For a network of activists in South Africa, students are just that. Equal Education is a youth-led movement battling “class- and race-linked inequalities” in South Africa’s school system.

South African Students Persevere by 'Testing Hope' As children in the United States head back to school, many students in South Africa continue to face challenges, lacking even basic educational ...

Pretoria Girls High School, which was founded in 1902, only allowed white students to attend until the end of the apartheid -- the system of racial segregation in South Africa -- in 1994.

University students in South Africa have been protesting for weeks, demanding the government make university free. They say the goal is equal access for poor blacks, the country's majority.

GA-MASHASHANE, South Africa — At a high school in rural northern South Africa, more than 300 students and their teachers share three toilets, and that woefully lopsided figure isn’t the worst ...

Here at the Chiseka school on the rural outskirts of town, many children attend class outside, sitting among weeds in the shade of a towering blue gum tree. There are 1,531 students, six ...

At The African School for Excellence in Tsakane, South Africa, ... ASE’s students outperform the wealthiest students in South Africa by 2.3 times in math and 1.4 times in English.

Black African immigration to the U.S. has exploded over the past few decades. Today, there are about 2 million Black African immigrants – up from 184,000 in 1990. Black African immigrants now ...