Black students tended to make remarkable gains in the 1970s and 1980s, narrowing the achievement gaps between white and Black students. Then, Black achievement continued to climb even as the gap ...

I n 1970, two years and a couple days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Time magazine published a special issue on Black America.The cover was a Jacob Lawrence portrait of ...

Last week, I wrote about trends in school segregation in the 70 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared racial segregation in schools ...

At the same time he was running the “Bridge Program,” his 7uice Foundation’s five-day camp that brings more than 100 Black and brown high school students from Boston to MIT, where they learn ...

The O.J. Simpson trial and the reactions to his acquittal revealed the trench-like division between white and Black America in a time shortly after the 1992 L.A. Riots ...