Baltimore school board to name art gallery, high school spaces in honor of Black artists and scientists
Baltimore City Public Schools seeks to name parts of a high school and the school district’s central art gallery after Black ...
‘Black Bag’ Is a Great Spy Thriller — and an Even Better Marriage Drama
Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender are spies, spouses, and agency-scandal suspects in Steven Soderbergh's sensational riff on love and espionage.
The Supreme Court case that ended the dream of racially integrated schools in America
The Supreme Court’s most enduring ruling on race is not 1954’s Brown vs. Board of Education but a 1974 decision, Milliken v.
Review: What were the secret schools that helped prepare Black people to vote?
If there were any doubts about the human capacity to marginalize and suppress, Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom” is an excellent reminder. From the lead-up to 1954 — when the U.S. Supreme Court handed ...
A Black educator was hired to reform a school that held a mock slave auction. It was a racist nightmare, she says
A Black educator was hired to reform a school that held a mock slave auction. It was a racist nightmare, she says - Exclusive ...
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Woodland Park Magnet School Celebrates Black History Month
Woodland Park Magnet School held its annual Black History Program Feb. 21 showcasing students' talents and honoring the ...
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Aurelius Martinez, first Black student to step foot in Baton Rouge High School, dies at 78
Martinez died Feb. 11 in Los Angeles at 78. He was a retired respiratory therapist. He led first group of Black students into ...
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Chicago Public Schools’ Black student success plan hit with federal legal challenge
As Chicago Public Schools on Friday celebrated the launch of a plan intended to improve academic outcomes for Black students, a national group filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of ...
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With threats to diversity in schools, are Black male teachers in jeopardy?
Once dominant voices in education, Black men have become an anomaly in the field, making up just 1.3% of public school teachers in the National Center for Education Statistics' National Teacher and ...
How HISD's Parker Elementary became a hotbed for developing jazz musicians, composers — and Beyoncé
Parker Elementary-which Beyoncé once attended- is the only elementary invited to a choral conference this spring, thanks to its Grammy-winning longtime teacher.
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Saluting the life of Robert Robinson Taylor for Black History Month
February is Black History Month and KTBS 3/KPXJ CW 21 continue to salute the contributions of African Americans in labor with the help of Bossier Parish high school students. Robert Robinson ...
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Commemorating Black History Month in schools is tricky for many teachers this year
ARENA: Partridge has been a pre-K teacher for 20 years, and the Black history museum she spearheaded for the school has exhibits for the students. There's a music section, a hair salon and plenty ...