ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court decision Tuesday upholding the state’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions...
[Politico] The Supreme Court’s decision upholding Michigan’s affirmative-action ban was far from a shock, but it generated considerable strife on the high court, producing five different...
[The Washington Post] Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s fierce defense of the affirmative action efforts such as the ones that helped move her from a Bronx housing project...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A state’s voters are free to outlaw the use of race as a factor in college admissions, the Supreme...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions. The...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an effort to address persistent, racial disparities in science and engineering careers, educators and community...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Millennials are easy to spot. They’re the ones welded to their handheld devices, touting peculiar professional...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the 60th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education approaches, a...
JEFF AMY, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A national fraternity group has closed its University of Mississippi chapter after three members were accused of...
[BBC] Children who are bullied can still experience negative effects on their physical and mental health more than 40 years later, say researchers from King’s College...
[ProPublica] Though James Dent could watch Central High School’s homecoming parade from the porch of his faded-white bungalow, it had been years since he’d bothered. But...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Calculate the foreign exchange rate a vacationing American would pay in India. Estimate from a random sample the...
DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Survivors, first responders and relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversary Tuesday with tributes...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In 1965, Tuskegee Institute in Alabama was a hotbed for social protest and bred students passionate about...
Patterned after I, Too, Am Harvard By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – If anyone thought the election of Barack Obama, or the rise of...
BILL DRAPER, Associated Press OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Kansas prosecutors filed state-level murder charges Tuesday against the white supremacist accused in shootings that left three...
KIMBERLY HEFLING, AP Education Writer BALTIMORE (AP) — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore...
JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Singer and activist Harry Belafonte will get to keep three of Martin Luther King’s documents that the King...
JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after hailing the Civil Rights Act as a lasting legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency, President Barack...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Despite great progress that grew out of the Civil Rights Movement, “a web of stubborn obstacles remains”...
By George E. Curry NNPA Editor-in-Chief WILMINGTON, N.C. (NNPA) – Howard University Journalism Professor Clint C. Wilson II’s broad criticism of the Black Press proves that...
JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — From the day of his 1989 arrest in a deadly New York City shooting, Jonathan Fleming said he...
[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution] Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, his sons, Martin Luther King III and Dexter Scott King say...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a concerted election-year push to draw attention to women’s wages, President Barack Obama signed...
