Christina and Renee Ellis, students at Central York High School, a predominantly white school in Pennsylvania, helped reverse a book ban targeting the work of Black authors.. For about a month ...

The single most devastating statistic in American life is this: The average black high school senior reads at the level of the average white eighth-grader.

— Jackson Lee Bryant, high-school teacher; Lexington, South Carolina I am looking forward to sharing one of my personal favorite books, Their Eyes Were Watching God , by Zora Neal Hurston.

The black high school in Panama City, Rosenwald High, was named in honor of Julius Rosenwald. Unfortunately, as an unintended consequence of integration, Rosenwald High was closed in 1967.

Hagopian, who teaches ethnic studies at Seattle’s Garfield High School, is a member of the national Black Lives Matter at School steering committee and an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine.

Moore, 74, is a graduate of the Hooper-Renwick school, the only high school in Gwinnett County for Black students until integration in the 1967-68 academic year. The school closed in 1969.

“This book,” writes Hurd, director of Prairie View A&M’s Texas Institute for the Preservation of History and Culture, “is about ‘black folks’ who coached and played high school ...

In 1961, Hamilton Park High School, an all-Black school in Richardson ISD, won the city's first state football championship, in what was then called the Prairie View Interscholastic League. Author ...

The nation's first black public high school, Paul Laurence Dunbar High, opened its doors in Washington, D.C., in 1870. But more than 140 years later, Dunbar — like many urban schools — has ...

One late-summer afternoon in 1994, Renee Moore—an English teacher at the nearly all-black East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi—received a phone call. On the other line was a friend ...

Hundreds of students, parents and residents in York County, Pa., protested limits on books told from the perspective of gay, Black and Latino children. By Isabella Grullón Paz and Maria Cramer ...