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In the spring of 2020, a video of George Floyd being murdered by a Minneapolis police officer went viral. And then — something unprecedented happened: millions filled the streets, marching and ...

"Girlfriends" creator Mara Brock Akil adapted the teen love story from author Judy Blume's popular 1975 novel.

Restoration work is breathing new life into a historic school in a small Lake County community that was established as one of thousands of centers of learning for Black children during segregation.

A white couple from West Virginia were collectively sentenced to 375 years in prison for forcing their five adopted black children to work on their ... farm people that do farm chores,” Plants ...

A white West Virginia couple has been sentenced to hundreds of years in prison after being found guilty of forcing their Black adopted children to work as slaves ... Children, I do love you ...

Nakia Bowling founded an after-school program that ... Bowling said doing her nonprofit work gives her the same rush she got when writing about Black communities in Miami.

A study by economists shows a wide gap between the kinds of math problems kids who work in retail markets do well and the kinds of problems kids in school do well. In India, many kids who work in ...

WSMV4 Investigates found that school removals like this are part of a larger trend. The most recent state data shows, that in certain districts, Black children ... districts to do so and publicly ...

The Williamsburg Bray School will open its doors to the public as a historical education site next spring. The oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children ... Their work has revealed original ...

Black parents are sharing their stories of how their children ... Virginia’s school systems are so far removed from the Civil Rights Movement, today’s administrators do not know how to handle ...

This is not due to a lack of willingness but results from demanding work schedules ... trying to remove Black history from school curriculums. At the same time, they want our kids to learn about ...