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The Education Department accesses civil rights gains under President Obama. Activists are preparing for rollbacks under Trump's administration.

Several Republicans joined Democrats to confirm John King for education secretary. King's main task is implementing the sweeping new education law.

  Roland Martin talks to acting Secretary of Education John King about the rule that deals with racial inequities that plague students of color in this country. “In districts around the country we see African-American and Latino students are disproportionately placed and suspended from school. This rule would require, where there are these large racial gaps, […]

Roland Martin talks to the incoming Secretary of Education, John King about the status of the nation’s graduation rates, education and college preparation courses. “We were excited to announce yesterday that the country reached the highest graduation rate we ever had with just over 82%. The African-American graduation rate has reached 72% so we’re seeing a closing […]

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Huggy Lowdown jokes with the crew about the large list of “Bama of the Week” nominees racking up including CNN’s John King and a member of the TJMS crew.

Commentary

Dead air. It’s the bane of a broadcaster’s existence. Dead air is that pause that is too long, that allows listeners or viewers to change stations, that costs a station advertising and ratings points. Engineers, producers, news directors, reporters who allow dead air on their station or network are looking at termination. And so in […]

National News

CNN’s John King has taken to Twitter to further explain his erroneous report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing. “Source of that description was a senior government official. And I asked, are you sure? But I’m responsible. What I am not is racist,” the anchor wrote Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A […]

CNN’s John King showed the worst kind of journalism Wednesday when he made controversial racial assumptions and falsely reported on-air that the suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings was a “dark-skinned male.” King was wrong and irresponsible.  Law enforcement officials immediately refuted King’s report and, in fact, CBS News reported that the suspect is […]