[LA Times] Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to USC for a new academy that they say will give...
By Marc H. Morial NNPA Columnist “Raise your eyes now, and look from the place where you are…for all the land that you see I...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist African American students achieve at a different level than White students. Test scores are lower, as are high school and college...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist As New Year’s Eve countdowns wound down, many people turned to the familiar ritual of taking stock of where...
By Benjamin Todd Jealous NNPA Guest Columnist Every generation believes their children deserve to be better off than they were. This belief inspired the first slave...
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist About 4 million American children celebrated a very big milestone this fall—their first day of kindergarten. Far too many were...
By Wade Henderson NNPA Guest Columnist As our economy steadily improves and we look ahead to the next four years, it’s time to turn our attention...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Nearly 60 years after the historic Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision declared that the...
A labor of love came full circle Tuesday. Community members gathered to pay homage to a piece of local history during the unveiling of the county’s...
By Akeya Dickson Washington Correspondent NNPA News Service As the interest rates on higher education loans ratchet up higher and higher year to year, loan forgivingness...
[The Washington Post] For six years, their parents had nagged and prodded and pressed them to perform. Now this group of African American seniors in Loudoun...
[www.jbhe.com] Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina, has announced that Esther Terry has been appointed as interim president of the historically Black college. She...
With the 40th anniversary of Title IX just days away, one key area where questions about gender equity persist is STEM education and the under-representation of...
