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Leadership & Policy

Tornado No Match for New Shaw University President

It’s been an unusual spring for Shaw University and new president Irma McClaurin as efforts have gotten underway to get the campus repaired from tornado damage.

May 12, 2011

Sports

Jury: Grambling State University Owes Fired Coach $460,500

Grambling attorney John Madison Jr. said the university will appeal the award, which includes $11,000 in penalty wages and $449,500 for breach of contract.

May 8, 2011

Home

Nigerian Native Overcame Obstacles on Way to Becoming Wayne State Graduation Speaker

Just hours prior to the Wayne State University commencement, Victor Chukwueke was reunited with his mother, who had not seen her son in nearly 10 years.

May 5, 2011

African-American

Museum Dedicated to Civil Rights Leader and Educator Benjamin Mays Opens

A museum dedicated to the life of Benjamin E. Mays, an educator who was an early inspiration to Martin Luther King Jr. and was often referred to as the father of the civil rights movement, opened last week.

May 2, 2011

Home

Southern Poverty Law Center Marks 40th Anniversary of Civil Rights Agenda

Education is key to the center that casts a wide net with its Teaching Tolerance curriculum in which roughly 15 percent of the subscribers are college education professors.

May 1, 2011

Leadership & Policy

State Rep. Hank Huckaby Named Finalist for Ga. Universities Post

By state law, the board must wait 14 days after naming finalists to officially vote on an appointment. Board of Regents Chairman Willis Potts said Huckaby is the right man for the moment.

April 24, 2011

Home

Recent Elections Stir Old Questions About Judicial Independence

Scholars are asking whether justice can prevail when state judges must decide between following the law and appeasing voters?

April 21, 2011

Faculty & Staff

Federal Courts Rebuff Faculty Discrimination Suits

In recent months, federal judges in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Arizona have dealt major setbacks to faculty members in lawsuits alleging racial discrimination at three universities.

April 19, 2011

African-American

S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley Angers Black Legislators over Medical School Board Removal

Earlier this month, the governor replaced Dr. Paula Orr, a Black woman, with dentist Harold Jablon of Columbia, who is White, on the Medical University of South Carolina board.

April 14, 2011

Latinx

Federal Program Helping Eastern Washington University Transform Lives

Dr. Christina Torres Garcia and her husband, Dr. Martin Meraz-Garcia, are Eastern Washington University professors and the first in their families to earn post-graduate degrees.

April 12, 2011

Home

Diversity award bestowed upon University of Colorado-Denver med school professor

Arthur Gutierrez-Hartmann’s efforts described as ‘tireless’ and critical to young investigators’ success.

April 11, 2011

Health

The State Of Health In Black America

When it comes to their health, too many African Americans are operating on the basis of the notion that it is better to not know.

April 11, 2011