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President Obama has given 10 states permission to pursue their school reforms without adhering to the standards of the No Child Left Behind Act. Another 28 states are expected to receive similar approval by the end of the month.  Rather than dealing with the standards of a system that has been criticized for not improving student performance, schools will be given an alternative set of assessments that leave room for

Books to read for black history month that you can enjoy written by black authors.

Police say a 12-year-old girl was shot and killed when someone sprayed her house with bullets. It happened Tuesday at approximately 8:45 p.m. on the 19400 block of Ferguson.

A crowd filled with students has gathered to hear President Barack Obama talk about college affordability during a visit to the University of Michigan

Come register to vote in time for the Michigan Primary Elections on February 28th and get excited for the 2012 Presidential election.

Gospel music Erica from super gospel group Mary Mary gave birth to her beautiful daughter Tuesday night.

This video shows a teacher taking out his frustrations on a students phone after he caught him texting in class. But from the looks of this video we don’t believe it. Watch it and tell us what you think.

President BarackObama will begin a three-day trip following State of the Union address to Congress, and once again metro Detroit is on his itinerary.

As we recall the civil rights gains that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked so hard for, noted legal scholar Michelle Alexander claims there’s still a long way to go before blacks achieve true social equality.

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In her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Alexander, an associate legal professor

Detroit Police will announce later this week the homicide numbers for 2011. They will be 344. That’s up from 308 in 2010, an increase of 36 bodies or 10 percent.