Education
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ACLU Files Discrimination Complaint on Behalf of Black Students in Central California
In response to claims of sustained racial abuse against the two percent of black students who attend the Visalia Unified School District, the ACLU of Northern California has filed a discrimination complaint against the district in court. The complaint, filed with the Department of Education, charges the district with violating Title VI of the Civil…
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Gov. of Mississippi Has the Nerve to Talk About Being ‘Civilized’ After Black Teens Stage Controversial Halftime Show
Gov. Phil Bryant, head of the state which ranks second to last in education in all 50 of these United States; a man who runs the government of a place with an actual Confederate flag in its state flag and where the poverty rate stands at an abysmal 20 percent, has the nerve, the unmitigated…
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Funding Is Top Issue for Trump’s Newly Appointed Board of Advisors on HBCUs
President Donald Trump recently announced 13 new appointees to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Bennett College President Phyllis Dawkins is among them. Dawkins, at the helm of a school established to educate freedmen and train teachers in Greensboro, N.C., in 1873, has strong views on what such institutions and…
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White College Admissions Counselors Don't Want 'Woke' Black Students: Study
A new study reveals that black high school students who are actively fighting racism might have a harder time getting into colleges with white admissions counselors because … Wait? Did you even read the first part of that sentence? Ted Thornhill is a sociology professor at Florida Gulf Coast University whose research “examines color-blind ideology…