LOS ANGELES — Dozens of demonstrators started a 50-mile march Monday, calling for reforms in education and juvenile justice systems.

St. Louis — When the U.S. Department of Education announced it would provide stimulus funds to boost the nation’s “persistently lowest-achieving schools,” it expected results.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, trying to boost anemic job creation and improve testy relations with the corporate community, said Wednesday he wants ideas from business leaders on to “seize the promise of this moment.”

New Jersey — A New Jersey state legislator wants to give parents the power to pull the “trigger” on failing schools in a bill he introduced Monday. In his proposed Parent Employment and Choice Act, also known as “the parent trigger,” Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R., Monmouth) wants to enable parents of children in low-performing schools […]

Texas — White schoolchildren in Texas continue to outperform their peers in reading and math, but black and Hispanic students slowly are making gains to close the gap in test scores, according to a national study being released today.

Virginia — U.S. for-profit colleges are like subprime mortgage lenders, targeting low-income and minority students by “peddling access to the American dream but delivering little more than crippling debt,” a report said. Low-income students make up half of the enrollment at for- profit colleges and minorities comprise 37 percent, the Washington-based Education Trust said, citing […]

One thing NewsOne readers love talking about is HBCU’s. Many of you are HBCU graduates and we wanted to ask you your opinion on who holds the title of best HBCU. Do you agree with the US News rankings below? #1 Spelman #2 Howard #3 Morehouse #4 Hampton #5 Tuskegee #6 Xavier of Louisiana #7 […]

New York–An underground ad campaign for Diddy’s new album had some Manhattan commuters doing double takes Tuesday morning.

WASHINGTON — Staring at a Jan. 1 deadline, the Senate is poised Wednesday to pass legislation that would spare taxpayers at every income level from a significant rate increase.

Cincinnati — Receiver Terrell Owens says the Cincinnati Bengals’ lousy season is the result of underachieving “from the top down,” and he particularly points a finger at the coaches.

WASHINGTON – With small business owners and entrepreneurs in traditionally underserved communities continuing to face challenges accessing capital, the U.S. Small Business Administration today announced two new initiatives aimed at increasing SBA-backed loans to small businesses in these markets. SBA Administrator Karen Mills also today named Catherine L. Hughes, chairperson and founder of Radio One, […]

New Jersey — After MSNBC host Chris Matthews made some fat joke about obese New Jersey Republican Governor, Chris Chrsitie, Fox News Host Neil Cavuto compared Matthews’ fat jokes to racism. “Judging our leaders not by the qualities that matter, but the nonsense like this that does not – where greatness is defined not by […]