Black Public Media Gets $40,000 NEA Grant
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — The Harlem-based media arts organization Black Public Media (BPM) has been awarded an Art Works grant of $40,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The allocation, one of more than $80 million in approved grants by National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu as part of the NEA’s second major funding announcement for fiscal year 2018, will help fund BPM’s signature public television series, AfroPoP: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange.
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SUNY Orange Celebrates Record Number of Grads
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — Speakers at SUNY Orange’s 68th Commencement ceremony on Thursday evening (May 17) emboldened the more than 500 attending graduates to “build” a brighter future for themselves and their community, “step” briskly into that new future, and positively “influence” those with whom they come in contact.
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Satellite National Black Parents’ Town Hall Meeting on Educational Excellence
Get your questions answered. Meet with educators, and legislators from your school districts, and find out what plans have been made to ensure that the achievement gap is closed. Hear about the law regarding Parental rights, high quality educational opportunities, assessments and accountability, equity and access to a well-rounded curriculum, and more. Transportation from several key points will be provided.
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Democrats invite students affected by gun violence to intern for the summer
CHICAGO CRUSADER — House Democrats are inviting students affected by school shootings to participate in an internship program on Capitol Hill, where they will work on issues related to violence prevention.
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Authors Sought for 2018 Black Ink: A Charleston African-American Book Festival
THE CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Black Ink: A Charleston African-American book festival returns for its 3rd year on Saturday, September 8th, and is seeking published black authors to contribute. The mission of Black Ink: A Charleston African-American Book Festival is to support local Black writers, creating a space for them to promote and share their works, discuss their craft, and…
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Parents of Students with Intellectual Disabilities Fight for Inclusion
THE WASHINGTON INFORMER — “Given the legal mandate, it is surprising that such a large proportion of students are consistently placed in restrictive settings,” said Matthew Brock, an assistant professor of special education at The Ohio State University who worked on the study. Brock’s study will be published in the American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
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OPINION: 64 Years After Ruling Segregated Schools Unlawful, But Still Exist
THE CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Maybe it’s not so hard to forget that racial segregation in public schools is supposed to be against the law because schools still are racially segregated. Heck, America still is racially segregated! Electing a Black president was monumental, but did little to change the reality of racism in America. Most recently I’ve been thinking there is no real desire to end segregation, racism and discrimination in America.
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Milwaukee Public Library Calendar of Events June 3 to 9
MILWAUKEE COURIER — Tour Historic Central Library Tour the Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave., with the Friends. Free tours begin at 11 a.m. each Saturday afternoon in the rotunda. Tour goers receive a coupon for a free book at the end of the tour in the Bookseller St…
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Students at NUSA Conference get crucial lesson in politics
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — More than 100 students at the 43rd Annual Neighborhoods USA (NUSA) Conference in Birmingham on Friday created their own city where technology is paramount and littering and cyberbullying are not tolerated. The City of Diversity — with the slogan, “Where Everybody Counts and YOU Matter” — was a…
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Seniors Recognized for Academic Skill, Dedication
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS — NEWBURGH – With graduation only a few days away, Mount Saint Mary College seniors were recognized for their dedication to academics and the campus community.
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Two Birmingham students win pitch competition on deforestation
THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES — Two Birmingham city high school student-athletes recently won $500 to plant trees around the metro area. Jordan Embry of Ramsay High School and Kobe Howard of Wenonah High School won for their presentation on the importance of mitigating deforestation in Alabama which impressed a panel of judges at the…
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OPINION: New ‘Poor People’s Campaign’ revives Dr. King’s vision
MINNESOTA SPOKESMAN RECORDER — On Monday, May 14, thousands of protestors, including 13 near the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, were arrested as they engaged in a national groundswell of nonviolent civil disobedience. According to the Minnesota Poor People’s Campaign, this calls for “new initiatives to fight systematic poverty and racism, immediate attention to ecological devastation, and measures to curb militarism and the war economy.”
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Protecting Our Community during National Foster Care Month
THE MADISON TIMES — In the late 1980s and early 1990s, our community was under a full-fledged attack. Crack was in our streets, it was in our schools, it was in our parks, it was in our playgrounds, and for some, it was in our homes. The epidemic wasn’t just affecting one part of the community; this impacted the entire community, leaving sons without fathers, daughters without mothers, and parents, ultimately, alone.
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COMMENTARY: I Read to My Grandmother Because She Could Not Read
THE WASHINGTON INFORMER — I cannot recall a day when I didn’t have a book under my arm, in my backpack or in my briefcase. I’ve treated books like my best friends, sometimes refusing to lend my “friends” to others because they tended to handle my books like they were pieces of paper that could be easily discarded and had little merit.
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5000 Role Models of Excellence Provides Incentives to Graduating Seniors and Student Leaders
THE FLORIDA STAR — The 5000 Role Models of Excellence conducted its 2nd Annual Awards Ceremony and Dinner at William M. Raines High. Students from the Raines High Culinary program catered the event. The celebration honored 5000 Role Models of Excellence student leaders and graduating seniors who have gone above and beyond for the 2017-2018 school year.
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Our Nation’s Top Teachers Disagree with Ed Sec DeVos on School Choice
THE CHRONICLE — When the best educators in America traveled to Washington, D.C. for a series of events celebrating innovation in the classroom and to share best practices in K-12 education, they let officials at the Department of Education and the White House know exactly how they felt…
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DeVos Gives Green Light for Schools to Blow Whistle on Immigrants
THE WASHINGTON INFORMER — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said Tuesday before the House Education and Workforce Committee that schools and local communities decide whether to call U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement if they suspect their students are undocumented.
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The New School launches Digital Equity Lab
THE AMSTERDAM NEWS — The New School launched the Digital Equity Laboratory, a project-based center that identifies and supports strategies to transform how technology is understood and used to drive racial, gender and economic equity and disrupt the use of technology to produce and reproduce inequity in our social, economic and civic life.
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Black Educators Share Success Stories at the 2018 National Title I Conference in Philadelphia
Black educators shared classroom success stories and talked about the importance of diversity and inclusion in our nation’s public schools at the 2018 National Title 1 Conference in Philadelphia, Penn.
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NAACP Statement on Santa Fe High School Shooting
BLACKVOICE NEWS — BALTIMORE, Md., May 18, 2018 /NNPANewswirePR/ The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation’s premier civil rights organization, issued the following statement regarding the tragic shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas:
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Burke High School Wins National Award
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Being a part of a national network designed to assist schools in building stronger pathways to college and career is advantageous for all students. Burke High School (BHS) became part of the New Tech Network (NTN) program in the 2017-18 school year. School administrators and staff were ready for the challenge of raising the level of project-based instruction across course content. This project opened many doors and after only one year of operation, the students and teachers at Burke earned NTN’s 2018 Best in Network award.
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