Bud Lichtenstein, the school head, refers to The Raleigh School as “one of the best kept secrets in the Triangle.” The school is hosting a Diversity Admission Morning event on Tuesday, October 28th at 9am, designed to encourage families of different backgrounds to consider The Raleigh School for their preschool or elementary school aged children. Bud […]

If you were in control of a city government under siege with charges of racial profiling, police brutality and totalitarian administration, don’t you think you’d…

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There’s a growing racial gap between students and their teachers. On the eve of the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education…

A group of Black law students at Washington and Lee University are demanding that the school’s administration publicly denounce its Confederate past and distance the…

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Western Washington University President Bruce Shepard (pictured center) is drawing conservative ire for resurfacing comments he made about school diversity using the word White, according to…

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Sunday’s Academy Awards was championed by many for its diversity. The program had big wins for people of color. Quite a few also presented awards.…

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Despite plans from the banking industry to add more than one million jobs between now and 2020 and data revealing that Blacks are obtaining more…

For iPad/iPhone users: I want you to read something that caught my attention this week: “When we have more national championships than we do black…

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For the last couple of years, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has been accused of having lack of diversity. Now the students ,…

(Special to NewsOne) — This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in the case of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action…

VIA: WNCN.COM The Wake County student assignment committee got a lesson about a school assignment concept called “controlled choice.” The plan divides the school system into zones, each one designed to represent the system as a whole. Parents would choose schools in rank-order preference. The concept was designed to voluntarily achieve racially integrated schools. MORE

VIA: WRAL.COM After several last-ditch efforts to keep diversity a factor in deciding how to assign students to Wake County schools, the Board of Education voted Tuesday to adopt a controversial policy that moves away from the district’s longstanding practice of busing. A crowd of opponents jeered, shouting “Hey, hey. Ho ho. Resegregation has got […]