often called “the CNN of the...
View ArticleWhy Black Superintendents Feel Pressure To Earn Doctorates For The Job
Dr. Aleesia Johnson had her sights set on earning her doctorate the moment she applied to be the Indianapolis Public Schools superintendent in 2018. As the first Black woman to lead Indiana’s largest...
View ArticleHow One Teacher’s Locs Changed Her Classroom
This story originally appeared in The Sacramento Observer. For years, Eghosa Obaizamomwan Hamilton believed she knew what a teacher was supposed to look like. For years, she regularly straightened her...
View ArticleEvent Replay: Is College Still Worth It?
While enrollment is declining at many four-year colleges, HBCUs are breaking enrollment records. But what does the future look like for college graduates as the U.S. grapples with AI in the workplace...
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