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Body Cam Footage Released Of Police Detaining Iowa Football Player
By now, stories of Pokemon Go players ending up in all kinds of awkward situations have surfaced, including strolls through mine fields and discovering dead bodies. But a University of Iowa football player recently found himself “”with four gun barrels staring me in the face,” according to his Facebook account of the experience. Body cam […]
Student activists follow Harvard’s lead with ‘I,Too Am Oxford’ and ‘I,Too Am Iowa’ campaigns
Last week, we wrote about the “I, Too Am Harvard” photo campaign meant to highlight the voices of black students on the college’s campus. It appears that the campaign has spread to other campuses, with activists attending the University of Iowa and Oxford created their own campaigns.
Christian OB-GYN Explains How Providing Abortions Is “Doing God’s Work”
Dr. Willie Parker has been a devout Christian for his entire life. He would even walk from door-to-door and spread the word when he was only a teenager growing up in the Deep South. He later became a doctor specializing in obstetrics after attending Berea College, Harvard and the University of Iowa. For the first half […]
How Trump’s anti-Black, anti-poor, and anti-LGBTQ administration affects marginalized people
President Donald Trump’s recent comments about who should not control the nation’s economy shine light on the ways that his biases against poor, Black, and LGBTQ people have become central to his administration.
Poll: Young adults divided on immigration, border control
By: Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Young Hispanics, Asian-Americans and African-Americans are much more likely to trust Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump to deal with immigrants living in the United States illegally. But young whites tend to trust Trump more on issues related to illegal immigration, including securing the border. Among young people […]
Medical school students hold ‘die-in’ to shed light on biases in health care
Medical students from more than 70 U.S. schools organized a die-in Wednesday in support of the nationwide protests condemning a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri. Participants say the same structural racial that is present in police brutality against blacks manifests itself in […]
Video: Out of 21 siblings, man becomes the first to graduate college
Paul Lamar Hunter knows what it’s like growing up with a house full. As the 19th of his mother’s 21 siblings, things didn’t come easy to him or his family. But despite the odds being stacked against him, he not only graduated from college, but has become a successful author. In his latest book, “No […]
Unarmed teen shot dead on ISU campus after police chase
A man called police to report a stolen vehicle, now he’s planning for a funeral. James Comstock called authorities after his 19-year-old son Tyler stole his vehicle to go purchase cigarettes. Ames County Police Officer Adam McPherson pursued Comstock, and during the chase Comstock rammed McPherson’s car.
Weekly News Round-Up: Sept 19- 25th, 2011
Sept 19- 25th University of Tennessee Martin’s First Black Student Remembers Challenges Staff Writer, The associated Press, 9/19/11 Berkeley, California Schools Number One In Black Student Success Staff Writer, News One, 9/20/11 Achievement gap progressively narrows Sara Toth, Baltimore Sun, 9/20/11 Retention of black students at K-State remains problem Cooper Mach, […]