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Harvard To Review Campus Police After Complaints

Harvard University is reviewing its campus police department amid concerns officers have unfairly stopped Black people because of their race.

August 28, 2008

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Death Penalty to be Sought in N.C. Student Slaying

Prosecutors said Monday they plan to seek the death penalty against a man charged in the kidnapping and fatal shooting of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student body president Eve Carson.

August 11, 2008

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Spending Scandal at Texas Southern Ends Quietly

Students at Texas Southern University often have to work their way through college, and most of them need financial aid to follow in the footsteps of alumni Barbara Jordan and Mickey Leland at the historically Black, open-enrollment university.

July 10, 2008

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Former Professor Accused of Ga. Contract Killing of Son’s Wife

Theirs was a whirlwind relationship: The 18-year-old running his dad’s hotel in Kentucky and the 20-year-old Atlanta native hired as a clerk.

June 17, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Eastern Mich. Agrees to Pay $350K in Fines in Killing Case

Eastern Michigan University has agreed to pay $350,000 in fines for covering up the rape and killing of a student in her dorm room by telling reporters and her parents there were no signs of foul play.

June 8, 2008

Students

False Alarms

Attention-seeking students fabricate crimes to generate the media and community response that real campus tragedies command.

May 14, 2008

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Metal Detectors Installed in Jackson State Dorms

Students residing in Dixon and Alexander Residence Halls at Jackson State University must now walk through metal detectors upon entry into the buildings.

May 5, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Philadelphia Mayor Takes Part in Community College Black Male Summit

Numerous organizations intent on reversing alarming disparities in high school and college drop out and incarceration rates among Black males gathered in Philadelphia this week for a Call to Action Summit, sponsored by the Presidents’ Round Table of African-American CEOs, a group of Black community college presidents.

April 8, 2008

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University of Richmond investigates possible hate crime

Police at the University of Richmond are investigating the simulated lynching of a miniature Black doll.

April 6, 2008

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Letters

NEEDED: OTHER FORMS OF EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION  One thing that concerns me about this and other articles (see “Emergency Notification in an Instant,” March 6) about emergency notification efforts is the emphasis that is placed on sending messages to student cell phones. We are a nonresidential college, so our students are pretty much only on campus […]

April 2, 2008

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Author Touts Cell Phones as Vital Economic Resource for the Poor

Citing strong evidence that cell phones play a critical role in the economic prospects of low-income Americans, a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in association with a Washington think tank, reports that wider cell phone use could lead to income gains for the poor from $2.9 billion to $11 billion annually by simply allowing the poorest American households to be in touch with potential employers and other job resources.

March 26, 2008

HBCUs

Suspects Arrested in Case of HBCU Campus Gunfire

Recent shootings on and around college campuses nationwide have caused many to question the overall safety of schools.

March 24, 2008