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Students

University of Delaware Honors Civil Rights Lawyer for Inspiring Integration

The University of Delaware names a newly-built residence hall after Louis Redding, a civil rights lawyer who successfully filed a lawsuit against the university for refusing to admit Black students in the 1950s.

September 22, 2013

Leadership & Policy

Lawyer: NC Charlotte Officer Was Justified in Shooting Unarmed Man

Authorities say Randall Kerrick shot former Florida A&M University football player Jonathan A. Ferrell 10 times early Saturday after the 24-year-old was in a single-car wreck and sought help at a nearby house.

September 17, 2013

Sports

Football Effect? Texas A&M Raises Record $740M

Johnny Football isn’t just helping Texas A&M University on the football field.

September 16, 2013

Latinx

Calif. Community Colleges Increase Enrollment

California’s community colleges are set to increase enrollment for the first time in years, and officials are crediting a voter-approved tax for the bump.

September 12, 2013

Students

September 12 Issue

The Doctor Is In: Dr. Wayne Howard is tackling a host of new challenges as provost of Howard University; Untenured female scholars pressured to delay motherhood; SARA aims to standardize distance learning credentialing.

September 11, 2013

Students

University of Louisville Business Chief Facing Fraud Allegations

The executive director of a medical department at the University of Louisville wrote checks to himself from several medical practices linked to the school for amounts possibly exceeding $2 million over the last six years, an Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator said in an affidavit.

September 4, 2013

African-American

1963 March on Washington Inspired Latinos in Civil Rights Fight

After seeing the heavily Black throngs gathered around the Lincoln Memorial, Latinos learned some lessons from that show of political force, historians say.

August 27, 2013

HBCUs

NY Attorney General: Trump Making Wild Accusations

New York’s attorney general says Donald Trump is making wild accusations, just like others who commit fraud and get caught.

August 26, 2013

African-American

Feeling It at the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

Will President Obama’s speech on the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech go down in the history books?

August 26, 2013

Faculty & Staff

Former Seminary Professor’s Case Reaches Supreme Court

The case of Dr.Jimmy Kirby, who was fired from Lexington Theological Seminary due to faculty cutbacks, was heard recently by the Kentucky Supreme Court.

August 26, 2013

Disabilties

N.Y. Sues ‘Trump University’ and Its Get-Rich Claims

New York’s attorney general sued Donald Trump Donald Trump -Search using:News, Most Recent 60 DaysBiographies Plus Newsfor $40 million Saturday, saying the real estate mogul helped run a phony “Trump University.”

August 25, 2013

Asian American Pacific Islander

50 Years Later: Renewing the All-Inclusive Dream and March — and Thinking About Oprah’s Purse

If there’s a march for jobs and economic justice, you bet Asian-Americans should be there.

August 19, 2013