Nationwide, 2 percent of public school teachers are African-American males
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Day First Woman to Earn Computer Science Ph.D. at N.C. A&T | North Carolina A&T University
Day, received her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Winston-Salem State University, where Elva Jones, one of the first black women to earn a doctorate in computer science, mentored her.
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Duke University Instructor Jaki Shelton Green Becomes 1st African American Woman to be Named North Carolina’s Poet Laureate | Good Black News
“Jaki Shelton Green brings a deep appreciation of our state’s diverse communities to her role as an ambassador of North Carolina literature. Jaki’s appointment is a wonderful new chapter in North Carolina’s rich literary history.”
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Trump Administration Reverses Obama on Affirmative Action | The New York Times
The Trump administration will encourage the nation’s school superintendents and college presidents to adopt race-blind admissions standards, abandoning an Obama administration policy that called on universities to consider race as a factor in diversifying their campuses, administration officials said.
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How to prepare your kids for jobs that don’t exist yet | Fast Company
Artificial Intelligence will rule the jobs of the future, so learning how to work with it will be key. But the skills needed might not be what you expect.
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‘It’s like a black and white thing’: How some elite charter schools exclude minorities | NBC News
Loose laws let scores of charters create policies that favor white students.
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Alabama HBCU Apologizes 58 Years After Expelling 9 Students for Sit-In Protest | Atlanta Black Star
“What happened to these individuals, these students and the faculty, in my mind, is a crime.”
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The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement | The Atlantic
Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.
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Black higher education after the Civil War | The Weekly Challenger
In “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans,” initially published in 1947, John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., examined the history of Negro education during and after the Reconstruction era.
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The Radical Self-Reliance of Black Homeschooling | The Atlantic
Some black parents see teaching their own children as a way of protecting them from the racial disparities of the American education system.
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