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Tag: U.S. Senate
African-American
Congress Passes Bill Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Congress has passed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth –June 19 every year – marks the true end of slavery in the U.S., June 19, 1865, when Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed freedom from slavery in Texas, nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday has been celebrated in 47 states […]
June 16, 2021
News Roundup
Two Former Indiana Politicians Hired as Distinguished Scholars at Indiana University
Former Indiana politicians Evan Bayh and Dan Coats — IU alumni and former U.S. Senators — will be hired at Indiana University, the school announced Wednesday, Indy Star reported. Bayh, a Democrat, will join the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs as executive at large. Coats, a Republican, will join the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies as […]
June 10, 2021
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Georgia’s Runoff Election Captures National Attention
Like much of the nation, Julian Alexander Arriola-Hemmings has spent the past few months closely monitoring the two U.S. Senate races in Georgia.
January 5, 2021
African-American
UNCF Celebrates as FUTURE Act Awaits Trump’s Signature
The latest version of the FUTURE Act, a bipartisan compromise on funding for minority serving institutions, now awaits the signature of President Trump, having been passed by the House and Senate yesterday, hours after a United Negro College Fund press conference touted the bill’s merits.
December 10, 2019
HBCUs
Senators Send Letter in Support of the FUTURE Act
A group of 38 senators sent a letter to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calling on them to pass the FUTURE Act. The FUTURE Act would renew $255 million in mandatory federal funding for minority serving institutions, including historically Black colleges and universities, for two years. The bipartisan legislation […]
November 5, 2019
HBCUs
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Addresses HBCU Leaders About Expired Funding
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos sent a letter to leaders of historically Black colleges and universities, reassuring them that recently expired federal funds for minority serving institutions “will have no bearing” on funds already awarded for 2020. “This administration is committed to each and every HBCU and other minority-serving institutions and the important work […]
October 10, 2019
African-American
FUTURE Act Halted in Senate, Higher Education Organizations and Leaders Dismayed
U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander is standing in the way of the passage of Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education (FUTURE) Act. Alexander’s decision to stall the legislation means that $255 million of funding for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) and other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) will expire Sep. […]
September 26, 2019
Opinion
Diversity at Stake in Kavanaugh Hearings
Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is about institutionalizing the trend at the highest court to reverse everything that makes American society coincide with a sense of racial diversity and fairness.
September 5, 2018
MSIs
Students Could Save Thousands Under New Senate Bill
More than a dozen co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate have reintroduced legislation that would make the cost of community and technical colleges more affordable to students. More than a dozen co-sponsors in the U.S. Senate have reintroduced legislation that would make the cost of community and technical colleges more affordable to students.
March 8, 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
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Senators Push for Confidential Advisers to Campus Assault Survivors
A Senate committee discussed possible responses to campus sexual assault at a hearing Wednesday.
July 29, 2015
African-American
Rights Leaders Call for Vote on Lynch
A coalition of civil rights leaders are calling on the leadership of the U.S. Senate to immediately call for a vote to confirm Loretta Lynch as the nation’s next U.S. attorney general.
April 12, 2015
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