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For Black Athletes, March Madness Has Much Higher Stakes
Of the 68 schools in March Madness, including Tennessee, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, more than 50 percent graduate less than half of their Black recruits
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Why Does White East Palestine, Ohio Get Apologies, But None for Black Cancer Alley?
Black communities smothered 24/7 by toxic industries keep getting strung along, with no apology in sight. This week is a perfect example.
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Democrats: Why in the Hell Are Black People Moving to Red States?
In a great reverse Black migration, the top four states for Black people are Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida
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Black College Students: An Endangered Species, Unless They Play Ball
The disparity of graduation rates for Black and white scholarship athletes will become more glaring if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action.
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NCAA Football Graduation Rate Still Troubling
In his Boston Globe column, Derrick Z. Jackson takes up the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s ban on postseason play for football teams with low graduation rates starting in 2012-2013. The good news that no teams would be disqualified is tempered by unchanged racial gaps, he writes. IT IS the academic version of pro football’s “two-minute…
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NCAA Graduation-Rate Rule and Racial Gap
In his Boston Globe column, Derrick Z. Jackson questions the value of a new recommendation from the NCAA Division I board of directors that could ban teams in about three years if they have less than a 50 percent graduation rate. He writes that the NCAA is already behind on a recommendation to ban teams…
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Legal Pioneer Chose Principle Over Prestige
In his Boston Globe column, Derrick Z. Jackson eulogizes Derrick Bell Jr., reflecting on how he used his position as a tenured professor at Harvard Law School to open the door wider for other African Americans. He died last week at 80. … “My challenge to the university,” he told me in 1988, “has always…
