The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) wants to see more done to restore and preserve historic buildings on traditionally Black campuses as “national treasures,” and it hopes the public will help press U.S. senators Wednesday for at least $5 million in funding toward the effort during National HBCU Week.
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I’ve been reporting on race for 40 years. Can we ever fix what’s broken?
“I can’t keep calm. I have a black son!”
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When For-Profit Colleges Prey on Unsuspecting Students
Without access to counseling in high school, many ambitious yet disadvantaged students still end up in schools where they’re most likely to drop out and accrue lots of debt.
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The NAACP opposes charter schools. Maybe it should do its homework
BEFORE NATIONAL board members of the NAACP gather in Cincinnati to decide whether to ratify a call for a moratorium on charter schools, they might want to do a little homework.
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Black Teachers Matter [Video]
America’s schools desperately need educators like Darlene Lomax. So why are we driving them away?
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Morris Brown College is surviving, hoping to thrive again
Alumni, friends, administration doing what they can until accreditation can be restored
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Why Several Native Americans Are Suing the Mormon Church
Participants in the Church-sponsored Indian Student Placement Program have filed at least three sexual-abuse lawsuits.
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Review: ‘Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,’ a Life Well Lived
“Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise” covers so much ground that it’s usually easy to forgive the filmmakers for not digging deeper. This is a documentary interested in breadth rather than depth, and on those terms it succeeds.
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Black-Owned Craft Beer Company Beat Out 13K Competitors to Win $200K Miller Lite ‘Tap the Future’ Prize
A Black female founder of a specialty beer company won the grand prize from the Miller Lite Tap the Future competition.
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African-American Museum Cafe Serves Up Black History With Every Forkful
The restaurant inside the new National Museum of African American History and Culture offers food that satisfies the hunger — and a space that satisfies the mind.
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