Tag: Race: Page 78

Students

Denison Students Rally Over Race Issue

GRANVILLE Ohio About 150 students gathered at Denison University Thursday to continue a discussion of race relations as university officials asked students to help identify whoever put a printed swastika under the dorm room door of a black student.

November 8, 2007

International

Minority Enrollment at Michigan Holds Steady Following Affirmative Action Ban

The number of minority freshmen at the University of Michigan this fall remains about the same as in 2006, a notable departure from the steep drops that other flagship public universities have experienced immediately after affirmative action was banned in Michigan a year ago.

November 1, 2007

LGBTQ+

Follow-up Planned to 1968 Race Relations Report

CAMBRIDGE, Md. Four decades ago, a federal advisory panel released a prominent report on the causes of race riots in seven U.S. cities. Now, researchers are planning a follow-up.

October 24, 2007

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Deval Patrick Headlines Boston Rally for Barack Obama

BOSTON Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick waded into the contentious battle for the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, endorsing Barack Obama as the “book smart and street smart” candidate during an evening rally on Boston Common.

October 23, 2007

Sports

Fired Univ. of Louisiana Coach Wins $2 million Judgment in Discrimination case

LAFAYETTE La. The first black head football coach at any major Louisiana university has won a $2 million judgment in a law-suit claiming that the University of Louisiana at Lafayette fired him because of his race, not because his teams lost 80 percent of their games.

October 23, 2007

Students

University of Kentucky Trying to Defend Image After Racially Charged Cartoon, Death Threat

LEXINGTON Ky. A Southern university is trying to defend its image after the student newspaper published a cartoon of a black man being sold at auction and a racist death threat was scribbled on the door of a black student leader’s dorm room.

October 21, 2007

Community Colleges

Class in a “Classless” Society

Authors explore the role of social strata in our classrooms and communities.

October 21, 2007

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Anti-affirmative Action Activist Ward Connerly Comes to Missouri

COLUMBIA Mo. Having conquered California a decade ago and Michigan last year, affirmative action critic Ward Connerly now has his sights set on the Show-Me State.

October 21, 2007

Health

Scholars: Institutional Racism a Mental Health Issue For Black Youth and Families

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. Some behavioral problems in Black youths can be attributed to their effort to protect themselves from racism, and is a “manifestation of depression,” one researcher told a panel at the seventh annual Diversity Challenge Conference at Boston College.

October 20, 2007

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Little Rock 9 honored at gala featuring former President Clinton

LITTLE ROCK Former President Clinton said that 50 years after nine black student integrated Little Rock Central, the world is still struggling with the “unfinished legacy” of looking past race, ethnicity and other differences.

September 23, 2007

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Black and white fades to gray in the home of the Jena 6

JENA La. It’s got all the elements of a Delta blues ballad from the days of Jim Crow: hangman’s nooses dangling from a shade tree; a mysterious fire in the night; swift deliberations by a condemning, all-white jury.

September 22, 2007

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Thousands rally in La. to support Jena 6

JENA La. Thousands of chanting demonstrators filled the streets of this little Louisiana town Thursday in support of six black teenagers initially charged with attempted murder in the beating of a white classmate.

September 19, 2007