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Black students protested at Kent State University Thursday, calling the school’s response to repeated racist messages painted on a campus rock lackluster, Cleveland.com reported. According to Cleveland.com, a group called Black United Students issued a set of demands to the university that called on university officials to address systemic racism. Junior Maria Finney has been […]

September 11, 2020 | : “You are so articulate.” “You should smile more.” “Your English is good.” “You’re not like the others.” “What country were you really born in?” These are some of examples of microaggressions highlighted in the Air Education and Training Command’s new video. To establish a more inclusive environment within the United

September 11, 2020 | : Martin Methodist College and the University of Tennessee System signed a nonbinding letter of intent Friday, taking the first step in discussions for the small, 150-year-old, private, liberal arts college to join the UT System, according to University of Tennessee officials. The partnership would provide southern Middle Tennessee families access

September 11, 2020 | : The Numotion Foundation has established the Numotion Foundation Scholarship Fund in partnership with United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to provide tuition and housing assistance for African American students living with mobility-related disabilities, HME Business reported. According to HME Business, the foundation has committed $20,000 for the next three years –

September 11, 2020 | : A grim, June 2, 2020 YouTube video of Richmond, Virginia, Mayor Levar Stoney painfully conveys the crisis at hand for underrepresented leaders. Stoney, the thirty-nine-year-old lawyer who presides over a city still known today as the “Capital of the Confederacy,” happens to be Black, which in this particular moment was

It is the start of a new academic year, and among the array of icebreaker activities that educators use is the “name story”, wherein students describe the origin of their names and what they mean to them. My mother would tell me that while in the hospital bed for my birth, she flipped through the

September 10, 2020 | : Popular music scholar Melissa A. Weber – also known as award-winning performer and broadcaster DJ Soul Sister – has been tapped to teach “History of Urban Music,” a new course offered in Loyola University’s Urban and Electronic Music Production undergraduate degree program. Weber has a 25-year career as a show

Fred Price Jr., the Citadel’s board chairman resigned Wednesday when he sat down to testify before a state legislative screening panel, The Post and Courier reported. Price has faced criticism from Republican state Sen. Stephen Goldfinch, a Citadel graduate, who opposed a new school policy – called the sophomore shuffle – “that moved freshmen into

September 10, 2020 | : Maryland Delegate Julian Ivey wants to give the state’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) greater independence by separating their governance from the University System of Maryland, Delmarva Now reported. According to Delmarva Now, the bill – which Ivey said is still being drafted – if passed by the General