NewsOne Featured Video NBA star Kyrie Irving is paying it forward by investing in the futures of HBCU students. According to Forbes, the Brooklyn Nets point guard recently covered tuition costs for students at Lincoln University. Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving paid the tuition of nine students at Lincoln University, an HBCU in Chester Countyhttps://t.co/3KI9UyThhb […]
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The college fall semester has been a chaotic mess. It started out that way in August, with some schools making extremely last-minute decisions about whether or not students would be required to be on campus, and pleading with returning students to please avoid parties at all costs. It continued to be just as messy, as […]
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Black youth are making historic moves in the realm of academia. According to HBCU Buzz, 16-year-old Emory Pruitt recently began her college journey at Clark Atlanta University, making her the youngest student in the HBCU’s 155-year history to attend the school. A #feelgood story: At Age 15, Emory Pruitt, Becomes Clark Atlanta University’s Youngest Student […]
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NBA player Robert Covington is on a mission to empower student-athletes at his alma mater. According to The Tennessean, the Houston Rockets forward recently donated $1 million to Tennessee State University. Covington’s generous donation will go towards the creation of a new practice facility for the HBCU’s women’s and men’s basketball programs. The new building—which […]
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Photo: David Goldman (AP) I’m an Atlanta-area resident who remembers how huge and devastating the 2002 demise of Morris Brown College’s accreditation was in the city and especially around the Atlanta University Center (AUC), so it warms my heart to report that the historically Black college is one step closer to winning back its accreditation […]
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While coming of age in Harlem, New York during the 80s-era Kevin Richardson—a member of the Exonerated Five—often envisioned a future that spanned far beyond his circumstances. Outside the window of his family’s Schomburg Plaza apartment nestled in the heart of the neighborhood was a community grappling with poverty, crime and violence; inside of Richardson’s […]
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Scientist and physician William Augustus Hinton’s contributions will forever be embedded in the evolution of the STEM industry. Hinton, who made history at Harvard Medical School by becoming its first Black tenured professor nearly a century ago, will be posthumously honored by the Ivy League institution. According to The Harvard Crimson, the Harvard Medical School’s […]
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As a majority of colleges opened their campuses this semester for some level of in-person instruction, they tweaked their academic calendars, streamlining the schedule to limit how often students travel to and from school. The resulting plan for almost every school in the country is a semester that either ends or goes remote after Thanksgiving, […]
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Photo: EQRoy (Shutterstock) After Princeton University released a statement earlier this month acknowledging systemic racism is a problem on its campus, the Department of Education decided to launch an investigation into the school. Don’t worry though, this is totally not a way to punish a school for committing to be less racist. Advertisement According to […]
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Last week, a white professor at George Washington University outed herself in a years-long charade in which she told people she was Black and built an academic career around this lie. Jessica Krug, who is from a white Jewish family in the Kansas City suburbs, affected an accent and an evolving set of backstories, eventually […]
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Since coming down south to be closer to family, I’ve taken many walks around the University of North Carolina’s Greensboro campus, where my father works as a professor of chemistry. I arrived not long before spring classes were moved online and the vast majority of students decamped for home. The spacious campus turned desolate, bicycles […]
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Colleges choosing to reopen for in-person classes this fall must know by now that they are absolutely out of their depths when it comes to preventing an outbreak on a campus of thousands. As The Atlantic previously reported, campus outbreak control would require testing all students and faculty every two to three days, something that’s […]
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Photo: EQRoy (Shutterstock) A residence hall director at Iowa State University made an uncomfortable discovery when he found racial slurs spray painted throughout his residential storage room. Advertisement WHO13 reports that Neo Thurston Jr., a 29-year-old Black man, entered the room and found that various forms of hate speech, including the N-word, were spray-painted on […]
Read MoreHow we’re adjusting our routines, habits, and mindsets for a new normal. With more and more universities making the (probably wise) decision to go fully remote this semester because of the COVID-19 pandemic, students across the country are strapping in to spend more time than ever at their at-home desks, transforming them from places to […]
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Cognitive dissonance is an important signal. It signifies to us that something is amiss. Whether we are required to change our beliefs or our behavior in order to restore harmony is an evaluative process we must work through. Reconciling internal dissonance is a great skill to teach children early on, as they will face a […]
