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It’s just human nature that extreme measures have to be taken just to make people in power do the right thing. We’ve seen it with…

Tom Joyner

There are many reasons why Black students consider attending a historically Black college or university. Not only do HBCU’s provide an education, they offer Black…

Tom Joyner

For many years, the distinction of being Yale University’s first Black student went to Edward Bouchet, an 1874 graduate. His portrait hung in the Yale…

Tom Joyner

On July 26, 2012, President Obama launched his official White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African-Americans. The program is designed to help children of…

Black students at the University of Michigan are describing their college experience at the prestigious Ann Arbor institution with one provocative word: Racism. “Our list…

National

Spike Lee’s classic Black college film School Daze turned 25 in 2013. Given that anniversary, many fans wonder if there’s a chance Lee might release…

National

One of the students allegedly asked professor Shannon Gibney, “Why do we have to talk about this?” SOURCE A black female professor at Minneapolis Community and Technical College was formally reprimanded by school officials after three of her white male students were upset by a lesson she taught on structural racism. Shannon Gibney says that […]