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ARTICLES:
What Black High School Grads Need to Hear
Show Me the Numbers: Graduation speakers often opt for tough love. Here's what they should say instead.
Black Male Teachers: Becoming Extinct?
Show Me the Numbers: There are more African-American male educators than recent reports suggest.
Retire the Myth: Black Men, Jail and College
Show Me the Numbers: More on the falsehood and how it's caused a missed opportunity to solve real issues.
More Black Men in Jail Than in College? Wrong
Show Me the Numbers: A 13-year-old report using questionable data gave rise to an enduring myth.
Massacres, Mental Health and Black Kids
Show Me the Numbers: As Newtown coverage conflates mental illness and violence, students may suffer.
How Race Matters in the Classroom
Show Me the Numbers: Do black kids have problems in schools because so few teachers look like them?
Coming of Age Amid the Ashes of the Black Power Movement
In a piece for EmPower magazine, Dr. Ivory Toldson reflects on the effect his relationship with his own stepfather and with Tupac Shakur's had on his understanding of oppression and activism.
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How Will Obama Handle HBCUs?
As we count down the days to a second term, a look at the president's record on black colleges.
