Education

This Group Celebrates and Supports Black Women Authors

By Nadira Jamerson, Word in Black  It’s been 73 years since Zora Neale Hurston’s essay “What White Publishers Won’t Print,” ran in the Negro Digest....

Texas Announces Takeover of Houston Schools, Stirring Anger

By JUAN A. LOZANO and PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Texas officials on Wednesday announced a state takeover of Houston's nearly 200,000-student public school...

Fairways to Leadership Teaches Power of Golf

By Helen Ross, PGA TOUR, Stacy M. Brown, Special to NNPA Newswire To say Jaylen Brown was skeptical might have been an understatement. Dr. Eric Boyd, an...

Black History isn’t ‘Controversial,’ it’s Real Life

By Svante Myrick, Afro News Black history is the undeniable history of this country, its people, actions, triumphs and atrocities. Yet, Black history is deemed...

Houston Joins Cities Fighting Potential State Takeovers

By JUAN A. LOZANO and PAUL J. WEBER, Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — In four years of Houston schools being under threat of one of...