State discipline law keeps Black, Latino kids in class. ... Black students accounted for 17% of total suspensions in California — despite making up less than 6% of the student population. ...

Violating a school dress code. Using a cellphone in class. Mouthing off at a teacher. There was a time when that kind of behavior, called "willfully defiant" conduct, would get a California public ...

This is the vision Nakia Bowling has for young Black children in the ... who founded an after-school program at Miami Shores Elementary learns some new steps along with children during a dance class.

What makes 'Friday' special in the pantheon of Black cinema was that it was one of the first "hood" films of its kind in the '90s that showed and humanized working-class Black communities.

Looming funding cuts threaten the academic progress of Black students in districts across California, according to a report by researchers at the University of Southern California.