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50 years after desegregation order, how do Boston schools teach it?
GBH News· 12 hours agoThis week marks 50 years since U.S. District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. issued a decision...
More Black and Latino Students Admitted to New York’s Elite High Schools
New York Times· 20 hours agoThe percentage of Black and Latino students in the eight schools increased modestly to 12 percent,...
Out of Bounds: The history of African Americans and golf in Memphis explained
Gannett via AOL· 2 hours agoHistorians cite three main reasons for the failure of Reconstruction: convict leasing,...
South Carolina quietly canceled AP African American Studies. We wanted to know why.
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBy codifying white supremacy as property law, South Carolina’s Negro Act of 1740 set the template...
How Boston's Eliot School desegregated — and resegregated
WBUR Boston· 1 day agoBy many measures, the Eliot K-8 Innovation School is a notable bright spot for Boston Public Schools...
Boston School Committee slated to vote Monday on closing its last middle school, renaming Burke High...
The Boston Globe· 2 days agoThe Boston School Committee is expected to vote Monday night on closing its last middle school and consolidating an early learning center into another & ...
Built 104 years ago, historic Black Charlotte school begins its new life Saturday
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 5 days agoHowever, the school was not built under the Rosenwald fund, which built schools and colleges for...
Legendary Fort Worth basketball coach Robert Hughes dies at age 96
Fox local via AOL· 7 days agoHe began his coaching career at I.M. Terrell High School in Fort Worth in 1963, leading teams to...
'We were fighting for our life': Former Boston Public Schools student, teacher reflect on busing, 50...
WBUR Boston· 2 days agoOn June 21, 1974, federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity ordered Boston Public Schools to desegregate....
FOR THE YOUNG SCHOLARS: Horace Mann Transitional Class of ’72 hosts Hawkins scholarships program |...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 3 days agoA near-capacity crowd came out to see eight recent high school honor graduates receive their...