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New Report Says White Supremacist Propaganda Spiked on College Campuses Last Year
White supremacist propaganda on college and university campuses increased more than 258 percent in 2017 compared with 2016, according to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League. As the Chronicle of Higher Education reports, the ADL tracked 147 incidents of white supremacist propaganda on campuses during the fall 2017 semester alone. This includes flyers,…
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FEMA Now Says It Won’t Cut Off Food and Water Aid to Puerto Rico
Updated Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018, at 4:15 p.m. EST: In a reversal that should tell you everything you need to know about the way the federal government has responded to the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico, FEMA now says that it won’t cut off food and water funding to the island, which is still suffering…
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The Man Who ‘Integrated an Industry’*
Those Who Followed Honor Jet’s Simeon Booker Columbia J-School Establishes Civil Rights Center Plain Dealer: Wahoo Should Have Been Long Gone Lemon Asks What Trump Is Trying to Hide Melvin Makes Spicer Watch Embarrassing Moments N.J. Investigation Tallies the Cost of Bad Cops Bystanders Bombard Texas Reporter With ‘N-Word’ A New Approach to Prepare Journalists…
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California Sex Offender Arrested, Accused of Posing as Private Basketball Coach
There was something about Melvin Flemings that seemed off. The 28-year-old California man had approached a high school teen, saying that he was a basketball coach, and offered the young man basketball lessons at a private training center, Evolution Basketball. But Flemings seemed suspicious to the parent of the Mount Eden High School teen. According…
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Congresswoman Convicted of Scamming Low-Income Students Pulled Up to Prison in a Limo Bus
You might think a politician who’s been indicted on federal corruption charges and convicted of fraud would want to keep a low profile, but you would not be thinking like former Rep. Corrine Brown. Brown, who used to represent Florida’s 5th Congressional District, was sentenced last month to five years in federal prison after being…
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Report Finds Some HBCUs Graduating Less Than 1 Out of 5 Freshmen Within 6 Years
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, after analyzing federal data tracking graduation and retention rates for HBCUs, came across an alarming finding. At 20 HBCUs, six-year graduation rates were at 20 percent or lower in 2015. To frame it another way, only 1 in 5 enrolled freshmen ended up graduating within six years. For perspective, the 2015 national…
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Black Student Enrollment Lagging in Many of the South’s Premier College Campuses: Report
A new report reveals major disparities between the rate of black high school graduates and the rate of black students enrolled at flagship state institutions. Among the findings: Nine of the 10 states with the biggest gaps were found in the South. The Hechinger Report released an interactive look Monday at how many black and…
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Survey Finds Men of Color Are More Likely to Say Sexual Assault Is a ‘Serious Problem’ Than White Women … for Real
A new Washington Post-ABC poll surveying Americans’ attitudes toward sexual harassment found that women of color were more likely than other groups to say that sexual harassment in the workplace was a “serious problem.” Among those surveyed, 86 percent of nonwhite women said that workplace sexual harassment was a serious problem. That was considerably more…
