By Elizabeth Todd-Breland “I wanted to reach out to you to thank and encourage you to continue to speak out against border-jumping families.” This was the message delivered from a former Little League official to Chris Janes, the white Vice President of the Evergreen Park Athletic Association who accused Jackie Robinson West’s all-black Chicago youth […]
Should HBCUs  be tuition-free? Howard University President Dr. Wayne Frederick believes that the President Obama should take his free community college proposal a step further by including historically black colleges and universities. “The students who come to Howard represent those from the lower socio-economic status in our undergrad population. If we don’t have the historically black colleges […]
Parents and students at Howard University Middle School of Mathematics and Science (MS)², a charter school located on the campus of the historic HBCU, say that the principal fired teachers for teaching black history. Today middle school students held a protest to demand changes to the curriculum.Â
White millennials are more prejudice than they’d like to think writes Al Jazeera.
Marissa Alexander, the Florida woman sentenced to prison for firing warning shots during a dispute with her abusive ex-husband, has finally been released from prison.
Black women in the study recalled being regularly mistaken for janitors and were constantly worried about the “angry black female” stereotype.
New York Times columnist, Charles Blow, received the phone call he had always dreaded. His son was held by gunpoint on Yale’s campus.
High-achieving low-income students of color are being boxed out of CUNY, New York’s city colleges.
Kendrick Lamar’s recent comments about respectability politics in the Black community sparked twitter outrage and a war of words amongst several of his Hip Hop contemporaries. I weigh in on the situation. Enjoy!
For the Guardian, Hannah Giorgis writes that online communities became her de-facto mental health support after she was failed by her university’s services.
Yesterday, President Obama proposed making community college free for those “who are willing to work for it.”
Thanks to twenty-seven prominent movers and shakers, 27,000 NYC 7th, 8th and 9th graders will be able to see ‘Selma’ for free, reports Variety.
