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Young workers who are stuck in low-wage positions have taken a more active role in protests and advocacy initiatives to increase the living wage. In the past year, millennials have put increased pressure on low wage job providers to increase the minimum wage. 

The College of Charleston adopted a 2012 Diversity Strategic Plan, to address the school’s many “diversity challenges.” Now, the board has created a new challenge with the election of its new president. 

    Black students on the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana’s campus are the latest group of educated African Americans to fight for equality. “Being Black at Illinois” was created in response to several racially-charged incidents on campus. 

The following letter was written by Texas death row inmate Ray Jasper, who was sentenced to death at age 19 for the murder and robbery of recording studio owner David Alejandro. It originally was published on Gawker, and is addressed to Hamilton Nolan a member of the publication’s staff. Jasper describes the letter as one […]

Until recently, 22-year-old Naquasia LeGrand was sweeping floors, preparing food and serving customers as an employee for KFC for $7.25 an hour. That was just 15 months ago and before she was recruited by union organizers to join a campaign for higher pay. Now, the Brooklyn native has become one of the most visible faces […]

In November, some members of UCLA’s Law School started wearing T-shirts in support of UCLA law professor Richard Sander. Sander’s scholarship was described as racially divisive, and some argued that the shirts were insensitive to black students.  Now after the Team Sander t-shirt controversy, black students at UCLA Law School have organized an awareness campaign in […]

  George Zimmerman’s celebrity boxing match which was abruptly cancelled amid protests from thousands of citizens, is back on. But rapper DMX will not be joining the former neighborhood watchman in the ring. Filmon.com, an online streaming service, claims to have secured the rights to a Zimmerman fight after the original promoter, Damon Feldman pulled […]

Last semester, students at the University of Michigan garnered national attention on Twitter. By using the hashtag #BBUM, minority students were able to successfully conduct a dialogue about race relations on campus. Blacks don’t even make up five percent of the university’s enrollment, and described hostile and/or ignorant comments as everyday occurrences. The Twitter protest quickly spread […]

    Hide your kids, hide your wives, and hide your sanity! They’re coming. Did you honestly think that they wouldn’t? That they wouldn’t swarm into your neighborhoods, your homes, your towns and take over? It seems ending slavery and segregation wasn’t enough. It was only a matter of time before people of color found […]

In cities around the country Thursday, fast food workers will gather for another round of one-day strikes in hopes of gaining progress in the fight to raise minimum wage. If granted, workers in the industry would gain a 67 percent increase in pay. The average rate for fast food workers in the country is $9 […]

Indiana University has completed an investigation into a bulletin board that asked students and faculty members at the school, “Could Santa Claus be a black man?” Officials ordered the removal of the board, that also featured an image of a black Santa Claus after protests from some of the institution’s members.

Just when you think things couldn’t get any more disturbing, a conservative student group proves you wrong. The Young Conservatives of Texas at the University of Texas at Austin announced a new game: “Catch an Illegal Immigrant.”