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Urban League’s Morial: Educational Equity Essential to Economic Empowerment

Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League (NUL), sees proactivity and collaboration as a way to create a movement and drive social change, particularly toward equity in education.

February 28, 2018

Mixed Grades on Race, Gender Report Card for College Sports

The percentage of Black head coaches in Division I college basketball has declined the past 10 years. That startling development is among findings in the 2017 version of the annual College Sport Racial and Gender Report Card, released Wednesday by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida.

February 28, 2018

Dillard School of Nursing Reinstates Full Academic Offerings

Dillard University’s School of Nursing received initial approval from the Louisiana State Board of Nursing (LSBN) last week to actualize its pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing programs for the 2018-2019 academic year. The announcement last week ended a period of inactive admissions at Dillard for the pre-licensure baccalaureate and LPN-BSN nursing programs during the 2017-2018 academic year, following a […]

February 28, 2018

University Building Evacuated After Powder-Throwing ‘Stunt’

ORLANDO, Fla. — A building at the University of Central Florida in Orlando has been evacuated after campus police say someone wearing a LeBron James Miami Heat basketball jersey stood up in a classroom and threw powder in the air. University police said in a statement posted Wednesday on Twitter that the Business Administration building […]

February 28, 2018

Benedictine University to Shut Its Springfield Campus

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Benedictine University says the school will close its Springfield branch at the end of the 2018 spring semester and move students to other existing area sites. Adult degree-completion and graduate students currently attend classes at the Springfield branch campus and at employer-based and community locations. University officials cited capital improvement needs as […]

February 28, 2018

HBCU Leaders Meeting with Business Leaders at GOP Event

WASHINGTON — The leaders of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities got major face time in front of some of America’s top companies, such as Google, Starbucks and Walmart, on Tuesday at this year’s HBCU Fly-In, sponsored by congressional Republicans. The HBCU Fly-In started last year as a way for the colleges and universities […]

February 28, 2018

It’s My Body

It’s hard to explain what it feels like to know that, just a few generations ago, my great-great-grandmother was a slave woman whose body was controlled by a slave master. The knowledge becomes harder to stomach as I reflect on the past and realize what little has changed. When I gave birth to my child, […]

February 28, 2018

African American Pregnancy

Idaho Leaves Door Open to Action on Obamacare

Idaho is not ruling out the possibility of taking legal action if the Trump administration blocks its plan to allow the sale of healthcare coverage that does not abide by Obamacare’s mandates. Dean Cameron, the state’s insurance commissioner, hopes that any issues the administration has with Idaho’s plan can instead be hashed out during ongoing […]

February 28, 2018

College Uses Simulations to Teach Healthcare Students

WEST BURLINGTON, Iowa — Hospitals are constantly in need of nurses and other health care professionals, and those professionals must be prepared to care for patients with everything from pre-eclampsia to traumatic injuries. That’s why Southeastern Community College designed, built and equipped its Great River Health Systems Health Professions Building — named in recognition of […]

February 28, 2018

Healthcare Simulations

Meeting Nursing Demands Through Diversity

For the past decade, the nursing profession has made diversity a priority. While the numbers in the profession — less than 25 percent minority nurses — do not yet mirror the general population of the United States — 38 percent non-White people — solid efforts and strategies are at work to facilitate change. In the […]

February 28, 2018

Nursing Diversity

Trump Blames McCain for ACA Loss

President Donald Trump called out Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for not supporting Republican legislation to repeal the ACA this past summer during a Friday address to the Conservative Political Action Committee, where he also lauded the GOP’s new healthcare strategy, according to The Hill. Mr. McCain cast the decisive vote against a “skinny” repeal of the ACA in […]

February 28, 2018

Geneticist Unravels Race and Health Risks

You’ve probably seen the statistics: African-Americans experience significantly higher risks for cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, stroke, and certain cancers compared to white and Hispanic Americans. But while the health disparities between different racial and ethnic groups are undeniably real, experts say, the way we traditionally think about race and disease risk is flawed. Read […]

February 28, 2018

Genetic Health Risks

Congress Opens Door to Paid Family Leave

The goal to pass a national paid family leave law has turned a corner in the halls of Congress, with conservatives showing more openness to taking action after President Trump declared support for the benefit. Advocates who have long pushed for paid family leave say that the level of interest by lawmakers has been unprecedented, […]

February 28, 2018

Paid Family Leave

Study: SNAP Doesn’t Even Cover a Cheap Meal

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Most Americans receiving food assistance benefits can’t afford the cost of an average low-income meal, a new national study reported on the heels of the federal government’s proposal to limit the program. The study from the Urban Institute reported that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) fell short of affording an average […]

February 28, 2018

SNAP Food Assistance

America Remains Divided 50 Years After Kerner

Healing is still needed and America’s racial wounds are still raw, according to the 50-year update released Tuesday by the Eisenhower Foundation as part of its ongoing follow-up to the original report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, commonly known as the Kerner Commission.

February 27, 2018

Brown Partners with Art Center to Host Rosa Parks’ House

Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (CSSJ) and WaterFire Providence have partnered to host civil rights activist Rosa Parks’ former home before residing permanently at another location in the U.S. chosen by artist Ryan Mendoza.

February 27, 2018

FILE PHOTO OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST ROSA PARKS AT MEDAL CEREMONY INWASHINGTON.

Cultural Biases Persist in National Licensure Exam for Teachers

Weighing a pig won’t make it fatter, and racist exams will not increase the number of teachers of color and American Indian teachers in the nation’s classrooms.

February 27, 2018

Where Is the Village When We Need It?

I grew up in the East Winston section of Winston-Salem, N.C. Our neighborhood was close-knit, as we knew our neighbors. In fact, we knew who the neighbors were that stayed three and four streets over from where we lived. As kids, we all knew one another and spent a lot of time in each other’s homes.

February 27, 2018

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