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Belhaven U Renames Hall That Petition Says Is Named After a Segregationist

Mississippi’s Belhaven University, a private Christian institution, has changed the name of a hall that a petition said was named after a segregationist. The university didn’t give a reason for the name change. Guy T. Gillespie Hall was named after a former president of Belhaven. It will now be called Lakeview Hall. Additionally, a gathering […]

Rutgers’ First Black President Announces the Institution Will Keep Its Name Despite Slavery Connection

Rutgers University’s first Black president, Dr. Jonathan Holloway, announced that he doesn’t plan to change the university’s name, which commemorates slave owner and Revolutionary War veteran Henry Rutgers, NJ.com reported. “The reason we’re not going to change the name is that names have value that exceed someone’s existence,” Holloway said at his first press conference […]

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Some Princeton Grad Students Say Name Change Isn’t Enough to Address Racism

While Princeton University’s decision to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from its school of public policy roughly a week ago came as good news to many, the school’s graduate students continue to stress that “changing the name, though long overdue, cannot and will not be enough” to address systematic racism. In a letter written before the […]

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Howard Cancels Its Homecoming Citing COVID-19 Concerns

Howard University’s Howard Homecoming — an historic and annual event which typically attracts tens of thousands of people to the institution — has been cancelled for 2020, reports ABC 7 WJLA news. Due to the large crowds Howard Homecoming draws, the event would be too difficult to conduct safely in the age of COVID-19, said […]

Ex-Syracuse Athlete Group Launches Anti-Racism Social Media Campaign

Black Oranges, a group of former Syracuse University (SU) student athletes of color, launched the social media campaign #GetOffTheBench on July 4th to encourage others to act against systemic racism. After Ahmaud Arbery was murdered in February, former SU football player Brian Tarrant wanted to organize with others who were “angry.” He sent a Facebook […]

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Hampton University Goes Remote-Only for Fall Semester

Hampton University (HU) announced plans to continue remote-only learning for the fall semester. With 2.9 million COVID-19 cases and 130,000 deaths in the U.S. as of July 6, the decision was made “out of an abundance of caution for the health, safety and welfare of our students as well as the faculty, administrative staff, administrators, […]

LeMoyne-Owen College Receives Largest Gift in the Institution’s History

LeMoyne-Owen College – an historically Black college based in Memphis, Tennessee – is quadrupling its current endowment thanks to $40 million from the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. It’s the biggest gift in the institution’s history, the school announced on Thursday. The college will annually receive 5%, about $2 million, of the average balance. Christopher […]

ICE: Foreign Students At Schools Switching Fully Online Must Leave US

On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that international students whose institutions are switching to online-only courses this fall semester must leave the country; otherwise, they risk violating their student visa status, The Hill reported. Previously, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) — or the ICE-directed organization that determines student visa rules — […]

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Top Basketball Recruit Makur Maker Chooses Howard Over UCLA

The highly-touted basketball recruit, Makur Maker, announced his commitment to Howard University on Friday, “becoming the highest-ranked college basketball prospect to commit to a historically Black college or university since the ESPN recruiting database started in 2007,” ESPN reported. According to ESPN, “Maker chose the Bison over UCLA, although Kentucky and Memphis were also on […]

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Dr. Nicole Pride Named President of West Virginia State University

West Virginia State University (WVSU) has appointed Dr. Nicole Pride its 12th president. Pride comes to WVSU from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University where she serves as vice provost for academic strategy and operations. “I am excited to join West Virginia State University. It is an institution with such a rich history, and […]

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Montgomery College Pulls Ads From Facebook, Supports ‘Stop Hate for Profit’ Campaign

Montgomery College has pulled its advertising from Facebook for the month of July to signal support for Stop Hate for Profit, a coalition demanding Facebook adopt policies that restrict the spread of racist and White supremacist messages on the platform. Since most of Facebook’s profit comes through advertising, the coalition – which includes the Anti-Defamation […]

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Alabama College Students Host ‘COVID Parties’ to Purposely Infect Each Other

College students in Tuscaloosa, Alabama have organized “COVID parties” to purposely infect each other with the virus. According to ABC News, the party organizers invite those who have tested positive for COVID-19 and place bets to see who will contract the virus first. There have been over 38,000 COVID-19 cases with 947 confirmed deaths in […]

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