The U.S. Department of Education was created as a cabinet-level agency in 1979 during President Jimmy Carter's tenure.

What do you get when 3,000 Chicago Public Schools students join forces during Black History Month to sing? Soulful and ...

The leader of the Religion and Public Life program at the Harvard Divinity School departed suddenly in January, creating turnover at the top of an initiative that became a lightning rod for ...

These additions include the works of Yale-affiliated Black artists and a new portrait of Black theologian Alexander Crummell.

The second annual “Community Readings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” was hosted by the Martin Marty Center for the ...

Visit the Logan Center for the Arts for the premiere of Roots and Blues, a documentary celebrating the legacy of Muddy Waters ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The city of Chicago continues to grapple with gun violence, which impacts hundreds of people every year. As of July 7, 2024, there have been almost 1,200 total reported shootings ...

Editor's Note: Our latest story on school closings for Tuesday, which includes more than 100 closures, can be found here. Our original story continues below. More than a dozen Chicago-area schools ...

Sister JoAnn Persch and Sister Pat Murphy used to set up a sacred space in the McHenry County Jail library once a week for immigrant detainees. The men held there — who could connect with their ...

Goshen College has announced its spring lecturers, continuing its newly developed interdepartmental lecture series. All lectures will be free and open to the public. The first event, the Umble Master ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Share University of Chicago students have canceled one of the school’s well-known traditions in protest of the arrest, suspension and banning from campus of a student ...

St. Thomas will assist its 145 students in finding another Catholic school, while teachers and staff will receive priority for open positions within the Archdiocese of Chicago, Janczak wrote.