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How school choice policies evolved from supporting Black students to subsidizing middle-class families

Originally developed as a tool to help Black children attend better schools, school voucher programs now serve a different purpose. Drazen via Getty Images by...

5-week-old Black twins become youngest known victims of Hurricane Helene

A Georgia mother and five-week-old twins were killed in the devastation of Hurricane Helene. According to TODAY, 27-year-old Kobe Williams and her sons, Khyzier and...

Voting rights at risk after Supreme Court makes it harder to challenge racial gerrymandering

Taiwan Scott, who sued South Carolina over a new congressional map he said curbed Black voting power, speaking outside the Supreme Court in 2023....

The most important voice on Beyoncé’s new album

by William Nash, Middlebury One of the most impressive parts of Beyoncé’s new album, “Cowboy Carter,” is her roster of collaborators, which includes rising country...

Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students

by Christine Wen, Texas A&M University; Danielle McLean, The Conversation; Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder, and Nathan Jensen, The University of Texas at...

Nikki Haley slammed for not listing slavery as cause of Civil War

GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley is facing backlash for omitting slavery as a cause of the Civil War. During a New Hampshire town hall on...

International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C., pays new respect to the enslaved Africans who landed on its docks

One of the exhibits of notable Black people on display at International African American Museum. courtesy of v2com/International African American Museum by Bernard Powers, College of...

For Republican presidential hopefuls, Iowa is still the first political beauty contest

by Steffen W. Schmidt, Iowa State University The Democratic National Committee may have dethroned the Iowa caucuses as kingmaker in its presidential nominating process, but...

The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before it ended with Brown v. Board

Millicent Brown, left, was one of the first two Black students to integrate a South Carolina public school, in September 1963. AP Photo Roy Jones, Clemson...

FEMA changing rules that deprive African Americans of crucial aid

The guidelines denied aid to many African American applicants whose homes or land were inherited informally without written wills. By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior...

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