Mount Cavalry School is one of only a handful of former black schools in Horry County that have survived the decades since they were built starting in the mid 1920s.

Obama will spoke about that role and signed an executive order for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the East Room Friday afternoon.

The RETOOL YOUR SCHOOL program is making $150,000 in grants available, to support them in preserving, improving and upgrading their campuses.
 

The ten students were flown to Washington for winning a Black History Month essay contest.
 

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is on a mission: He wants to tour several historically black colleges and speak directly with African-American male students about teaching in the nation’s public schools.

Serena Williams will visit Kenya for three days next week to inaugurate a school built with her funds and several other partners, local media reported on Thursday.

Many people wait a lifetime to get a glimpse of their legacy.  It only took McKenzie Thompson nine years. McKenzie, played an integral role in her school’s first, and now forever, Heritage Celebration Day.
 

Last week, the Women’s Academy of Excellence High School in the Bronx hosted a very important Aids Awareness Health Forum.

The pulpit at many black churches has become a place to pray to a higher power – and praise higher learning.

Event celebrates literacy during Black History Month.

At Marcus Garvey Academy in Detroit, the week begins with the recitation of black history facts followed by the sounds of drummers summoning students to an assembly.

In 1912, African-American schools, educator Booker T. Washington involved Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Co., in building schools in the South.
 

Dr. Bernard Harris marks his 15th anniversary of being the first African-American to walk in space by announcing a free summer science camps for more than 1,500 low-income Houston children.