Graduation

A Louisiana high school prevented its valedictorian from graduating because he refused to shave off his facial hair. The school district said it has a longstanding ban on male facial hair. But it was not enforced during the school year.

In a whirlwind weekend, the OWN creator visited Mount Holyoke, Johnson C. Smith and Spelman to celebrate her former students' graduation.

Plus, Ferguson hires its first Black police chief, U.S. Department of Education releases report calling for more teachers and professors of color and more news.

Barack Obama was speaking at a Michigan college, when he was reminded that Malia will soon be leaving to start a college career of her own.

The dismal education statistics for young Black men are all too familiar, especially in cities like Camden, New Jersey, where poverty, crime and poor access to…

Extraordinarily talented Dreamville/Roc Nation artist J.Cole is truly in a league of his own and he proved as much yet again by keeping a promise to…

This will leave you speechless… or, depending on your temperament, riddled with anger. Trinecia Blacklock, a fifth-grader at Houston’s Link Elementary School who uses a…

First Lady Michelle Obama honored a slain honor student during an emotional speech to hundreds of teenagers at King College Prep High School in Chicago Tuesday evening.…

A 99-year old woman shed a few tears on Friday as she graduated from the College of the Canyons. Doreetha Daniels has been studying at…

Graduations are meant to be special moments between students and their families, but one family is now facing charges for cheering on their relatives during a…