The Michigan Wolverines held their annual College Practice Camp on Saturday afternoon at the Crisler Center and as excepted, they drew an impressive group of talent…
A group of Black law students at Washington and Lee University are demanding that the school’s administration publicly denounce its Confederate past and distance the school from Robert E. Lee, one of the institution’s founders. Calling themselves “The Committee,” several members told NewsOne that they and other Black law students were tricked by representatives of […]
Kwasi Enin, a senior at William Floyd High School in Shirley, New York, applied to all eight Ivy League Universities—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Cornell—and was accepted to all of them. “My heart skipped a beat when he told me he was applying to all eight,” says Nancy Winkler, a […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Ruth J. Simmons, the first African-American to lead an Ivy League university, is stepping down as president of Brown University. Also read: Study Shows White Students Are More Likely To Get Scholarships RELATED: Study Shows White Students Are More Likely To Get Scholarships RELATED: Race To Save Troy! FBI, Sharpton Protest Controversial Execution Simmons […]
NEW YORK — Michele Moody-Adams, the first woman and first African-American dean of Columbia College — Columbia University’s undergraduate division — has resigned, only two weeks before the new semester begins. Moody-Adams’ departure is the second by a prominent African-American administrator at the university this summer. In June, Claude M. Steele, who served as the […]
Cornell University Student, Keri Blakinger was caught with $150,000 worth of heroin in a tupperware jar in Ithaca, New York. Gawker reports: Police arrested Cornell senior Keri Blakinger while she was holding $150,000 worth of heroin, which she confessed was hers. A Cornell Daily Sun staffer, Keri posed in bikinis on Facebook—and lived in a […]
