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Students

#BlackTwitter Fires Up Social Movements

If you want to know at any given moment what a portion of Black America is concerned with or talking about, plug into the rapidly exploding social media phenomenon referred to as Black Twitter.

August 6, 2015

Students

Pennsylvania Police Nominee Wants More Diversity

Gov. Tom Wolf’s new nominee to lead the Pennsylvania State Police said Tuesday that he sees room for improvement in the diversity of troopers and that better recruiting practices could help.

August 6, 2015

African-American

In Tech Boom, Oldest Chinatown in U.S. Is “Last Frontier”

For a century and a half, San Francisco’s Chinatown, the nation’s oldest, has sheltered waves of immigrants. It’s the birthplace of Chinese America, and to some extent, the broader Asian America.

July 28, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Push for Wage Reform Continues in NY

Rather than ending New York’s long debate over the minimum wage, the plan to give a big pay bump to fast-food workers guarantees the debate will continue in the halls of the state Capitol for years to come.

July 28, 2015

Faculty & Staff

With Africa Tour, Obama Establishes Himself as the “Diversity” President

And you thought President Obama singing “Amazing Grace” at the Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s wake in Charleston was a bold statement of his identity as an African- American president.

July 26, 2015

Leadership & Policy

In Case You Missed It…

Stakeholders Question Changes to FAMU-FSU Joint College of Engineering NAACP to March From Selma to Washington, D.C. ED Enforces Complaint System for Colleges and Universities Higher Ed Diversity Officers Bound for Cuba

July 16, 2015

Faculty & Staff

NAACP Growing Youth Numbers

Despite criticism that the NAACP has not done enough to bring more youth into the organization, the NAACP has seen its youth numbers increase in the wake of the recent deaths of unarmed Black men.

July 12, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Student Activists in Thailand Seen Before Military Court

BANGKOK ― A military court in Thailand freed 14 student activists from detention Tuesday ahead of their trial but said they still face sedition charges ― and up to seven years in prison ― for defying the junta’s ban on political gatherings.

July 7, 2015

African-American

Same-Sex Fight Not Over

Obama’s polarizing Friday shows the fight for same-sex equality still isn’t over.

June 29, 2015

Home

Analyst: Student Debt an Issue for 2016 Presidential Candidates

In order to win the White House in 2016, the candidate will have to develop a higher education agenda that deals with student debt, a political analyst says.

June 24, 2015

Leadership & Policy

An Open Letter from Orangeburg to Charleston

If the lessons learned from “yesterday’s sorrow” do not frame new patterns of action which abort or prevent “tomorrow’s” insult or injury, then what does ‘I am sorry’ really mean?

June 23, 2015

Faculty & Staff

2nd Trial Begins in Conservative’s Bias Claim Against University of Iowa

After years of arguing that liberal Iowa law professors illegally derailed her career, a conservative lawyer will get a second chance to prove her claim to a jury.

June 22, 2015