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Event 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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How 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...
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Why 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...
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5 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...
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Why 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...
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Where 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...
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Meet 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....
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Black 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...
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Preserving 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,...
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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...
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Black School Counselors Are a Necessity. We Don’t Have Enough
Gabrielle Brundidge knew she wanted to be a school guidance counselor since she was a teenager. The idea first came to her while discussing college plans with her guidance counselor, Ms. Garcia,...
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How Parents Can Advocate for Children With Disabilities
By Payton Aldridge Navigating the special education system can be overwhelming for many families. There’s a lot of unfamiliar terminology, meetings filled with professionals and decisions that...
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Pell Grant Cuts Helped Lower Black College Enrollment, Report Says
Years of inconsistent funding for the Pell Grant and state budget cuts played a role in a nearly half-million drop in the number of Black students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities over the...
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Education Dept. Thinks About Moving Special Ed Programs Elsewhere
The Education Department is looking to move its special education programs elsewhere, weeks after the Trump administration laid off nearly every staff member in the Office of Special Education...
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Study: Teacher Turnover Triggers More Suspensions for Black Students
Low pay and high stress — that combination alone drives many educators to a tough decision: resigning. Although we picture teachers sticking it out in the classroom until the end of the school year,...
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Black Students With Disabilities Could Lose a Lifeline
It might be harder for Black students with disabilities to get the support they need from the federal government after the Trump administration laid off nearly every worker inside the Education...
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There’s No Place Like Home: Why HBCU Homecoming Culture Still Matters
Each fall, a sacred migration unfolds. Black families pack their bags, college sweethearts reunite, DJs dust off Frankie Beverly, and grills fire up across campus yards from Howard to Hampton,...
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Why This National Book Award Finalist Wrote About Death for Kids
Death had been on author and poet Amber McBride’s mind for a while. In 2008, her father, Mario, had a near-death experience. Mario, who had prostate cancer, was scheduled for a simple surgery. But he...
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Don’t Let This Lifeline for Black Student Parents Disappear
Last month, Senator Tammy Duckworth and Representative Katherine Clark reintroduced the Child Care Access Means Parents in Schools (CCAMPIS) Reauthorization Act (CCAMPIS) Reauthorization Act to keep...
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The Disappearing Black School Board Member
School boards decide what kids get taught, how money is spent, and who gets hired to run a district. But a majority of the board members making those decisions don’t look like Black America. Indeed, a...
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