Mother Bethune’s School
Mary McLeod Bethune built a college from scrap lumber and faith—and then walked into the White House as if it had been waiting for her all along.
The Teacher Who Built the Ballot
Septima Clark didn’t just teach people to read. She taught them to govern themselves—and helped rewire the Civil Rights Movement from the ground up.
The Teacher Who Refused to Stop Teaching
Jahana Hayes’s life—public housing, teen motherhood, a White House podium, a swing-district seat—has always argued the same point: education isn’t a talking point. It’s t
A Neighborhood Goes Dark
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) didn’t make Sesame Street, ZOOM and Reading Rainbow. But it helped build the system that delivered them—especially to the Black famili
The Only One in the Building
For many Black educators, being the lone Black teacher means carrying a school’s conscience on their backs—with little pay, and less protection.
The Schools Black Families Built
Across the country, Black-owned private schools—some century-old boarding academies, others brand-new start-ups—are quietly reshaping what it means to give a Black child a “g
The Future Is Written in Code. Will Black Students Get to Write It?
Inside classrooms, churches and Zoom tutoring sessions, a generation of Black kids is discovering STEM—just as the door to the high-wage tech economy is opening widest.
The Million-Dollar Seniors
How a small cohort of Black high school graduates are rewriting the scholarship game — and what their windfalls reveal about race, banking and the price of a college dream.
When Colleges Cancel Diversity
The quiet revolution remaking American higher education — and what vanishing DEI offices mean for who gets in, who stays, and who belongs.
Three Kings of Morehouse
How a grandfather, a father and a son turned one small Black college—along with a church and a bank on Sweet Auburn—into the backbone of a movement.