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U.S. Education Department issues guidance on racial disparity in nation’s schools - The Washington Post : The Obama administration issued ne...

Prince George’s NAACP opposes schools for English-language learners - The Washington Post : The Prince George’s County branch of the NAACP i...

Interview: Jeff Hobbs, Author Of 'The Short And Tragic Life Of Robert Peace' : NPR : On a May night in 2011, a man was murdered — sh...

Texas' New Public School Textbooks Promote Climate Change Denial and Downplay Segregation | Mother Jones : The battle over Texas textboo...

The Only One: A Talk With Shonda Rhimes : Monkey See : NPR : I saw Shonda Rhimes at a panel presentation at the Television Critics Associati...

Adding Color To 'The Great White Way' : Code Switch : NPR : Sharp observations about race, class and gender plus pure passion for th...

Coming Soon, a Century Late: A Black Film Gem - NYTimes.com : For decades, the seven reels from 1913 lay unexamined in the film archives of ...

Examining Bill Cosby's Legacy As 'The Cosby Show' Turns 30 : Code Switch : NPR : The Cosby Show celebrates its 30th birthday on ...

Jacqueline Woodson On Being A 'Brown Girl' Who Dreams : Code Switch : NPR : The first time author Jacqueline Woodson says she really...

Stanford professor wins MacArthur 'genius grant' for racial awareness studies - San Jose Mercury News : America is pushing forward i...

‘A National Admissions Office’ for Low-Income Strivers - NYTimes.com : Arianna Trickey was opening a piece of mail in her bedroom during jun...

BBC News - The photographer who rejected racism in the American south : At the turn of the 20th Century, life was incredibly difficult for t...

For HBCUs, Investing in Education Abroad a Key to Marketplace Success - Higher Education : The numbers show how under-represented students o...

Army commanders: White men lead a diverse force : WASHINGTON — Command of the Army's main combat units — its pipeline to top leadership ...

Rastafarian High School Student Sent Home From School For Ten Days For Having Dreadlocks | ThinkProgress : Legal experts are coming to the d...

Preserving Black History, Americans Care For National Treasures At Home : NPR : In a hall inside the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in ...

Sagging Pants And The Long History Of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion : Code Switch : NPR : Mary Sue Rich finally had enough. The cou...

Two Howard County students show up to school draped with Confederate flags - The Washington Post : Days after a Howard County student unfurl...

This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Music. : NPR Ed : NPR : Musical training doesn't just improve your ear for music, it also help...

For Small Police Departments, Increasing Diversity Is a Struggle - NYTimes.com : MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio — This working-class Cleveland suburb h...

Minorities face disproportionate ‘Broken Windows’ enforcement everywhere — especially in white neighborhoods - NY Daily News : For some Ne...

Q&A: One Student's Educational Saga In New Orleans : NPR Ed : NPR : This year, NPR Ed is reporting on the dramatic changes in the Ne...

Misty Copeland On Broadening 'Beauty' And Being Black In Ballet : Code Switch : NPR : For ballerina Misty Copeland, the role of the ...

When white friends don’t believe what blacks go through, they’re not friends - The Washington Post : I still remember it perfectly, more tha...

Syracuse University Suspends Women’s Soccer Player for Slur - Higher Education : SYRACUSE, N.Y. ― Syracuse University has suspended a women’...

Black Diversity in Higher Ed? We are Not There Yet - Higher Education : Yearly, the U.S. becomes more culturally diverse than ever before. W...

Black Women Find a Growing Business Opportunity: Care for Their Hair - NYTimes.com : Not much seems unusual about Judian and Kadeian Brown’s...

This football season, let's wipe 'Redskins' from our vocabulary | MSNBC : Today, Americans will huddle around TV screens, don te...

Interview: Laila Lalami, Author Of 'The Moor's Account' : NPR : In the spring of 1528, a crew of 600 Spanish and Portuguese sold...

  Slavery: Why the Economist panned my book (Opinion) - CNN.com : Edward E. Baptist, an associate professor of history at Cornell Univers...

