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Leadership & Policy

University of the West Indies Team Triumphs at HBCU Business Plan Competition

More than 300 students from 21 historically or predominantly Black colleges competed, presenting business proposals that ranged from construction and land surveying improvements to the mass production of Jamaican ginger.

Faculty & Staff

Cornell University Provost Blasted for Plan to Move Africana Center

Controversial plan to embed Africana Studies and Research Center in College of Arts and Sciences rankles students, faculty at Cornell University.

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.

Candid Race Talk Launches College Sports Symposium

Expert panelists detailed how lucrative college sports competition have led many to ask whether athletes in men’s basketball and football programs are exploited while others profit immeasurably.

Richard Lapchick

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.

Martin Meraz-Garcia

African-American

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick Chronicles His Life in New Book

In his book A Reason to Believe, the Massachusetts Democrat tells his version of the American rags to riches story, chronicling what he dubs his “improbable” rise from a broken home and poverty on Chicago’s South Side to the upper echelons of American politics.

Coming Out: The Story of One Openly Gay Athlete

For all of the progress gays and lesbians have made in America, from the legalization of gay marriage in five states and the District of Columbia to the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in December, the sports world both here and abroad remains firmly closeted.

African-American

NAACP, Newt Gingrich Urge Prison Reform

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released a report on Thursday that said between 1987 and 2007, state prison spending grew at six times the rate of higher education spending.

Native Americans

Online Course Helping American Indian Leaders Improve Tribal Governance

A new online course is giving tribal nations the information they need to take control of their own governments.

Online tribal education

FAMU Board Approves President’s Restructuring Plan

A total of 89 jobs will be lost directly related to the plan, while another 109 employees will be laid off on June 30 because they were funded by the federal stimulus program.

Oklahoma’s GOP Lawmakers Push to Abolish Affirmative Action

A Republican-backed plan to wipe out any affirmative action programs in Oklahoma appears headed for approval by the Legislature, prompting a bitter response from some minority lawmakers that it is merely a political ploy to play on racial fears.

Dr. Keenan Grenell

CIAA Tournament Draws Record Crowd to Charlotte

Attendance for official CIAA functions topped 190,000 and provided an economic impact of $44.3 million, a 19 percent increase from last year.

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