School

A Black student in Lake Oswego, Ore., has sued her school district, its superintendent, and a former board member…

You know, instead of dunking on white mess, why don’t we feel good and focus on some Black positivity instead? For…

According to my friends with kids and my friend who teaches, distance learning is a less than ideal experience. It’s…

Man, nothing seems to offend white folks more than a simple appeal for a better, more inclusive world. If you needed…

If I’ve learned anything during my time in this job, it’s that white people really be fucking trying it. Take for…

Officials for Chicago Public Schools have voted to significantly reduce the budget for school resource officers.

The 2020–2021 school year is bound to be very different for teachers and their students due to the effects of…

On Monday evening, a Texas federal judge ruled in favor of a Black teenager who was told he had to cut his hair or…

You know how I know America is inherently racist? There are multiple schools named after Confederate generals and…

Despite most medical professionals saying “Hey, don’t do that,” schools across the country are steadily beginning to…

Inexplicably, there’s an ongoing argument happening across the country about sending kids back to school even as…

If Donald Trump and a pair of discarded seersucker shorts had a baby boy and that little bastion of racism, idiocy…

Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. just lost two players from the school’s football team because Falwell…

Rapper, actor and Pro Era collective co-founder Joey Bada$$ tells The Root that each year, he creates a list of…

For many of us, 2020 has been a year we’d prefer to fast forward through. From losing Kobe and Gianna Bryant in late…

I have a curiosity that I’ve been pondering since schools shuttered and our kids have been home around the clock:…

America has a long history of racial oppression and, apparently, just as long a history of sweeping racism under the…

The American education system is rife with problems. Schools go underfunded, teachers barely can make a living wage…

A teenager once believed to be the “third son” of 50 Cent has allegedly been bullied and beaten in school. Now, his…

Beginning Jan. 27, students in seventh through 12th grades in Fairfax County Public Schools in Northern Virginia…