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Guillermo: HBCU Funding Latest Target of White House Threats to Diversity

Just look at what President Trump is doing to HBCUs, and maybe all programs based on race, ethnicity, or gender.

President Donald J. Trump

Saban’s Contract Extension Raises Player Compensation Questions

The news that University of Alabama football coach will now be paid about $11.125M a year rekindled conversation about whether college athletes should get paid.

Dr. Marcus Bright

Top Court Upholds Death Sentence for Rape that Shocked India

NEW DELHI — India’s top court on Friday upheld the death sentences of four men who were convicted in the fatal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old medical student on a moving bus in the Indian capital nearly five years ago. The court held that the nature of the crime, which triggered massive protests across […]

Sorority Ousts 25 Members at University of Nebraska

LINCOLN, Neb. — National officials have dismissed 25 members from the Delta Delta Delta sorority at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln following reports of underage drinking. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that the national sorority office began an investigation in February after university officials raised concerns about a student taken to a hospital over an incident […]

American University Student President Targeted with Online Harassment

WASHINGTON — American University in Washington is providing campus police officers to protect the student body president and her family now that she’s getting harassed online after enduring racist taunts earlier this week. AU officials say a “White supremacist” wrote a post asking people to harass Taylor Dumpson. She’s the first Black woman to be […]

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‘Black Cousin’ Remark at Commencement Sparks Criticism

BOISE, Idaho — A Boise businesswoman says she meant no offense for the remarks she made during a University of Idaho commencement address that has since sparked criticism from attendees. Meg Carlson, president and CEO of Boise-based Prosperity Organic Foods, has come under scrutiny while talking about accepting a job nearly 30 years ago inside […]

Colleges are Hotbeds for Inappropriate Behavior

It appears that racism has no boundaries. It rears its distasteful head in too many places and spaces that we hold dear to us.

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Marc Lamont Hill Leaving Morehouse College for Temple U.

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill — one of the nation’s most visible and prolific Black intellectuals — is leaving Morehouse College to begin an endowed professorship at Temple University.

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill

The Black Male Blueprint of Educational Advancement

The key to reaching Black males lies in the willingness of parents, teachers, counselors, administrators, and community stakeholders to invest the time in understanding these young men individually and not collectively.

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Black Members of Congress Demand Probe of Nooses at American University

WASHINGTON — The hanging of bananas from nooses with hateful messages at American University in Washington, apparently targeting the first Black woman to serve as the student body president, prompted members of Congress to call for federal civil rights investigations on Thursday. At least five bananas with nooses were found hanging from trees and lampposts […]

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Diverse Docket: Judge Tosses Bias Suit Against City College of S.F.

A federal judge has dismissed a former student’s discrimination suit against the City College of San Francisco, finding insufficient evidence that a racially hostile environment existed.

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University of Georgia Builds On Lessons Learned from Slave Cemetery

As the University of Georgia prepares to delve into its past, activists hope that it will remain sensitive to the impact that history still has on the present.

The university reburied the remains in Oconee Hill Cemetery last month.

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