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Report: Judiciary Decision Making Swayed by Race and Ethnicity

Comprehensive study reveals judges’ race affects outcomes in workplace racial harassment cases.

April 5, 2010

African-American

Virginia College To Examine Its Racial History

The College of William and Mary is examining its role as a slave owner and its discrimination against Black people for decades after the Civil War and will look at current race relations.

April 1, 2010

STEM

Post-racialism Threatens Equal Protection Jurisprudence, Legal Scholars Say

Law professors at a Georgetown law school symposium Friday criticized the belief that race no longer matters as a factor in how Americans are treated by the nation’s legal system.

March 28, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Virginia HBCUs Struggle With Legal Opinion That Bars Protection for Gays

Virginia’s historically Black colleges and universities are reeling after a controversial legal opinion by Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli that would invalidate any policy erected by public colleges that bans discrimination against gays and lesbians.

March 9, 2010

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Coming to Grips With Negrophobia

Though they share heritage and language, the relationship between Black Latin Americans and their lighter compatriots is marred by historical denial, discrimination and denigration.

February 17, 2010

Faculty & Staff

Black Professor Denied Tenure at Emerson Vindicated by Report

Emerson College has released a report produced by an independent panel that has found fault with the institution’s tenure process.

February 15, 2010

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Trial to Start on Demotion of UW-Whitewater Dean

A trial expected to begin Monday will recall an ugly chapter at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, when two Black administrators were each demoted within months for misusing university credit cards.

February 7, 2010

LGBTQ+

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES & EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: Untangling The Web

You may face rejection and naysayers, but that voice that says “no” should not be inside of you.

January 6, 2010

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LETTERS : STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE AND LEGALITY: HBCU FAT DISCRIMINATION

I am a plump African-American professor at an HBCU and a national expert on media weight discrimination and people of color in the professoriate. I am concerned about some of the statements in Dr. Marybeth Gasman’s response

December 23, 2009

African-American

Advocates Want More Help for Jobless Blacks

Citing different approaches needed for those hardest hit by joblessness, scholars say chronically high Black unemployment defies easy solutions when both discrimination and low education attainment are among factors plaguing African-American job seekers.

December 22, 2009

Women

Civil Rights Commission Probes Possible Gender Bias at Colleges

A federal civil rights agency investigating possible gender discrimination in college admissions will subpoena data from more than a dozen mid-Atlantic universities, officials said Thursday.

December 17, 2009

Students

Perspectives: The Role of Privilege in Diversity Education

I am a White heterosexual male who works in a diversity education office. I am a White heterosexual male who works in a diversity education office.  My presence as a person who retains several privileged cultural identities working in a diversity education office at an institution of higher education is a fact that seems counter-intuitive to many.

December 2, 2009