Posts in category Education

Staff Report DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of the African-American Achievers awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 26, 6:30 p.m. at …

Staff Report FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Outstanding high school performers from Broward County Public Schools will take center stage for the 18th annual Stars on …

Staff Report TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam recently announced that Broward County Public Schools is serving more than 40,000 pounds …

Senator Oscar Braynon II, District 118, spoke during a formal community address Monday, Feb. 27, at the Miami Dade College’s School of Justice Open House …

By ISHEKA N. HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com MIAMI – Eleven-year-old Sienna Anderson and her partner, 12-year-old Alex Joseph won Blacktech Weekend’s Teen Pitch Competition held at the …

By SAADSHAW In the early 1950’s I had the honor to hear Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune speak in a packed, hot and humid Clayborn Temple …

By ISHEKA N. HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com The Trump Administration has invited the leaders of the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to join them on …

By LEEDS ANTOINE Special to South Florida Times Formal education was actively denied to African Americans prior to the Civil War, particularly in the South. …

Black PR Wire CORAL GABLES, Fla. – It wasn’t the Greensboro sit-in of 1960, when four 17year-old African American college students continued to sit in …

By JAMIE MARTINES, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review PITTSBURGH (AP) – While most teachers spent the day in the classroom, social studies teacher Doug Kirchner spent a recent …