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Student at Center of Howard University Financial Scandal Speaks Out Amid Campus Protests
As students at Howard University enter the second day of campuswide protests, the university’s board of trustees issued a statement moments before the immaculately dressed law student who has become a symbol of the administration’s mismanagement appeared with journalist Roland Martin and a very luxurious house plant to clear his name while everyone involved gulped…
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Rihanna’s ‘BBHMM’ Officially Becomes the Protest Song We Always Knew It Was
What do you do when your university’s financial aid office has been accused of finessing $1 million worth of aid money? You tap your inner Rihanna and let the school administration know that bitches those fools better. have. your. money. Which is actually what Howard University students did Thursday night, rallying at the school’s financial…
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Black Twitter Goes In on Howard University Student at Center of Financial Scandal
Shortly after a (now deleted) report leaked that officials at Howard University allegedly stole nearly $1 million from the university’s financial aid office, one former student-employee was dragged by Black Twitter into the spotlight and became the face of the controversy. According to NBC4 Washington, six employees were fired from Howard University last year after…
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Sex Offender Owns Up to Making Racist Death Threats Against Howard Students
Given what we know about John Edgar Rust, it’s fair to call him a racist. The 26-year-old convicted sex offender admitted in a Virginia court on Tuesday that he was responsible for threatening Howard University students online with violent, racist messages in 2015. The death threats, made on 4chan and Reddit, declared that “any niggers…
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Google Looks to Train More Black Engineers, but Will It Hire Them?
Google created Howard West last year as a three-month residency program for rising junior and senior computer science majors at Howard University. Students attended the program on Google’s Bay Area campus and were taught by senior Google engineers as well as Howard faculty. TechCrunc reports that after the success of the first program, the company…
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Watch: Black Colleges in the Age of Trump Chronicles Donald Trump’s Treatment of HBCUs
When Stanley Nelson agreed to discuss his new op-ed documentary on HBCUs’ strained relationship with the Trump administration, I struggled to find the terms to describe him. Simply calling Nelson a “filmmaker” seemed inadequate. Referring to him as the premier documentarian of the black experience seemed a little hyperbolic (not to mention that it contained…
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Howard University All Up and Through This Is Us Is the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
This second season of This Is Us has been interesting. For starters, it’s nowhere near as emotional as the first season was, for better and worse. Until last night’s episode, “Number Three,” I’d only shed tears maybe once. That ALL changed last night, though, buddy. See, after dedicating episodes to the backstory for Kevin and…
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Is Howard University Harboring a Sexual Predator on Campus?
Is prestigious HBCU Howard University harboring a sexual predator on its campus? New court documents show that a student says she was sexually assaulted by a serial offender who has been allowed to remain on the campus despite multiple reports filed against him. According to a BuzzFeed report, the woman—who is identified in court documents…
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Howard University: This Is Family
What can you say about Howard University that you cannot say about other HBCUs? There are the facts—facts that make the mecca historically unique. I mean, who else can say they have the same alma mater as Thurgood Marshall and Diddy? Only Howard alum can say that. Who else can say they attend a school…
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Why I Hate Howard University’s Homecoming Weekend With Every Fiber of My Being, Explained
Editor’s note: This was originally published to The Root on Oct. 1, 2015. I think so. No. I didn’t go to Howard and I don’t live in Washington, D.C., so I don’t have the Howard homecoming dates tattooed on my chest. Well, I do have multiple friends and followers on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. And…