Crime, Bias and Statistics - NYTimes.com : Discussions of the relationship between blacks and the criminal justice system in this country to...

Scenes From The Ferguson We Didn't See On TV : Code Switch : NPR : Before I went to Ferguson, Mo., to cover the aftermath of the Michael...

What's Your Take On #NPRTheTalk? : Code Switch : NPR : In the weeks since the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, M...

Does It Matter That Rosie Perez Is The First Latina Co-Host Of 'The View'? : Code Switch : NPR : he View just made history in naming...

At 11, Marquis Govan Has Some Things To Say About Ferguson : NPR : The St. Louis County Council convened for a regular meeting on Aug. 19. I...

Influx of African Immigrants Shifting National and New York Demographics - NYTimes.com : Threatened with arrest in 2009, Lamin F. Bojang fle...

The Man Who Made The Spanish-Speaking World Laugh : Alt.Latino : NPR : On Alt.Latino, we constantly ask what it means to be Latino. What do ...

Active Role in Class Helps Black and First-Generation College Students, Study Says - NYTimes.com : The trend away from classes based on read...

The Race Gap in America’s Police Departments - NYTimes.com : n hundreds of police departments across the country, the percentage of whites o...

Diverse Conversations: Effective Fundraising for Higher Education - Higher Education : In these difficult economic times, fundraising is cha...

Gentlemen, Preschool Is Calling : NPR Ed : NPR : Glenn Peters knew he would be in the minority when he started training to teach preschool...

Jesse Jackson targets Amazon.com over diversity : SAN FRANCISCO -- Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling on Amazon.com to release its work force div...

He Dropped One Letter In His Name While Applying For Jobs, And The Responses Rolled In : His name is José Zamora, and he had a routine. Du...

In an effort to improve the educational outcomes for boys and young men of color, a group of well-known education professors released a re...

WASHINGTON — In order for the Obama administration’s proposed college ratings system to be fair, the system must take into account the diffe...

Minority students create college support systems : Less than nine of every 100 undergraduate students on Purdue University’s West Lafayette ...

Duke students take "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" photo for Ferguson | The Chronicle : Several student organizations on campus are ma...

STEM-Focused Educational and Occupational Opportunities are Important for Latino Youth: Here's Why : Business : Latin Post : STEM-focuse...

Hands up: Howard U. photo of students in solidarity goes viral : A photo of black students with their hands raised is becoming a symbol of s...

Hispanic Network awards 27 scholarships : Twenty-seven Napa County students, including 17 Napa-area high school graduates, will receive Napa...

Holder tells Ferguson students he was a victim of racial profiling | TheHill : FERUGUSON, Mo. — Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to...

Latino Farmworker College Students Get Crucial Career Boost - NBC News.com : Yonny Castillo, 21, began working in the fields with his family...

L.A. School Discipline Reforms Praised By Latino Educators, Experts - NBC News.com : On Tuesday afternoon the Los Angeles Unified School Dis...

Inspiring Latino youth at MANOS | Mountain Xpress : The years spent in middle school and high school are challenging for most youth. But for...

Schools in Ferguson, Mo., Suspend Black Students at Higher Rates Than Their Peers - Rules for Engagement - Education Week : Black people in ...

Appleton suspends more black students than whites : African-American students are suspended at a much higher rate than their white counter...

For the first time this year, most public school students are nonwhite - Vox : Nonwhite students are projected to outnumber white students i...

Catholic Leaders Are Hoping Latinos Can Save Struggling Parochial Schools | Fox News Latino : NEW YORK – For more than 130 years, sitting j...

Black students receive majority of tickets in South Bend schools - South Bend Tribune: Education : African-American students in South Bend s...

Report: 1 in 3 black students chronically absent from school One in three black students was chronically absent from school during the 201...

Joint performance gives white, black students a lesson in race relations - Houston Chronicle : Earlier this summer, as violence in a St. Lou...

SRJC lands federal grant to aid Latino, low-income | The Press Democrat : Santa Rosa Junior College will soon roll out a new program to boos...