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African-American

Hands Up, Hands Down! It Doesn’t Matter

I was talking to one of my childhood friends today about the shooting of an unarmed African-American male in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His remark about the shootings of Black men by police officers made me realize one thing. These shootings will not stop. There may be a temporary respite from time to time but the shooting […]

September 21, 2016

Campus Climate

College Student Disciplined for Photo Depicting Black Face

HAMDEN, Conn. — Quinnipiac (KWIHN’-ih-pee-ak) University officials say they have disciplined an unidentified student after a Snapchat photograph of a woman with brown mask-like material on her face went viral on social media. The woman in the image appeared to be white, and an accompanying caption said, “Black Lives Matter.” Connecticut NAACP President Scott Esdaile […]

September 21, 2016

Students

Students Protest Racial Incidents at American University

WASHINGTON ― American University students are demanding the suspension of two White students accused of throwing a banana at a Black woman in a dorm this month. An interracial crowd of hundreds gathered Monday to demand changes. Another Black student on the same floor of the dorm, Neah Gray, tells media outlets that she found […]

September 20, 2016

African-American

Is the Sordid Birther Chapter Really Closed?

A few days ago, Donald Trump finally admitted what the rational and sane among us always had known ― that President Obama was born in the United States.

September 19, 2016

Campus Climate

Ex-Berkeley Law School Dean Sues Over Sex Harassment Probe

SAN FRANCISCO ― The former dean of the University of California, Berkeley law school filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing school officials of singling him out because of his race for a second investigation of sexual harassment allegations. The University of California treated White faculty members and administrators found to have committed sexual misconduct more leniently […]

September 15, 2016

Students

California Puts High School Ethnic Studies Officially on the Books

California’s Governor Jerry Brown has signed a bill that will now mandate the teaching of ethnic studies in every public high school across the state.

September 15, 2016

Students

Western Kentucky University Investigating Racial Incidents on Campus

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. ― Officials at Western Kentucky University are investigating after someone slipped a statement under an assistant dean’s office door, attacking her race. WKU Provost David Lee told the Bowling Green Daily News Monday that Assistant Dean Michelle Jones of the University College recently found the statement in her South Campus office. He […]

September 13, 2016

Students

University of Oregon Removing Klan-affiliated Name from Building

The University of Oregon’s board of trustees has voted to remove the name of a classics professor from a student dormitory on campus because of his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan.

September 11, 2016

Students

University of Texas Honoring First Blacks who Enrolled

AUSTIN, Texas ― When Nathaniel Bradford enrolled at the University of Texas in 1963, he couldn’t join the band. Or a fraternity. Or play on the football team. The reason: He’s Black. The Austin American-Statesman reports the campus was slow to integrate, waiting until 1956 to enroll African-American undergraduates even though the U.S. Supreme Court […]

September 8, 2016

Sports

Texas Asks State Supreme Court to Block Track Coach Lawsuit

AUSTIN, Texas ― The University of Texas recently asked the state Supreme Court to block a sex and race discrimination lawsuit filed by former women’s track coach Bev Kearney, who was forced out in 2013 after the school learned about a romantic relationship with one of her athletes a decade earlier. University lawyers argued in […]

September 7, 2016

African-American

University Study Finds Inequality Unchanged in Hollywood

Despite widespread attention over diversity in the movie business, a new study finds that little is changing in Hollywood for women, minorities, LGBT people and others who continue to find themselves on the outside of an industry where researchers say inequality is “the norm.” A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and […]

September 7, 2016

Students

Malveaux Pushes for Advancement of Blacks in Higher Ed, ‘Social Economic Justice’

Former president of Bennett College Dr. Julianne Malveaux has created a legacy of sounding off about injustices against Blacks from the higher ed realm to the political arena.

September 6, 2016