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Education Department opens investigation into Chicago Public Schools

By Deon J. Hampton The U.S. Education Department is investigating Chicago Public Schools amid allegations that a new program designed to improve academic success and retention among Black students and educators violates federal law. The investigation announced Tuesday is based on a February complaint by the nonprofit Parents Defending Education, now known as Defending Education, which alleged the school system’s academic-achievement initiative for Black students racially discriminates against students, violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The investigation appears to be the first time since President Donald Trump took office in January that the department has investigated a public school system for instituting

May Day protesters will rally nationwide against the ‘war on working people’

By Emma Bowman Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets nationwide on Thursday in May Day rallies opposing the Trump administration. May Day, celebrated by workers across the globe as International Labor Day, occurs on May 1 each year. This year, activists in the U.S. aim to build on the momentum of recent widespread grassroots protests against policies implemented by the Trump administration. Anti-Trump protesters have expressed a range of concerns regarding the administration’s recent actions, including the elimination of thousands of federal jobs, immigration raids, and billionaire Elon Musk’s involvement in downsizing the U.S. government. A

Supreme Court to weigh effort to create nation’s first religious charter school

By Melissa Quinn The Supreme Court on Wednesday is set to hear arguments in a high-profile dispute over efforts in Oklahoma to create an online Catholic charter school, a case that could open the door to public dollars flowing directly to religious schools. A ruling in favor of the school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, could lead to the country’s first religious charter school and upend laws in 45 states and the District of Columbia, as well as the federal charter school program, all of which require charter schools to be nonsectarian, Oklahoma’s Republican attorney general, Gentner Drummond, has warned. “This

Getty Images and Ancestry Partner to Digitally Preserve Historic Archives of HBCUs

Getty Images (NYSE: GETY), a preeminent global visual content creator and marketplace, has announced a first-of-its-kind genealogy-focused partnership with Ancestry, the global leader in family history. As part of Getty Images’ HBCU Grants Program, this initiative will focus on the digital preservation and accessibility of historical documents, records and the photographic archives of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Once digitized, these invaluable archives will become searchable on Ancestry websites, helping millions of people discover and connect with the rich legacy of HBCUs. Working alongside Getty Images, Ancestry will collaborate with participating HBCUs to identify and digitize documents, such as newsletters, newspapers, bulletins,

DOJ Civil Rights Division Sees Exodus of 100+ Lawyers

By Pierre Thomas The Justice Department’s division tasked with enforcing the nation’s federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass exodus of “over 100” attorneys, the newly confirmed official leading the division said in an interview this week. “What we have made very clear last week in memos to each of the 11 sections in the Civil Rights Division is that our priorities under President Trump are going to be somewhat different than they were under President Biden,” DOJ Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in an interview with conservative host Glenn Beck. “And then we tell them, these are the

After Grant Losses, HBCUs Look to New Executive Order

Earlier this month, Morgan State University was gearing up to host a group of local K-12 students at the campus’s engineering school. The field trip was part of a series of programs intended to expose underrepresented students to STEM careers, funded by a roughly $450,000 contract with the U.S. Navy. Students planned to tour the historically Black university’s artificial intelligence and cybersecurity labs. But then the university’s president, David K. Wilson, found out the Department of Defense had terminated the contract. As a result, the trip was canceled. Stunned, Wilson said, his “fatherly instincts took over.” He declared the April 16

HBCU Caucus Leader Backs New Executive Order Support

Congresswoman Alma S. Adams Ph.D. (NC-12), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, and Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Bipartisan, Bicameral Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Caucus, released a statement following President Trump’s executive order on HBCUs. “I welcome all and every initiative to support our nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities because supporting HBCUs is not a partisan issue,” said Congresswoman Adams. “HBCUs are centers of achievement, excellence, and success, and have always punched above their weight, even in the face of historic underfunding.” “In order to win the race in the 21st century to remain

HBCUs Celebrate Trump’s Order—But Will It Bring Change?

By Zachary Schermele Even as his administration targets diversity programs in higher education, President Donald Trump reaffirmed his commitment to supporting the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities, or HBCUs. He signed a largely symbolic order on April 23 in the Oval Office that rehouses a long-standing bipartisan presidential initiative on HBCUs at the White House rather than at the U.S. Department of Education. It also maintains a presidential advisory board on HBCUs within the Education Department. The order was celebrated by many HBCUs, including Howard University, where former Vice President Kamala Harris studied and gave her concession speech after she lost her bid

Judge Blocks Trump’s Move to Cut School Diversity Funds

By Holly Ramer and Collin Binkley A federal judge on Thursday blocked Trump administration directives that threatened to cut federal funding for public schools with diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The ruling came in a lawsuit brought by the National Education Association and the American Civil Liberties Union, which accused the Republican administration of giving “unconstitutionally vague” guidance and violating teachers’ First Amendment rights. A second judge in Maryland on Thursday postponed the effective date of some U.S. Education Department anti-DEI guidance, and a third judge in Washington, D.C., blocked another provision from taking effect. In February, the department told schools and

Black Churches Support Smithsonian Museum After Trump Order

As he does one day each month, the Rev. Robert Turner hit the road from his home in Baltimore last week and traveled — on foot — 43 miles to Washington. He arrived by evening on April 16 outside the White House, carrying a sign that called for for “Reparations Now.” This time, Turner added another stop on his long day’s journey — the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Turner knelt in prayer and laid a wreath at the entrance of the museum in support of its mission, which incurred President Donald Trump’s criticism alongside other Smithsonian

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