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African-American

New Yorker is Dartmouth’s First Black Female Student Body President

Monik Whitney Walters isn’t afraid of people with different ideological beliefs – she likes to challenge herself by engaging them and seeking mutual understanding.

October 17, 2018

MSIs

Colin Kaepernick, Dave Chappelle and Others Receive Du Bois Medals at Harvard

Instead of taking a knee, Colin Kaepernick took home a prestigious award Thursday bestowed by Harvard University on those who’ve contributed greatly to African-American and African culture.

October 11, 2018

MSIs

Civil Rights Leader Makes History on Harvard Kennedy School Faculty

Harvard Kennedy School has appointed to its senior faculty, Cornell William Brooks, the former president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As a professor, Brooks — who is also a civil rights lawyer — will advise students, teach classes and launch and direct the William Monroe Trotter Collaborative for […]

August 30, 2018

MSIs

Travel and Reflections on Educating for Health Equity

I am connected to centuries of civil rights milestones that changed reality for African-American children like me. Now, as a medical educator, I use “my day job” to reach deep beneath the surface of society to the same streams that have systematically deflected and diminished the value of Americans of African descent since this nation’s founding.

August 9, 2018

HBCUs

Running for Maryland Governor, Ben Jealous Puts Focus on Education

At 45, Ben Jealous is looking to make history by becoming Maryland’s first Black governor, making access to higher education a central tenet of his grassroots campaign.

May 15, 2018

MSIs

Incidences of Campus Racial Intolerance Spark Calls for Change

Recent highly publicized incidences of racial intolerance at Duke, Yale, Colorado State and other universities have sparked calls for more proactive effort to make campuses more inclusive and welcoming to students of color.

May 10, 2018

MSIs

Linda Brown, Kansas Girl at Center of 1954 Brown V. Board of Education Ruling, Dies

TOPEKA, Kan. – Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down racial segregation in schools, has died at age 76. Topeka’s former Sumner School was all-White when her father, Oliver, tried to enroll the family. He became lead plaintiff in the 1954 Brown v. Board […]

March 26, 2018

HBCUs

Urban League’s Morial: Educational Equity Essential to Economic Empowerment

Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League (NUL), sees proactivity and collaboration as a way to create a movement and drive social change, particularly toward equity in education.

February 28, 2018

MSIs

New NAACP Youth Leader a Skilled Organizer

Tiffany Dena Loftin arrived this month as the NAACP’s new director of the Youth & College Division at a critical – even urgent – time when many young African-Americans are clamoring for ways to get involved in social justice movements to resist violence and oppression.

February 21, 2018

MSIs

Accused of Smearing Body Fluids on Roommate’s Stuff, Coed Seeks Probation

HARTFORD, Conn. — A White former Connecticut university student accused of smearing body fluids on her Black roommate’s belongings asked a judge Tuesday to allow her into a probation program that could erase criminal charges from her record. Brianna Brochu, 18, a former University of Hartford student from Harwinton, applied for accelerated rehabilitation during an […]

January 31, 2018

Students

Organizations Call for DeVos to Halt Student Loan Policy Changes

The regulatory changes being pursued by U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos in the student loan arena could “spell disaster for students of color who are too often exploited in consumer lending,” a group of 39 organizations said in a letter to DeVos.

September 19, 2017

MSIs

Interim NAACP President says Civil Rights Group Remains Relevant

Arguing that President Donald J. Trump has emboldened white supremacists to “walk in public without hoods,” Derrick Johnson — interim president of the NAACP — said the civil rights organization he leads is as relevant today as it was when it began to fight lynchings over a century ago.

August 29, 2017