This year at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, the flagship public college in a state where 37 percent of the population is black, black men comprise just 5.7 percent of the total student population. Of the four major college student demographics — black men, black women, white men and white women — black men [...]

Sam Dillon In many of the nation’s middle schools, black boys were nearly three times as likely to be suspended as white boys, according to a new study, which also found that black girls were suspended at four times the rate of white girls. School authorities also suspended Hispanic and American Indian middle school students [...]

Wayne Roustan DELRAY BEACH — More than 50 teachers became students Thursday on a two-hour tour of historic black neighborhoods here. Guarn Sims, principal of Village Academy – the only K-12 school in the Palm Beach County school district – organized the bus trip to show his teachers where their students were coming from. Thursday [...]