Urban Education

*A  University of Oklahoma fraternity was recently shut down and its members publicly blasted after a video surfaced showing fraternity members engaging in a racially...

*Before Prince was rocking an afro at appearances today, he had a bigger one as a teenager growing up in the 1970s. The throwback...

*Los Angeles The California African American Museum (CAAM) celebrates Women’s History Month by hosting a discussion with Edward Lewis, co-founder of Essence Magazine, Sunday, March 15, at 2 p.m. Moderated by television...

*The website Vulture has compiled a list of the ten most memorable comments uttered by Kanye West during his speech at Oxford University on...

*Dr. Roma Benjamin says enough is enough! Benjamin is a former principal of Rowland School in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and she is a youth literacy...

*Terrence J and Keshia Knight Pulliam spoke at the White House's "Champions of Change" event promoting college completion and success at historically black colleges and universities,...

*The Youth Empowerment Conference hosted by National Congress Of Black Women (NCBW-LAC) will be held on Saturday, March 28th from 8am-4pm at Mount Saint Mary's...

*LeBron James Jr. is already drawing interest from college programs despite being just 10 years old, and Papa James is pissed. "Yeah, he's already got...

  *Taylor Swift is making good on a promise she made last fall, to donate proceeds from her song "Welcome to New York" to the...

*I like the idea of local control of education. Each school district is a great deal more familiar about their student population than anyone...

*Hip-Hop pioneer Christopher “Play” Martin, of the iconic duo Kid ‘n Play (House Party franchise, Class Act), will address students at Full Sail University’s...

*TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) President Elmira Mangum, Ph.D., will launch her Presidential Lecture Series on Monday, Feb. 23 with...

*New York  – Continuing the Black History Month celebration, BET Networks returns with the eighth annual “The BET HONORS”to pay tribute to the contributions...

*The Gates Millennium Scholars Program (also known as the Bill Gates Scholarship) awards scholarships each year to African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific...

*As our nation observes Black History Month, I want to take a moment to reflect on the current state of education within the black...