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Photo: Gorodenkoff (Shutterstock) Despite Anime Avatar Twitter’s claims to the contrary, gaming has one of the most diverse fanbases of any medium. A study by Pew research found that Black teens play more video games than their white peers, at 83 percent and 71 percent respectively. Despite making up a large portion of the player […]
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Last week, concluding a two-year investigation into the university’s admissions process, the Justice Department accused Yale of discriminating against white and Asian American applicants in order to manipulate the demographics of its student body. “There is no such thing as a nice form of race discrimination,” Eric Dreiband, assistant attorney general for the civil rights […]
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Photo by FatCamera via Getty Images A series in which people across the U.S. offer firsthand perspectives about how social issues impact their real lives. The U.S. is bracing for a resurgence of COVID-19, even as the virus still rages throughout the country. As people continue to die and fast, accessible testing lags, colleges and […]
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From her writing credits for some of the most definitive songs to her endeavors in the hospitality industry and everything in between, Kandi Burruss is known for making boss moves across different spaces. Her entrepreneurial journey will be the focus of a new course at Georgia State University, the institution reported. The course—which will be […]
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From Reasonable Doubt to 4:44 mogul and rapper Jay-Z has always used music as a vessel to drop lessons and the Brooklyn native will continue to do that through his Roc Nation imprint. According to Billboard, his entertainment agency has joined forces with Long Island University Brooklyn for the creation of a school. The school—dubbed […]
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Photo: Erik Voake (Getty Images) Prospective students at Brooklyn’s Long Island University (LIU) will have the chance to learn from some of the best in business, music, sports and more, thanks to the college’s new partnership with Roc Nation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Jay-Z-owned entertainment company is working with LIU for a new […]
Read MoreIgor Alecsander via Getty On Wednesday morning, the New York Times published the results of a survey sent to nearly 1,000 colleges and universities around the country, asking about coronavirus case numbers associated with their campuses. At least 6,600 cases are tied to the around 270 schools that replied to the survey, or for which […]
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Iowa Head Coach Kirk FerentzPhoto: Steven Branscombe (Getty Images) After multiple former players spoke out last month about instances of racism and bullying, an inquiry found that a culture of racial bias and bullying has persisted within the Iowa football program. Advertisement ABC News reports that the University of Iowa hired Husch Blackwell law firm […]
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Photo: Ken Wolter (Shutterstock) Marking the first major change to its curriculum in over four decades, California State University will now require students to take classes on ethnic studies or social justice in order to graduate. Advertisement ABC News reports, the school’s Board of Trustees approved the measure on Wednesday. With 23 campuses, Cal State […]
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Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Inexplicably, there’s an ongoing argument happening across the country about sending kids back to school even as COVID-19 cases continue to spike in several states. Apparently, the illusion of normality is far more important than the actual safety of the nation’s youth. Thankfully, a few schools are actually displaying some common sense. […]
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Even as the United States continues to break its own single-day coronavirus records, with more than 75,600 new cases confirmed on Thursday, plenty of colleges still plan on bringing students back to campus for the fall semester. One such school is the University of Texas at Austin, the seventh largest university in the country, with […]
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Native American mascots are fairly commonplace throughout the country, especially at the middle and high school level. Colleges have them, too. Even some professional sports teams — the Washington Redskins, the Atlanta Braves, and the Cleveland Indians — embrace Native American team mascots. First, let’s be clear what a mascot is. Merriam-Webster defines a mascot […]
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Black educators are breaking racial barriers in academic leadership. According to People, Dr. Michael Drake has been appointed as the president of the University of California System, making him the first Black person to serve at the helm in its 150-year history. The University of California system has named Dr. Michael Drake to replace Janet […]
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The move—announced with no forewarning and reversing a prior decision that schools had already come to rely on as ICE’s standard approach while the pandemic continues—seemed designed to throw a wrench into students’ and schools’ planning for next semester in a way that will force them to adhere to the administration’s broader reopening agenda. Several […]
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