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Black excellence?: How a school abused Black students & got fame for sending them to Ivy Leagues

Trayvon Martin’s brother Jahvaris Fulton graduates from college

Low-income students get a little help with college loans

Student who went to MIT at 14 still shines today

From foster care to full scholarship: the story of Tyree Grant

D.C. twins graduate at the top of their class

Homeless teen graduates at top of class, earns full ride to Georgetown

Robin Roberts to receive Walter Cronkite Award for Journalism Excellence this fall

Meet Audra McDonald, Broadway’s biggest Tony Award winner of all time

Former gang member earns degree, among school’s first graduating class

Former Spelman co-valedictorians continue to succeed with self-help book

20-year-old Chicago native accepted into Harvard Ph.D. program

Father graduates from college with son

Meet Patrick Peoples, the latest teen to get accepted into several Ivy League schools

Oakland senior’s 5.0 GPA lands him several college acceptance letters

New York student accepted into all 8 Ivy League schools

For fourth straight year, Chicago high school graduates all college-bound

Walmart donates $1.75M towards black achievement

Former NFL prospect Myron Rolle to become neurosurgeon

Young man seeks to inspire, provide resources to college students with new book

Video: Out of 21 siblings, man becomes the first to graduate college

First black president in school’s history appointed to Ohio State University

Chicago high school seniors bring in $12.5 million in college scholarship offers in a single day

Mississippi State’s Donald M. ‘Field’ Brown named Rhodes Scholar

Black men are big stars of the BCS football series, not so much in the classroom

Survey: Life of today’s millennial of color more complex than assumed

Fellowship seeks to improve lives of black males, apply today!

Author James McBride takes home National Book Award

Dante de Blasio, Malia Obama among TIME’s ‘Most Influential Teens of 2013’

11-year-old author honored at Black Girls Rock awards ceremony

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