Instead of the school board deciding for itself, a special election was held in January 1921. The Dunbar School was build at ...

One hundred years ago, on Oct. 2, 1916, a new public high school building for black youngsters was opened in Washington, D.C. and named for black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Its history is a story ...

A new lawsuit claims Chicago Public Schools employees failed to take action when a high school student was being ... he was a ...

A 17-year-old Dunbar High School student was shot and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries on Tuesday. Police arrested 18-year-old Justice Thomas, who turned himself in on ...

When Dunbar High opened its doors in 1870, it became the first public high school in the United States for African-American students. It has a long list of notable alumni and was once considered ...