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Support Program Aims to be Game-Changer

When Black student-athletes arrive on campus on a sports scholarship, their athletic performance too often is priority while education ends up on the sidelines.

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Tiger Woods Donates $10K to UMES for Golf Scholarship

Tiger Woods is donating $10,000 to the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, helping the university create a scholarship in the name of trailblazing golfer Charlie Sifford.

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California Community Colleges Team Up With HBCUs

The California Community College system and nine historically Black institutions have devised a transfer program linking the state’s 112 two-year colleges with the nation’s Black college community.

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Asian American Students Help Right Historical Wrong

The goal was achieved last week when the California Supreme Court granted a posthumous law license to Hong Yen Chang, who had been denied the right to practice as a result of race-based exclusion laws.

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Disciplinary Actions Against Black Girls Scrutinized

Concern over unfair treatment of Black girls in school has caused many to look at racial-ethnic differences in an academic setting.

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Oklahoma Student Who Led Racist Chant to Meet With Black Leaders

A former University of Oklahoma student who led a racist chant apologized personally to the leader of Oklahoma’s Legislative Black Caucus and plans to meet with more civic leaders before speaking publicly about the incident for the first time, a state senator said Wednesday.

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Spelman College Names Campbell Presidential Finalist

Dean emerita of New York University Tisch School of the Arts will visit Spelman’s campus Thursday and Friday.

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HACU Making Maintaining Accessibility of Pell Grants a Priority

Many low-income, first-generation-to-college students rely on Pell Grants. For Hispanic students, who in years past have been less likely to borrow money to fund their educations, the grants are particularly crucial.

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National Urban League Delivers Word to Higher Ed

The group’s Equality Index in its annual State of Black America report shows Blacks falling further behind Whites statistically in key quality of life indicators.

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Ex-Bob Jones President Apologizes for 1980 Anti-Gay Remarks

The former president of Bob Jones University has apologized for saying in 1980 that homosexuals should be stoned, calling his comments at the White House reckless and inflammatory.

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Complications of Race and Class Fuel Perceptions of UVA Incident

The recent incident in which a Black honors student at the University of Virginia was assaulted last week has fueled discussion about the ongoing trend of violence against Black males by those in authority.

Bill Protecting Campus Religious Groups Passes Kansas Senate

A proposal in Kansas for protecting religious groups on public college campuses that want to restrict memberships to like-minded believers is advancing in the Republican-dominated Legislature, and a leading gay-rights advocate calls it “a license to discriminate.”

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