by Kierra Gray | May 30, 2016 | Demographics
WASHINGTON — Black Americans’ educational equality has improved in the last year, but college graduation rates and access to high-quality elementary and secondary education remains a problem, according to a major survey by the National Urban League — which wants...
by Kierra Gray | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Alexandra Snyder, a 13-year-old from Albany, New York, made it through two rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee Wednesday, but she didn’t make it to the final 45 spellers still in the competition – felled by an inadequate score on a...
by Kierra Gray | May 26, 2016 | Education
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD.– O-S-C-I- L-L-O-M-E-T-E-R. noun, Medicine/Medical. – an instrument for measuring the changes in pulsations in the arteries, especially of the extremities – Merriam-Webster dictionary. Tirzah Schanding, a 13-year-old from Winchester, had...
by Kierra Gray | May 22, 2016 | Science + Technology, Topics
WASHINGTON—With ransomware attacks on the rise, schools, hospitals and commercial businesses are learning the hard way that they need to take extra precautions to protect their files. They are at high risk because their records are critically important, and IT...
by Kierra Gray | May 18, 2016 | Demographics
WASHINGTON – Eight years into our first African-American presidency and amid an increasingly racialized election cycle, what can we say about the state of black America? According to a new report by the National Urban League, it’s mixed: African Americans have made...
