Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite and city teachers union President Jerry Jordan announced a campaign Tuesday to recruit minority teachers, especially African-American men, to help fill up to 1,200 vacancies.
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Highest Earning College Majors For African Americans
College Students who graduate with degrees in undergraduate college majors like pharmaceutical science and computer, chemical and industrial engineering tend to go on to earn high incomes over the course of their careers.
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Teachers Stage Sick-Out Causing Nearly 100 Detroit Public Schools to Close
More than 90 Detroit Public Schools are closed Monday due to “sickouts” led by the local teachers’ union.
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Historic African-American Schoolhouse
A one-room schoolhouse built in 1898 to educate the children of freed slaves opened as a museum in Jacksonville on Saturday. Its new home is Walter Jones Historical Park in Mandarin.
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Painting of College’s First African-American Graduate
A portrait of Richard Theodore Greener, the first African-American graduate of Harvard, has been unveiled and added to the Harvard Foundation’s portraiture collection.
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‘New Slaves’ Lets African-American
Sometimes, all it takes to help adapt to an unfamiliar world is talking it out with someone who shares the struggle.
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Aisha Tyler: African-American Teens Should “Be Brave”
“What would we be like if black people didn’t go into the heart and didn’t try to change things?” she asks.
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Mississippi Honors First African-American Woman
Ericka Wheeler, a Mississippi native and 2012 graduate of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, was named the first African-American woman in Mississippi to receive a Rhodes Scholarship, and on April 20, the Mississippi House of Representatives even stepped up to honor her accomplishments.
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Chicago Beyond Increases Opportunities for Youth Programs
When you feed a child’s mind, you feed their curiosity for limitless opportunities. Former principal and educator Liz Dozier understands this clearly as she’s tackled the challenges of the Chicago Public School system and helped high school students meet their academic goals.
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Kristin A. Turner: Harvard Black Law Students Association Elected
The membership of the Harvard Black Law Students Association has elected Kristin A. Turner, ’17, as its president. As the organization nears its 50th anniversary, Turner says she is committed to ushering the organization into a new age by “shaping its future while honoring its past.”
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