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This year alone, 24 unarmed Black men have been shot and killed by the police, and college and university campuses aren’t any safer.

As journalists, the truth is the only currency that we have.-Don Kaplan Rolling Stone faced all the hot water after freelance writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely reported on…

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Prominent UVA news source, @cavalierdaily , publishes racist stories as April Fools jokes? #FailingToSeeTheComedy pic.twitter.com/pifzI1fXvN — UVA Nupes (@EtaSigmaNUPES) April 1, 2015 Jokes and pranks…

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What you see above is a map of Detroit. The small colorful dots represent people, plotted to show where they live and their race. Whites are…

The who’s who of Black entertainment, leadership, business, and education gathered Wednesday night for the Celebration Gala at The Plaza Hotel in New York to honor human rights icon Julian Bond. After 20 years of teaching courses on the Civil Rights Movement at the University of Virginia, Professor Bond, as many of us are accustomed […]

VIA:  NBLSA.Org Melinda Hightower is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and attended Cornell University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations in 2000. At Cornell, she was a Mening Family Cornell National Scholar and a member of the Cornell Debate Team. In 2000, she was selected to be member of […]