Education

Source | Concreteloop Today marks an incredible feat for Hip-hop. Harvard University and the Hip-hop Archive at the W.E.B. Dubois Foundation have announced the establishment…

Recognizing the huge disparity of African-American and Hispanic teachers in comparison to their students, the U.S. Department of Education intends to address this issue in…

This week Indiana Black Expo released the 2012 State of Our Black Youth Report, a massive 236 page statistical analysis and narrative on the health and well-being of African-American youth in Indiana. Simultaneous press conferences were held in sixteen cities across the state: Anderson, East Chicago, Elkhart, Evansville, Fort Wayne, Gary, Hammond, Indianapolis, Jeffersonville, Kokomo, […]

Gary Grice, aka The GZA is known by many as The Genius of the Wu-Tang Clan, despite ending his formal education in the 10th grade. …

Beyonce has spent most of her life focused on being an entertainer, but her latest letter on her website proves that she may need to…

Better Education Place, a South Florida-based education company, has named both Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj their "Teachers of the Year."

Earlier this week Forbes contributor, and also (White American) Gene Marks did the unthinkable, and suddenly became a poor black kid. After reading his article…

TEXAS-Texas State is offering a scholarship that is for people of European descent only. The Statesman reports: So Bohannan, a mass communication major and Iraq war veteran, and others formed the Former Majority Association for Equality — a San Marcos-based nonprofit group that is offering five $500 scholarships exclusively to white male students. Bohannan, the […]

The memory of DeShaun “Proof” Holton of D12 will be honored in Detroit with a scholarship for high school seniors who come from low-income, single-parent households. The scholarship is being offered by the Proof Foundation, which was launched by Proof’s mother, Sharallene “Pepper” Holton-White, in 2007.

The Huffington Post is reporting on rapper Common’s recent efforts with “Get Schooled” to promote education around the country. Here’s what he had to say: His mother worked tirelessly to ensure her son got a quality education beyond the classroom, filling his free time with museum visits and book reports. The hard work paid off […]

NEWARK, N.J. – Two weeks after Newark schools received a $100 million donation from the founder of Facebook, students in one high school there used the social networking site to stage a protest. On Thursday, students at Barringer High School in Newark walked out of class in protest, saying their school is unsafe and unsanitary. […]

Black Enterprise is reporting that Mary J. Blige is joining Mos Def in working with NASA to promote science education for young people.