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HBCUs

University of Nevada, Reno Prof Loses Flash Drive with Students’ Personal Information

RENO Nev. A University of Nevada, Reno professor has lost a flash drive that contains the names and Social Security numbers of 16,000 current and former students, according to school officials.

October 30, 2007

LGBTQ+

Perspectives: Hanging Nooses, Hate Pose a National Health Risk

Addressing, preventing and eradicating hate is not just a “Black issue,” it is a human rights issue, says this group of psychology faculty from Pepperdine University. If we, as a nation, fail to address it, we are at risk for regression, for descending into a previous state of unhealthy functioning. Choice and free will are important concepts in mental health. What is our will as a nation? Do we choose to ignore these signs of impending illness and let the sickness of racism ravage the soul of our nation?

October 30, 2007

Latinx

New Mexico Attorney General Investigating Possible Hate Crime at UNM

The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office is looking into whether a student violated any hate crime laws by allegedly posting hateful messages against Hispanics on the Internet following the desecration of the Mexican flag at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

October 29, 2007

Sports

Duquesne Basketball Shooter Gets Up to 40 Years

PITTSBURGH The gunman who wounded five Duquesne University basketball players after a school dance last year pleaded guilty Friday and will spend up to 40 years in prison.

October 25, 2007

Home

Perspectives: On Nooses, Blacks and Dogs In America

The United States of America is in the midst of waging an all-out global “War on Terror.” However, in this writer’s estimation, not enough attention is focused on America’s own homegrown, longstanding domestic terrorism: racial violence against African-Americans.

October 25, 2007

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Bail Increased for Delaware State University Shooting Suspect After Victim Dies

DOVER, Del. A judge raised bail Wednesday for the man accused of shooting two people at Delaware State University after one of the victims died.

October 23, 2007

Students

University of Oklahoma Regents Could Relax Alcohol Policy

OKLAHOMA CITY University of Oklahoma regents will consider slightly relaxing the school’s “Three Strikes Policy” for alcohol use that was put into effect after a student’s death from alcohol poisoning three years ago.

October 23, 2007

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N.Y. Considers Felony For Display Of Noose

ALBANY N.Y. Following a growing use of a threatening image, New York state’s Legislature on Monday moved toward making a felony of etching, drawing, painting or displaying a noose.

October 22, 2007

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What Scholars Make of the Noose Incidents

While some have suggested that the hangman’s noose has been deduced to a hoax planted only to get a quick rise from the media and people of color, scholars say there is much to be concerned about.

October 20, 2007

Students

Police Investigating Racial Graffiti Found at Rider University

TRENTON N.J. Police on Tuesday were investigating who was behind racial graffiti found scrawled inside a residence hall at Rider University’s campus in Lawrenceville.

October 16, 2007

Students

Lawmakers Hammer Federal Officials Over Jena 6 Case

WASHINGTON Democratic lawmakers denounced federal authorities Tuesday for not intervening in the highly publicized case of six Black high school students charged with the beating of a White student, citing racist noose-hanging incidents far beyond the attack in the small Louisiana town of Jena.

October 15, 2007

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House Panel Weighs Jena 6 Case on Tuesday

WASHINGTON Civil rights activist Al Sharpton says Congress should expand hate crime laws to deal more forcefully with noose-hanging incidents like the one in the Jena Six case in order to squelch what he called a sharp rise in racism.

October 15, 2007