Students heading back to school Monday at Gary’s Thea Bowman Leadership Academy will be greeted by staff members dressed as superheroes, but they’ll see something just as exciting inside the school.

GARY | Accolade after accolade was heaped upon Thea Bowman Leadership Academy by parents, students and teachers as the charter school hosted a public hearing on its renewal. The charter for the school ...

Sr. Thea Bowman, F.S.P.A., Ph.D., was born in the small rural town of Canton in Central Mississippi. Her grandfather was a slave; her father was a physician and her mother, a teacher. In 1965, Sr.

GARY | Monday, October 10 was Columbus Day with a day off from school for many students, but that did not matter to 44 seniors and 8 juniors at Thea Bowman Leadership Academy from attending. The ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A woman laid to rest here in Memphis is one of only a handful of African Americans on the path to sainthood in the Catholic Church. As FOX13 celebrates Black History Month, we share ...

It‘s been nearly 30 years since Sr. Thea Bowman famous- ly declared to a gathering of the U.S. Catholic bishops that her “Black self,” with all the Black songs, dances, and traditions she’d imbibed ...

One of Sister Thea Bowman’s favorite songs was “This Little Light of Mine,” and her candle continues to glow for those she inspired — 25 years after her death to breast cancer at the age of 52.

This semester, the Dialogues on Race program will return to its goal of making students more comfortable talking about race. The discussion-style program, hosted by the Thea Bowman AHANA and ...

Subscribe to The St. Louis American‘s free weekly newsletter for critical stories, community voices, and insights that matter. Sign up Kenneth Nance Jr. has been appointed principal of Sister Thea ...

“Kick, ball, change,” and “Passé” were some of the step combinations Lindsey Donnell, with the Dance Theatre of Harlem, called out and demonstrated to the Thea Bowman Leadership Academy cheerleading ...

Sister Thea Bowman, a star in the constellation that is the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in La Crosse, is expected to get a boost from U.S. bishops onto the road to sainthood in November.