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Racist Incidents, Protests Spread at UC Campuses

A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread Tuesday as UC San Diego announced a KKK-style hood was found on campus and students in Los Angeles and Irvine demonstrated against intolerance.

Online Debate Rages Over White Team’s Step Competition Win

A white Arkansas sorority team’s win in an Atlanta step competition has stirred a fiery debate over the African-inspired tradition and whether the integration of a once-ethnically-exclusive activity constitutes a form of cultural theft.

African-American

Obama Signs Black College Executive Order

President Barack Obama has signed an executive order strengthening the long-standing White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

HBCU Executive Order Signing

Ex-Obama Adviser Will Become Princeton Fellow

President Barack Obama’s former “green jobs” adviser will teach at Princeton University.

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Black History Month Special: Oberlin’s Celebrated, But Difficult History

In his new book, the Oberlin emeritus archivist and professor of history talks about how his book painstakingly unravels clues of how the college faced the challenges of establishing a racially and culturally diverse institution from 1835 up to 2007.

Dr. Roland M. Baumann’s book

Decades in the Making, Ellison’s Unfinished Second Novel Emerges as Essential Read

Edited by scholars and published by Random House, Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting…The Unfinished Second Novel is a stirring, 1,000-plus page testimony to a process the brilliant author began soon after his masterpiece Invisible Man was written.

Three Days Before The Shooting

HBCU Case Study Documents How Schools Can Help Students Pay Back Loans

A new report released Tuesday called “Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed,” argues that institutions can work proactively to reduce default rates among former students.

UC-San Diego Condemns Party Mocking Black History

The chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, is condemning a ghetto-themed party organized by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but officials say no one is likely to be disciplined.

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Racially-Targeted Billboard Campaign Links African-Americans, Abortion

Among African-American leaders opposing a racially-targeted pro-life billboard campaign, Spelman College professor Beverly Guy-Sheftall called the effort a gimmick to “bait Black people” into becoming anti-abortion.

Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Faculty & Staff

Black Professor Denied Tenure at Emerson Vindicated by Report

Emerson College has released a report produced by an independent panel that has found fault with the institution’s tenure process.

Leaders Mark 50th Anniversary of Nashville Sit-ins

Civil rights leaders observing Saturday’s 50th anniversary of the sit-in movement that would integrate Nashville’s lunch counters said that pivotal group of college students went on to become leaders in the civil rights movement across the South.

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WVU Reprinting Long-lost African American Works

West Virginia University Press is reprinting important African American texts that have either gone unnoticed for generations or fallen out of print.

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