high school

A school district owns the property where the bodies of 95 black convict-lease prisoners from Jim Crow era were buried.

Commemorative class books evolved from practical notebooks into collections of hair clippings, two-line rhymes, and summer wishes.

Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

And how the term came to be code for pot-smoking in the first place.

There are many theories about the origin of 420, but five guys named Waldo started it all.

Advanced Placement testing is "a money-making racket that lets states off the hook for underfunding education."

The early years of a future basketball icon.

A massive protest by Mexican American high school students was a milestone in a movement for Chicano rights.

How college basketball coach Pat Summitt transformed women's sports.

The rise in undergraduate degrees was supposed to increase prosperity and cut economic inequality. Biden’s student debt relief plan proves otherwise.

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

What we fight about when we fight about schools.

None of it happened by mistake.

Beginning in the 1960s, young Black majorettes and dance troupes created a fascinating culture. This is the story of how they did it.

Many don’t realize Newport, Rhode Island launched more slave trading voyages than anywhere else in North America.

The iconic songwriter has transcended time and place for 60 years. What should that mean for the rest of us?

From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.

An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

Most Americans are eager to forget 2020. But some are making time capsules to make sure future generations remember it.

In 1968, history found us at a small women’s college, forging our Black identity and empowering our defiance.