Black students' reading proficiency is lowest of any racial group, with education reforms and poverty, trauma, and absenteeism being major barriers.

Victims of a scandal which saw black children labelled "educationally subnormal" and wrongly sent to a school for mental and ... just kind of preparing me to work as a carer.

"The world owes you nothing but an opportunity" was a favorite saying of Geneva Epps Mosley, her daughter Evelyn Plantillas said.