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by Indigo  During my first semester of law school, I struggled with acclamation into legal academia, but being at an institution invested in public interest lawyering, I shrugged it all of. Then, the racial tensions within my first-year cohort at my University exploded after several of my colleagues complaining to Academic Affairs about our only […]

By Gloria Oladipo My school, Cornell University, has tried very hard to help me forget that it once housed a plantation. My school, along with many other universities across the country, has continually tried to sanitize their campuses of overt references to American slavery while still allowing covert examples of anti-Blackness to flourish.

Garrett Robinson, a senior running back on the Brown University football team, recently helped to teach a training session for the incoming freshman members of the team. But this was no ordinary football training. It was a training about how not to replicate the aggression of football off the field, the likes of which have […]

By Gloria Oladipo All college students have experience being tired and stressed due to the variety of issues at schools. However, for Black students, feelings of weariness and mental exhaustion are exacerbated when anti-Black events occur on campus. Since enrolling at Cornell University last August, the following “racial incidents” have occurred: “Build a Wall” was […]

White nationalist duo Richard Spencer and Cameron Padgett are salty. They are salty America racially and ethnically diversifies at an irreversible rate, that everybody does not revere and sustain the creation of whiteness the way they do, and that global competition does not just reward white mediocrity. They are also salty that Ohio State University […]

College campuses across the nation are finally listening to the public. All it took was a violent rally in Charlottesville to show them the error of their ways. 

High school students and activists in Phoenix are fighting back against the presence of school resource officers (SROs). They argue that their presence doesn’t offer any kind of safety or improve education, but does strengthen the school-to-prison and school-to-deportation pipelines. The 15 students, all from the Phoenix Union High School District, launched a #CopsOuttaCampus hashtag […]

Two conservative, student-led organizations at the University of California – Berkeley have sued the school after it cancelled Ann Coulter’s speaking engagement. The Young America’s Foundation and Berkeley College Republicans allege that UC Berkeley cancelled the event because of Coulter’s reputation as a conservative, Trump-supporting media personality, according to The Daily Beast.

The journey to diversify the STEM industry has been long and hasn’t bore much fruit. Just a few weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg spoke to students at an HBCU about how the responsibility to do so falls solely on the industry’s leaders themselves. Google has stepped up with a major investment into the future of engineering […]

There’s a common belief that academia is absent of the same racism that can be found in the rest of the world. That comes with the assumption that education is the antithesis of ignorance. But that’s still yet to be proven as the number of hate crimes in the United States has spiked in recent […]

Reports from multiple sources claim that an active shooter has been found on Ohio State University’s Campus in Columbus, Ohio. 

Texas administrators have instructed faculty members to steer clear from teaching controversial course material for “safety concerns” due to a new law which allows people to carry concealed handguns on college campuses.