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The Houston Independent School District, which serves a disproportionate number of Black and brown students, will be converting libraries at 28 schools into detention centers.

With Harvard's legacy admissions being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education, here's how PWI family ties differ from HBCUs'.

Addressing out the inaccuracies in Florida's "slaves benefited from slavery" narrative, while noble and truthful, is, in many ways, besides the point.

PragerU is a right-wing organization founded by a suspected white supremacist.

Some feel “underappreciated and overstretched," a new report found.

Opinion

Truly, this new level of legislative zeal in rewriting history is astonishing.

In an example of "cancel culture" hypocrisy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who opposes Black history being taught in schools, is mad Jason Aldean's lynch-happy music video has been dropped.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Education approved new standards that teach slaves benefited from slavery.

Florida’s newly approved curriculum for teaching Black history whitewashes slavery, critics said after officials adopted the studies program.

Ta-Nehisi Coates attended a South Carolina school board meeting about ending an AP lesson on his own bestseller, 'Between the World and Me.'

Kirk, a community college dropout, thinks prominent Black women like Michelle Obama and Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't have "the brain processing power" to get into good schools without affirmative action.

The Biden Administration announced that it plans to automatically forgive $39 billion in student debt for 804,000 borrowers.