Education

Beloved young Chicago Principal Rob Croston passed away after complications from genetic disorder

3 tips for dealing with mental health issues exacerbated by anti-Blackness on college campuses

Hampton University students protest sexual assault, unsanitary dining conditions

Congressional empathy for post-Katrina communities? Budget deal provides loan forgiveness to 4 affected HBCUs

NABJ partners with Facebook to offer scholarship opportunities for Black student journalists

Anti-Blackness in preschool classrooms: Combatting conditioning early to save our kids

New Jersey program shows how training teachers of color in science inspires future scientists of color

White supremacists are targeting colleges for racist proliferation and footholds

“I’m is talking right”: How the stigma around Black language holds us back from liberation

U.S. spends more on healthcare, is still learning from Cuban experts how to curb infant mortality

New Vox report shows how gerrymandering segregates school districts to benefit white pupils

Study connects sound racial identity with positive academic performance for Black girls

Kids are freezing in Baltimore schools because Black children are viewed as disposable

Report: Robots in the workforce are accelerating pay gaps for women and people of color

Don’t touch our hair: In hilarious online game ‘Hair Nah’, Black folk’s hair is off limits

Harvard announces Gullah language course as part of its African Language Program

New book from Zora Neale Hurston about the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade to be released in 2018

High school senior creates CopStop app to help youth with police encounters

Google to give $1.5 million to SocialWorks, Chance the Rapper’s youth charity, & Chicago Public Schools

Learning to love myself as a Black queer man in a Black Greek Letter Organization

‘Families of Chicago’ to host a safe space for LGBTQ people of color with 2nd annual holiday banquet

Decolonizing Black intellectualism: How society’s ideas around knowledge leave some Black people behind

There’s an app to help Black teenage girls deal with stress

‘Tell Them We Are Rising’ documentary centering nation’s HBCUs to air in February 2018

Trailblazing journalist Gwen Ifill to be honored with a media and arts program bearing her name

Who owns the Black experience?: Decolonizing theory & how the academy commodifies Black life

Spelman and Morehouse go on hunger strikes to improve food access for student populations

Study: Millennials think Black people experience the most discrimination, but have political power near whites

Super Soaker creator Lonnie Johnson helps teens pursue their STEM dreams

How you can make your own education when college isn’t an option

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