This week, 60 Minutes reported on St. Mary's Academy, a Catholic school for young Black women in New Orleans, Louisiana. Correspondent Bill Whitaker met two former students, Calcea Johnson and Ne ...

NEW ORLEANS — The two women and St. Mary’s Academy graduates who used trigonometry to prove the 2000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem math equation, had their findings confirmed by the math ...

NEW ORLEANS — St. Mary’s Academy received the first of ten $100K checks from former NBA star and sports commentator Charles Barkley last Friday. “We are forever grateful for Mr. Barkley’s ...

The nationally recognized academy, which has seen graduating classes with a 100% college acceptance rate, seeks an endowment of $1 billion. St. Mary’s Academy, a Catholic institution dedicated ...