An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced a bill that which would create the state’s first systematic K-8 math intervention program, modeled on Read to Achieve.
The Apollo Theater has received a $1 million endowment from its new board chairman.
HBO gifted Howard University $1 million for the creation of an entertainment fellowship.
Coates’ New York Times bestseller will be adapted into a multimedia performance, with excerpted monologues, video projections, and a score by the jazz musician Jason Moran.