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Newsroom Noose Fuels Racial Tensions at Minneapolis Community and Technical College

by Associated Press , November 16, 2007

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After complaints filed by Senah Yeboah-Sampong (left), online editor, and Sita Hinds, business manager of City College News (right), Margaret Campbell (center) – editor of the student paper – fired the news editor who hung the noose from the newsroom ceiling.

Earlier this year at Macalester College in St. Paul, college officials condemned an incident at a campus house party where a student in blackface wore a noose around his neck, accompanied by a student dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member.

This fall, Hamline University in St. Paul suspended six football players from the team for wearing blackface and dressing as African tribesmen during an off-campus Halloween party.

--Associated Press

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