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Homeland Security uses fake university to lure and entrap undocumented students
The Department of Homeland security utilized a fake university to lure in students who were overstaying their visa deadlines.
On being too queer and not queer enough: Finding space for my asexuality
I don’t know for sure if my family knows I’m not straight, and yet I suspect they somehow knew before I did. My family, who policed my lack of femininity growing up, and punished me for being a Tomboy. Who teased me for being a “Plain Jane.” Who asked for years when I was going […]
Why Black children must see themselves in the classroom.
by Liljuan Gonzalez I remember seeing a little Black girl being viciously yelled at to stop moving and to sit with her hands folded while her eyes followed the teacher. When she moved an inch, out of jitters or childish restlessness, her teacher responded with a death glare or a disparaging tone that blindly enforced […]
NABJ partners with Facebook to offer scholarship opportunities for Black student journalists
While mainstream news rooms do not comprehensively address the scope of today’s storytelling and storytellers, these publications remain important and owe readerships a duty of quality representation. The American Society of News Editors reported last fall that journalists of color composed about 17 percent of domestic news rooms. In online media, about one quarter of […]
The CHRONIC Case Of When The Hood Gets Overlooked
When I first heard the legendary Hip-Hop producer Dr. Dre was donating $35 million in a co-venture with his business partner Jimmy Iovine for a combined $70 million towards opening a college, the Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology, and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California, I was thoroughly […]
This HBCU is 90% white
You would think that most of a Historically Black Colleges and University’s (HBCUs) student population would mainly consist of African-American students. But there are some HBCUs where blacks make up just a small amount of the student body population. Bluefield State College is one of them.
White district sends black youth back to failing schools
Hundreds of mostly poor students of color will be sent back to their home districts next school year. The students used controversial Missouri law to transfer out of the failing schools, to enter better schools in predominately white neighborhoods.
Simmons College of Kentucky gains accreditation, becomes second HBCU in state
Simmons College has become accredited as the first private Historically Black Collegiate University, making it only the second HBCU in the state of Kentucky. Simmons joins Kentucky State University, a public institution.
The Best Man Holiday movie offers $1760 college scholarship
Many of us are excited about the upcoming sequel to the cult classic “The Best Man.” Not only can we look forward to seeing The Best Man Holiday this fall, but a select group of students will have the movie to thank for some scholarship money.
Black Males Are A Clear Minority At HBCUs, ‘Less Prepared’ For College
According to a recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Black males make up a clear minority on HBCU campuses, with Black women outnumbering them 3-2. And only 29 percent of those young men will graduate within six years? How can we better prepare young Black men for College?
For-Profit Schools See “Subprime-Opportunity”
For-Profit Schools See “Subprime-Opportunity” Julianne Hing, Colorlines, November 29, 2010 A new report out from the liberal education policy group EducationTrust says that the arc of the for-profit schools industry, and the disproportionate impact its had on the poor and people of color, mirrors another financial debacle that the country should be in no rush […]