Another touching story went viral this past weekend just in time for the holidays. It all started when Shawna Cantiliano of Antioch High School saw a message on a whiteboard from one of her classmates. It asked that whoever stole the classmate’s Nintendo 3DS to return it. The game console was a gift from the […]

He crashed a 5th grade class of computer science students to announce that Google would be investing in them.

Two young ladies are making the grade and serving up rhymes in a hot track about academic excellence. The pair, 11-year-old 6th graders from Milwaukee Excellence Charter School in Wisconsin, have become the voice of their academy with a song called Excellence First. Borrowing a beat from Tee Grizley‘s First Day Out, 6th Grade teacher […]

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A personal tweet that Charles Brockman III, an incoming freshman at Mississippi State University, dedicated to his father went viral.

Raven Osborne, once labeled as having a learning disability, persevered with encouragement from her mom.

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Chance the Rapper announces the launch of the New Chance Arts and Literature Fund for Chicago public schools.

NewsOne focuses in March 2017 on the steep uphill climb of Black girls in the K-12 public school system.

An African-American boy launches a book club featuring literature with positive Black characters.

A school district agrees to pay three Black students $450,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit.

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Senate Education Committee chairman John Eichelberger reportedly said during a town hall meeting that he blames failing urban school systems for minority students dropping out of college and that money would be better spent training them for vocational programs.

Gwendolyn Harrison Smith, the first African-American woman to attend  the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has died at age 91. Smith, who lived in Bessemer City, NC and passed away on February 28. At the age of  25, Smith arrived on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill on June 11, 1951. She had already […]

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John Wilson, President, Morehouse College, says he doesn’t know if Trump’s HBCU executive order will make an impact.