by Grace Deng | Feb 22, 2022 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON—At 3 a.m. on the first day of Black History Month, Spelman College, an Atlanta-based HBCU, received its second bomb threat of the year. Six hours later, Spelman junior Sophia Parker found out about the threat through an email sent by the school. At noon,...
by Rayna Song | Oct 21, 2021 | Education
WASHINGTON – More than 100 students have been sleeping inside and outside the Blackburn University Center at Howard University, demanding student representation and better housing conditions. The sit-in started after the self-titled “Blackburn takeover...
by Ben Kamisar | Mar 6, 2012 | Education
WASHINGTON — Almost 60 years after the Supreme Court ruling that abolished legal segregation in public education, black and Hispanic students still face disproportionate access to rigorous courses and troubling levels of discipline in the classroom, according to a...
