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White Male Privilege a Problem? #MeToo, Say Women of Color
Women of Color Want Links Between Movements Smiley, Suspended by PBS, Announces New Projects Imprisoned Sexual Abuse Victims Have No Voice Bezos Gives $33 Million for ‘Dreamer’ Scholarships Press Played Role in Rape Case Oprah Publicized Daily News Owns Up to Late Columnist’s Smear Harvard Crimson Latinos on ‘Micro-Aggressions’ Short Takes People of color and…
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Harvard University Recognizes the Gullah Language in Its New Curriculum
Who remembers the 1990s PBS children’s show Gullah Gullah Island? For many of us, watching or hearing about the show was our first exposure to Gullah, the culture native to the Georgia and Carolina Sea Islands, which, because of their remote location, offered an unbroken chain to Africa and its cultures. And now Harvard University…
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Each Time I Watch This Video of 16-Year-Old Ayrton Little Learning He Was Accepted Into Harvard, a Ghost or Something Near Me Cuts an Onion
Earlier today, I came across a video on my Facebook feed of 16-year-old Ayrton Little learning that he was accepted into Harvard University. In the video, several of his classmates are in the room with him, and they all erupt with joy when he receives some sort of confirmation on the computer he’s browsing. The…
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Malia Obama Maligned and Defended for Being a Regular Person
The older daughter of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama is back in the news just for being a regular college student, doing the things that college students (or perhaps 19-year-olds in general) do: kissing, smoking and just pushing boundaries as they morph into adults. Too bad that because Malia Obama’s father…
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Justice Department Threatens to Sue Harvard Over Race-Based Admissions Practices
The Trump administration is squaring up for its first major legal challenge over affirmative action, as documents obtained by CNN indicate. The news network, which shared copies of the documents on its site, confirms that the Department of Justice is actively investigating Harvard’s use of race in its admissions decisions. The letters, which come from…
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Justice Department Probe of Harvard Admissions May Hit on Affirmative Action: Report
The Trump administration’s battle against affirmative action is under way. A new report from BuzzFeed News confirms that the Department of Justice is investigating Harvard University’s admissions practices. The investigation likely centers on allegations that Harvard’s use of affirmative action discriminates against students of Asian descent, according to the report. BuzzFeed reports that the confirmation…
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Black-ish Star Yara Shahidi Is Headed to Harvard
Yara Shahidi, one of the stars of Black-ish, has revealed that she will be repping Crimson: She announced on social media that she will be attending Harvard University in the fall of 2018. Shahidi, who plays Zoey on the show, posted a photo of herself rocking a crimson Harvard hoodie, captioned with a quote by…
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Students Get Harvard Admissions Offers Rescinded After Posting Offensive Memes on Facebook
Harvard University administrators were like, “You thought,” after they became aware of a secret Facebook group in which incoming freshmen posted offensive memes after they were accepted at the Ivy League school. At least 10 students are now on the hunt for a new college to attend this fall after they learned that not everything…
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Harvard Students Get Litty at 1st Black Graduation Ceremony
Black graduate students at Harvard University—from the schools of law, business, education and government, among others—held their inaugural “Black Commencement” ceremony this week, a ritual to mark the end of their sojourn as black students at one of the world’s most prestigious institutions. Harvard Magazine reports that the ceremony was organized this year “against a…
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Harvard Student Submits Rap Album as Senior Thesis
Obasi Shaw took his Harvard thesis to another level when he dropped the school’s first rap thesis album with Liminal Minds. The senior English major, who graduates this week, said it took a year to write the album, which draws inspiration from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and today’s current race issues. “Black people in America are…