Tag: Discrimination: Page 84

Delaware State Settles Discrimination Claim

Delaware State Settles Discrimination ClaimDOVER, Del.Attorneys for Delaware State University and a former professor at the historically Black university have reached a settlement in her discrimination lawsuit. Margaret McKay, a White political science professor stripped of her tenure and dismissed from the university last year, alleged that the school discriminated against her based on her […]

March 13, 2002

Georgia College Offers Scholarship to Amend Discrimination

Georgia College Offers Scholarship to Amend DiscriminationCARROLLTON, Ga.In 1955 and 1956, every senior at an all-Black high school in Carrollton applied to West Georgia College. All were rejected because of the color of their skin. Forty-five years later, the college has apologized, and an anonymous donor has created a scholarship fund for the descendants of […]

February 27, 2002

Eleventh Lawsuit Filed Against University’s Basketball Program

Eleventh Lawsuit Filed Against University’s Basketball ProgramTAMPA, Fla.An 11th woman has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the University of South Florida and its former women’s basketball coach, claiming racist treatment in the program. Last month Iris Fleming became the latest player to file suit in the case and her attorney, Jonathan Alpert, promised that […]

February 13, 2002

Asian American Pacific Islander

Dosing Out Lessons Of Diversity

Dosing Out Lessons Of DiversityBy Lydia Lum DEXHEIM, GermanyMy eyes were still adjusting to the auditorium lights flickering back on, as the crowd of young American soldiers swarmed me. I had just finished my slide-show talk about Angel Island — the Ellis Island of the West Coast and a major entry point for Chinese Americans. […]

November 7, 2001

Fighting The Good Fight

Fighting The Good Fight By Ronald RoachBlack Issues In Higher Education talks to renown human rights activist and author Randall Robinson about the Black American reparations movement. Robinson, who was formerly president of the Washington, D.C.-based TransAfrica advocacy organization and the TransAfrica Forum, has emerged as a central figure in the campaign to win reparations. […]

November 7, 2001

Moving Toward Reparations

Moving Toward ReparationsThe resurgence of the reparations movement is taking shape with Black leaders, intellectualsBy Ronald Roach In 1998, historically Black Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona, Fla., answered the Clinton administration’s call for colleges and universities to sponsor race relations discussions and events in support of President Clinton’s National Conversation on Race initiative. The Bethune-Cookman program, […]

November 7, 2001

Tuskegee Students Say Alabama Pub Discriminates

Tuskegee Students Say Alabama Pub Discriminates AUBURN, Ala.A bar owner’s lawyer says race was not a factor in his client’s recent exclusion of a group of Tuskegee University students from a “happy hour” drinks special open only to Auburn and Southern Union students. The Tuskegee students complained to the Auburn City Council about being denied […]

November 7, 2001

Racial Discrimination a Reality for Black Tourists, Researcher Finds

Racial Discrimination a Reality for Black Tourists, Researcher FindsGAINESVILLE, Fla.Travel for college-educated Blacks is often tainted by “the inescapable realities” of racial discrimination, new University of Florida research finds.Black tourists perceived racial discrimination when they stayed in hotels or motels, dined out, traveled by airplane or private vehicle and participated in activities such as shopping, […]

October 24, 2001

Survey Suggests Link between Racism, High Blood Pressure in African Americans

Survey Suggests Link between Racism, High Blood Pressure in African Americans ATLANTAResearchers at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta have provided the first empirical evidence suggesting that racism may be a contributing factor to the unusually high prevalence of high blood pressure and its attendant cardiovascular effects among African Americans. The connection was revealed […]

October 24, 2001

NAACP Asks University of Georgia Not to Appeal

NAACP Asks University of Georgia Not to Appeal Admissions Policy DecisionATHENS, Ga.The Georgia NAACP says it will ask the University of Georgia not to appeal a federal court ruling that said the school’s admissions policy is unconstitutional because it gives non-White students a statistical boost. Attorneys for the civil rights group said earlier this month […]

September 26, 2001

Education Department Nominee Facing Criticism in Senate

Education Department Nominee Facing Criticism in SenateThe Bush administration’s nominee for a senior Education Department post faces a rocky road to confirmation in the Senate because of his past opposition to affirmative action.Brian Jones, past president of the Center for New Black Leadership, is Bush’s choice to become the Education Department’s general counsel, which plays […]

September 26, 2001

Nominee for Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights May Face Opposition from Affirmative Action Advocates

Nominee for Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights May Face Opposition from Affirmative Action Advocates President Bush’s new choice to head the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights is an African American who has conservatives’ support but who may face opposition from groups that favor affirmative action.Bush in late June nominated Gerald Reynolds, […]

July 18, 2001

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