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African-American

Bill Maher Controversy Needs to be Kept in Perspective

While we need to continue to have debates on the n-word and other topics that affect our community, it is important that we not get sidetracked from crucial economic, legal, social and issues that directly impact us on a daily basis.

June 11, 2017

Students

In Maryland Desegregation Case, Black Colleges Seek Protected ‘Academic Niches’

Historically Black colleges in Maryland should have the right to offer unique, high-demand courses that cannot be duplicated at nearby traditionally White colleges, lawyers argued Thursday in the closing remarks of the remedy phase of a desegregation case.

June 8, 2017

Latinx

Rodriguez: The X in LatinX

This development has happened due to issues relating to the fluidity of gender — a recognition that there is not simply a male-female binary.

June 7, 2017

African-American

Uncomfort Zone: Time for Higher Ed to Address Race and Class

Many higher education institutions have made tremendous strides in addressing disparities in the area of race and class. There is, however, a long way to go.

June 6, 2017

Students

Excellence Does Not Shield Black Students from Racism

Excellence does not shield Black students from the challenges of being Black in America.

June 6, 2017

Students

Rodriguez: Affirming a Macehual or Gente de Maiz Identity

A couple years ago, someone from California wrote me to tell me that: “Mexicans are taking over Chicano Studies.” Apparently, the person did not know I was born in Mexico. And they knew less about what this topic triggers within me. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I did become part of the Chicano […]

June 5, 2017

African-American

NCORE a Logical Place to Advance Conversations About Race

If anyone was ever under the illusion that the election of Barack Obama had somehow signaled that the nation had become post-racial, the recent spate of racist incidents should convince us otherwise

June 4, 2017

Students

Barbara Smith Conrad’s Voice Would Not Be Silenced

A series of unexpected events eventually earned Barbara Smith Conrad a place in history with Marian Anderson and other women who became opera legends.

June 4, 2017

Students

63 Years after Brown, Segregated Schools Fight Takes Interesting Turn

Brown vs Board of Education removed the barrier of denying people of color their right to an education, but 63 years later the fight to ensure that students attend a “good school” continues.

June 1, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Princeton Professor Cancels Lectures After Speech Leads to Threats

TRENTON, N.J. — A Princeton University professor says she canceled lectures this week after receiving death threats following a commencement address in which she called President Donald Trump “a racist and sexist megalomaniac.” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, an assistant professor of African American Studies at the Ivy League school in New Jersey, spoke to graduates at Hampshire […]

June 1, 2017

Women

Muslim Activist Critical of Israel is Cheered at Graduation

NEW YORK — A Muslim-American activist whose role as a commencement speaker had come under protest from critics opposing her stance on Israel was given a standing ovation by graduating students Thursday after she told them they must commit to demanding change. “We in this room together must commit to never being bystanders to poverty, […]

June 1, 2017

Students

NCORE Kicks Off with Call to Activism

The proliferation of racist incidents on college campuses, as well as the spate of police shootings of unarmed Black men and efforts by some states to engage in voter suppression were cited as reasons why NCORE still needs to exist.

May 31, 2017