Tag: Race: Page 71

Students

Obama election spurs race crimes around country

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

November 17, 2008

Students

The Admissions Quandary Up Close and Personal

Students gain a better understanding of the significance of diversity in admissions.

November 12, 2008

Community Colleges

Ward Connerly Dealt A Loss in Colorado; Nebraska reviews new law

Colorado voters narrowly rejected banning affirmative action at public colleges and universities.

November 9, 2008

LGBTQ+

U.S. accepts Black President, struggles with other social advances

Americans made history this week by electing their first Black president while banning affirmative action and gay marriage at the same time.

November 6, 2008

Home

No Retreat on Affirmative Action Under Obama, Black Think Tank Predicts

An administration under President-elect Barack Obama will protect race-based affirmative action in education and employment, political pundits said at a post-election analysis discussion convened Wednesday at the nation’s leading think tank on African-American affairs.

November 5, 2008

Latinx

Gettting to Know You: Diversity in Friendships Reduces Stress, UCB Study Finds

Making friends outside your own ethnic group or race in academic settings can reduce stress, researchers at University of California at Berkeley have found.

November 4, 2008

Students

Both Obama and McCain Seen as Keeping Muslim Americans at ‘Arms Length’

Muslim and Arab Americans could tip the balance in the close presidential race.

October 27, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Putting Barack Obama’s Candidacy In Historical Perspective

A host of pre-eminent Black scholars sound off on the historical and sociological significance of Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy and its aftereffects on Black America.

October 15, 2008

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Group Says Nebraska College Biased Against Whites

A group supporting a Nov. 4 ballot measure to end affirmative action says the University of Nebraska College of Law discriminates against White students, but school officials say they never released data that could produce that finding.

October 9, 2008

HBCUs

Perspectives: Race Not Far From the Surface as Obama Articulates a Message of Transformation.

The recent victory by Barack Obama in the Democratic primary and securing the nomination of his party was supposedly a signal to that party and the nation as a whole that race was a less significant factor in America. That assessment may be premature.

September 29, 2008

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Poll: Views Still Differ Sharply by Race

Since the nation’s birth, Americans have discussed race and avoided it, organized neighborhoods and political movements around it, and used it to divide and hurt people even as relations have improved dramatically since the days of slavery, Reconstruction and legal segregation.

September 22, 2008

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Justice Thomas Says Constitution Forbids Racial Preference

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday that African-Americans are better served by colorblind programs than affirmative action.

September 9, 2008