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Five from Southern Miss Pep Band Disciplined

Southern Mississippi has revoked the scholarships of five members of its pep band who took part in the heckling of a Kansas State basketball player at last Thursday’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament game.

March 21, 2012

Two Hundred Interviewed in Penn State Investigation

Former FBI chief Louis Freeh and his investigators have conducted 200 interviews in their probe of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, asking questions that go beyond the charges against retired coach Jerry Sandusky.

March 21, 2012

African-American

Commentary: Women’s Colleges, HBCUs Have Nurtured the Best and the Brightest

Researchers have empirically demonstrated that children’s health outcomes, social standing and educational achievement can all be traced to the mother’s successes and aspirations.

March 21, 2012

Pamela Trotman Reid

An Editor’s Journey: Seeing Haiti’s Future in the Village of Hope

In this second story of a two-part series, Diverse senior editor Yvette Moy recounts how her volunteer team spent the last three days of a week-long Haiti trip reconnecting with the children she and others began helping almost three years ago.

March 21, 2012

Haitian children

High Court Won’t Hear Appeal by Christian Groups in California

The lawsuit filed in 2005 said the plaintiffs should be allowed to insist members follow their religious standards of conduct and avoid sex outside of marriage between a man and woman.

March 20, 2012

Commentary: No Real Clarity After the Rutgers Verdict

Housing issues are no small thing, with the need for practical systems to deal with roommate complaints and disputes.

March 20, 2012

An Editor’s Journey: Return to Haiti

A first-time visitor to Haiti in 2009, Diverse senior editor Yvette Moy returned to the tiny Caribbean nation last month to join a building project near Port-Au-Prince, the capital city, and to document the progress of the country’s rebound from the devastating 2010 earthquake. This is the first in a two-part series.

March 20, 2012

Until Justice Weighs Down — Trayvon’s Story

Trayvon Martin has really been weighing heavily on my mind. I thought of him as I watched my daughter and her little elementary school classmates recite their winning oratories at their Speech Meet earlier this week. I sat there thinking that what happened to Trayvon could happen to any one of those little Black boys […]

March 19, 2012

Rutgers University Spycam Case Stirs Debate Over Hate Crime Laws

The gist of the verdict: Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was convicted Friday of anti-gay intimidation for using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate’s love life.

March 19, 2012

Rutgers University

African-American

Professional Institute Emphasizes Fundraising Basics for Public HBCUs

Universities that launch successful fundraising campaigns do more than just pick a financial goal, a University of Miami executive told conference attendees on Monday at the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s Member Universities Professional Institute.

March 19, 2012

Sergio Gonzalez

Summit Addresses Best Ways to Increase High School Graduation and College Enrollment Rates Among Hispanics

Caring adults can play a role in improving the outcomes of youths born into families of lesser economic means in addition to school reform at the local, state and federal levels.

March 19, 2012

Jose Antonio Tijerino

Students Footing More of Bill for Public Higher Education

Study shows with public colleges now getting more than 43 percent of their revenues from student tuition as opposed to state and local taxpayers, compared to less than 30 percent as recently as a decade ago.

March 18, 2012

The Black Woman’s Burden

As African-American women rise in ranks, their accomplishments, education, successes and contributions are frequently shadowed by the realities of misperceptions and stigmas that can potentially mar their legacy.

March 18, 2012

Novelist Toni Morrison

What Should Follow the Dharun Ravi Verdict?

The Rutgers University case sheds light on many negative situations that LGBT students often face in colleges and universities around the country.

March 18, 2012

Shane Windmeyer

African-American

FAMU Provost Steps Down

Dr. Larry Robinson, who returned to FAMU last November as professor and special assistant to the president after a brief stint with the Obama Administration, immediately replaces Dr. Cynthia Hughes Harris as provost.

March 18, 2012

Dr.Cynthia Hughes Harris

Commentary: Until Justice Weighs Down — Trayvon’s Story

Trayvon Martin’s story should be the proverbial smack across the face that most Americans need to disabuse them of the notion that we are somehow living in a “post-racial” or “post-Black” era.

March 15, 2012

Great Women, Great Books

All the debate and acrimony over restraints on women’s reproductive rights in the current presidential campaign season has some of us longing for some good old-fashioned, mid-20th Century, no-holds-barred feminists to jump into the fray.

March 15, 2012

Study: Young People Not So ‘Green’ After All

An academic analysis of surveys has found that today’s young Americans are less interested in the environment and often less civic-minded overall than their elders were when they were young.

March 15, 2012