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Moving beyond rhetoric and aspirations, a report by the Center for the Study of HBCUs provides the Biden-Harris administration with a six-tiered proposal, fostering meaningful investment for HBCUs.

A detailed report released on Thursday by the NAACP's Legal Defense fund provides facts and figures, while also calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor.

A new report by the Thurgood Marshall Institute breaks it down.

Desegregation has stalled, showing growing disparities - especially for poor Black and Hispanic students.

Here’s some good news you probably won’t read a lot about: Black and Latino students have cut their dropout rates by more than half over the past ten years. Black students have nearly closed the gap with white students with just 8% leaving high school last year. According to a new Pew Research Center report, […]

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Why did a Lockport, New York police department describe a Black shooting suspect as “negro?” Shamir Allen, 19, was identified as such in a police form that asked officers to list his “complexion.” Local news station WGRZ-TV questioned the police department to determine why they’ve chosen not to retire the outdated, segregation-era description. SEE ALSO: Gun Shop Owner Denies Hiring George Zimmerman For […]

From the beginning, Ndamukong Suh has said he wants to stay in Detroit long-term and the Detroit Lions have said they want Suh in Detroit long-term.…

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A new report released Thursday found that, while black women are becoming a political and economic powerhouses, they’re still quite vulnerable in other respects. “Black Women in the United States, Progress and Challenges” examined data from the past six decades from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services, among […]

A recently released infographic by Good Magazine illustrates the growing acceptance of interracial marriage in America. According to the data, one in seven marriages in the U.S. are interethnic or interracial. Asians and Hispanics, two of the fastest growing immigrants communities, appear to be the most common groups to marry outside of their race. Among […]

A report from the United Nations indicates that 67 million kids around the world are not attending school. A big portion of that number is the 28 million children that are prevented as a result of armed conflicts.