Posts in category Education

By SAADSHAW In the early 1950’s I had the honor to hear Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune speak in a packed, hot and humid Clayborn Temple …

By ISHEKA N. HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com The Trump Administration has invited the leaders of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to join them on …

By LEEDS ANTOINE Special to South Florida Times Formal education was actively denied to African Americans prior to the Civil War, particularly in the South. …

Black PR Wire CORAL GABLES, Fla. – It wasn’t the Greensboro sit-in of 1960, when four 17year-old African American college students continued to sit in …

By JAMIE MARTINES, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review PITTSBURGH (AP) – While most teachers spent the day in the classroom, social studies teacher Doug Kirchner spent a recent …

By SHAUN RYAN The Daytona Beach News-Journal PALM COAST, Fla. (AP) – When Nicole Perilli was 6-years-old, her sister was injured in an automobile accident …

WEST PALM BEACH – Sixty years after her death, the Palm Beach County Alumni Chapter of Bethune-Cookman University continues to honor the legacy of the …

Staff Report Courtesy of Black PR Wire “Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities” is the first and only …

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – School districts all over Florida are facing teacher shortages, including in elementary education, which historically had the easiest jobs to fill. …

AUBURN, Ala. (AP) – Construction will soon take place on a new education facility at the Auburn University Regional Airport. The construction will create additional …