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Judge Dismisses Suit Against AKA President and Sorority

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by eight members of the nation’s oldest black sorority, who accused the group’s president of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper compensation and spending sorority money on a wax statue of herself and other questionable purposes.

Barbara McKinzie, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority

Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13

Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.

A museum dedicated to the late Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson (pictured) opens on the Grambling State University campus on Feb. 13.

Faculty & Staff

Southern U. in Baton Rouge Nearing the ‘Point of Crisis’

Deep state budget cuts, forced by falling state revenue and a new focus on performance-based funding, is pushing Southern University of Baton Rouge (SUBR) to the brink of crisis, the school’s chancellor says.

Obama Budget Plans More for Education

Federal education programs would receive a 7-percent boost under the Obama administration’s proposed budget for next year, with Pell Grants and minority-serving institutions among those receiving small to moderate increases.

President Barack Obama

Leadership & Policy

JSU President Defends Black College ‘Unity’ Plan

Jackson State University (JSU) President Dr. Ronald Mason has received a sharp rebuke from Black lawmakers and supporters of historically Black colleges and universities over his proposal to unite JSU with the state’s other two historically Black universities.

African-American

U.S. Racial History Less Understood Among Post-Racial Generation, Scholars Say

After the election of President Barack Obama, some college students consider prejudice and racism as relics of American societal behavior.

Michelle Johnson

African-American

Protesters Reflect on Success of Student Sit-ins

Fifty years ago today, four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store, bought a few items, then sat down at the “Whites only” lunch counter and sparked a wave of civil rights protest that changed America.

Greensboro Four statue

African-American

Racial Threat Puts Ohio College on Alert, on Edge

An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over Black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.

Leadership & Policy

Minority Male Plight Demands Broad U.S. Action, College Board Says

A College Board report highlighting the “overwhelming barriers” U.S. minority males confront in becoming educated and productive citizens.

Minority males face overwhelming barriers to becoming productive citizens, report says.

African-American

Scholars Speak Out on Haiti

In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Diverse interviews three scholars of Haitian descent who study the island nation and teach its history and culture on the college level.

COMMUNITY COLLEGE FORUM : CELEBRATING A LEGACY OF DIVERSITY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Among longtime residents and higher education observers in and around Phoenix, South Mountain Community College (SMCC) has been known for 30 years as “the little college that could.”

African-American

Haiti’s History Created Bond With Many U.S. Blacks

While a terrible earthquake anywhere in the Caribbean would hit a sympathetic nerve in most Americans, Haiti holds a unique place in the hearts of many American Blacks.

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