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Should a white majority sign off on affirmative action policy?
8:17 AM on 07/05/2011
OPINION - Are African-Americans, Latinos and other racial minorities unduly hurt by the referendum process, when the public policy is focuses on them?...
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NAACP wages civil war over charter schools
8:01 AM on 06/07/2011
OPINION - The latest frontline of the public school vs. charter school battlefield is happening in the most famous African-American neighborhood in the United States, Harlem, New York...
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How we can tweet for education
8:41 AM on 06/03/2011
OPINION - What if we moved from the fun and scandalous, and actually used Twitter to do something useful?
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Why black men can't be absent from their child's education
8:03 AM on 05/18/2011
OPINION - It's time for us to get off of our collective butts and sit with our children and start being intimate with the educational process...
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Harvard has more black students than ever, but are they African-American?
8:21 AM on 04/21/2011
OPINION - The irony is that the multicultural inclusiveness that is desired by colleges and universities is the same thing that can distort the numbers for black students...
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One dropout every 26 seconds is ticking time bomb for blacks
4:37 AM on 04/06/2011
OPINION - The high school drop out epidemic among African-Americans is not a ticking time bomb, it's a tsunami that's swamping the future of black America...
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Are for-profit schools leaving black students in the red?
9:40 AM on 03/23/2011
OPINION - Thousands of for profit college graduates are crumbling under massive student loan debt, while the colleges are struggling to prove that their graduates can find jobs...
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How come Head Start is always on the chopping block?
8:20 AM on 03/14/2011
OPINION - Head Start, the popular preschool program serving nearly a million lower income children, has come under attack from Congressional Republicans...
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How hazing hurts reputation of black Greek life
9:49 AM on 03/08/2011
OPINION - We tried understanding. We did the suspension thing, the revoking the chapter charter thing. Now it's time to do the draconian thing...
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Is UNCF's fight for HBCUs a 'waste' of mindpower?
11:08 AM on 03/03/2011
OPINION - 'A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste' was and is a brilliant slogan for HBCUs who've historically provided the backbone of college education for blacks in this country...
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University of Alabama n-word incident is not isolated
11:48 AM on 02/15/2011
OPINION - Overt racist parties and incidents only bubble up when the covert racism on campus feels comfortable enough to show itself in the light...
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How do we teach black history in the future?
8:22 AM on 02/02/2011
OPINION - Since the classroom and textbooks have been an imperfect way of educating students about African-American history, the future may lie elsewhere...
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Atlanta: Anatomy of a dysfunctional school board
10:23 AM on 01/21/2011
OPINION - With 49,000 students, this is the largest school district ever placed on probation...
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Can Obama reboot the conversation of education?
10:04 AM on 01/18/2011
OPINION - The Obama administration is hoping to create a bipartisan solution that reduces the need for constant testing, while also keeping educational standards high...
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Kappa Alpha Psi celebrates 100 years of achievement
8:30 AM on 01/05/2011
OPINION - Today, thousands of Kappa men dressed in their fraternal colors of crimson and cream will be thinking not just about their founding, but also how they'll go forward...
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How do you discipline black kids in schools?
5:32 PM on 12/26/2010
OPINION - Today, African-American students are now over three times as likely to be suspended in school, with middle schools being the center of the controversy...
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Mario Perez: In defense of the DREAM Act
12:57 PM on 12/16/2010
OPINION - Although Mario is frightened of the prospect of being deported to a country he doesn't know, he is encouraged by the support he's had from his fraternity brothers...
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Has 'Head Start' helped advance black education?
12:52 PM on 12/08/2010
OPINION - To date, over 25 million children have participated in Head Start programs, with billions spent in over a thousand local cities and towns throughout the country...
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'Building a Grad Nation' report reveals what's at stake in our schools
12:32 PM on 12/03/2010
OPINION - According to the study, the African American high school students have a 62 percent graduation rate, behind every other racial group in the country...
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The state of black education: What's your take?
9:38 AM on 12/01/2010
OPINION - Next week, we're going to take a look at early education for African-Americans, from working with infants to kindergarten...
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Black hair salons pamper women for Valentine's
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CBC Chair Emanuel Cleaver denies he called Obama budget 'nervous breakdown on paper'
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Rapper Too Short, in XXL column, gives boys advice to 'turn girls out'
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Valentine's Day: theGrio's favorite black romantic movies (SLIDESHOW)
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Whitney Houston and Brick City breakout artists: Music stars who call Newark home (SLIDESHOW)
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Presidential PDA: Barack and Michelle Obama's most romantic moments (SLIDESHOW)
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Slideshow: theGrio's best break-up songs of all time
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Grammy Awards 2012: Best and worst red carpet fashion
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New York magazine published picture of Obama evolving from ape to human
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Jeremy Lin's race matters and that's a good thing
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Are Democrats too eager to abandon President Obama?
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Nicki Minaj Grammys backlash: Has the rapper put her career at risk?
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Interracial relationships in the post-'Loving v. Virginia' age
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