Black students' reading proficiency is lowest of any racial group, with education reforms and poverty, trauma, and absenteeism being major barriers.

Sociologist Eve L. Ewing joins The Excerpt to discuss her new book “Original Sins,” which argues that schools enforce racial hierarchies.

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing ...

Tanisia Moore, a Birmingham mother of three, has turned her pandemic career change from attorney to children's author into a ...

Transplanting Canada’s game to Black America, Abercrombie avows, is “an opportunity to dream that could honestly be the only ...

Kanopy may be the best streamer that you may not have heard of. The platform has carved out a niche to serve colleges and ...

An Augusta native is now residing behind “the gates” of the fictional gated-community, Fairmont Crest. Actor Maurice Johnson ...

America’s divisions can roil even efforts for the common good, but my Maine firehouse is a testament to the power of unity ...

The race to lead the state education department pits the teachers union-backed incumbent, Jill Underly, against consultant ...

Every March for nearly a decade, Children’s Museum of Atlanta has built a suite of programming celebrating Women’s History Month, all designed for young people who may not yet know the meaning of ...

Applications open for Leadership NW Indiana program. The Leadership Institute at Purdue Northwest (PNW) has opened applications for the 2025-2026 Leadership Northwest Indiana (LNI ...