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New Approach for Affirmative Action

January 23, 2015

January 23, 2015     Continued from last week…   In Cashin’s article on affirmative action published in the PRRAC journal, she concedes that, “Fewer African Americans may enter elite institutions under an affirmative action system based on structural disadvantage rather than under race-based affirmative action.” However, she argued that the social costs of racial-conscious […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Affirmative Action, Economic Policy Institute EPI, JANUARY 23 2015, Lia Epperson, NAACP, Richard Rothstein, VOL. 25 NO. 3, Washington College of Law

Larry Wilmore Takes Over Stephen Colbert, Becomes Only Black Anchor At Late Night

January 23, 2015

January 23, 2015   In this Monday, June 10, 2013, photo, Larry Wilmore accepts the best talk show award for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards in the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/ Invision/AP)     (YIBADA) — Larry Wilmore is all set […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Critics Choice Television Awards, JANUARY 23 2015, Larry Wilmore, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Minority Report, The Nightly Show, VOL. 25 NO. 3

HBCUs Divided Over Free Community College Plan

January 23, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent January 23, 2015   Howard University Campus     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — Black college educators and supporters are sharply split over whether President Obama’s proposal to offer a free two-year community college education to students making progress toward earning an associate or bachelor’s degree would hurt are harm […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Americas College Promise ACP, Free Community College Plan FCCP, Howard University, JANUARY 23 2015, Jarvis Christian College, Lester C. Newman, Lezli Baskerville, Tuskegee Airmen, VOL. 25 NO. 2, VOL. 25 NO. 3

Scholar Says Race-Neutral Approach Needed for Affirmative Action

January 16, 2015

By Freddie Allen, NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent January 16, 2015   Sheryll Cashin, a professor of law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. advocates for “place-based” affirmative action policies in education. (Freddie Allen/NNPA)     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — In the wake of unrelenting law suits seeking to abolish affirmative action coupled with nearly half […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Affirmative Action, Economic Policy Institute EPI, JANUARY 16 2015, Race-Neutral, Sheryll Cashin, VOL. 25 NO. 2

Judge Could Rule in Dispute Over MLK Bible & Nobel Medal

January 16, 2015

By Kate Brumback, Associated Press January 16, 2015   In this Feb. 6, 2006 file photo, the children of Martin Luther King Jr., and Coretta Scott King, left to right, Dexter Scott King, Rev. Bernice King, Martin Luther King III and Yolanda King participate in a musical tribute to their mother at the new Ebenezer […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Bernice King, Coretta Scott King, Dexter Scott King, JANUARY 16 2015, Martin Luther King III, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK Bible, MLK Nobel Medal, VOL. 25 NO. 2, Yolanda King

Black Lives Still Matter to Grassroots & Black Media

January 16, 2015

By Jazelle Hunt, NNPA Washington Correspondent January 16, 2015     WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) — The last several months have seen an outpouring of activism, with slogans coming in waves: “Justice for Mike Brown,” “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” and “I Can’t Breathe.” But the phrase “Black Lives Matter” has emerged to bind each flashpoint into […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Black Lives Matter, Black Media, Ferguson MO, George Zimmerman, JANUARY 16 2015, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, VOL. 25 NO. 2

2 Tuskegee Airmen, Both 91, Die on Same Day in Los Angeles

January 16, 2015

By John Rogers, Associated Press January 16, 2015   This April 7, 2011 photo by Bruce Talamon shows Clarence E. “Buddy” Huntley Jr., a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed all-black squadron that flew in World War II, posing with a P-51C Mustang fighter plane similar to the one that he was a crew […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Clarence E. Buddy Huntley Jr., Distinguished Flying Cross, JANUARY 16 2015, Joseph Shambrey, Passing, Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Experiment, VOL. 25 NO. 2, World War II

Minority Report: What Will Walker Do for Diverse Wisconsinites?

January 9, 2015

By Ariele Vaccaro January 9, 2015   Scott Walker     For the second time, Scott Walker held up his right hand, pledged to perform his duty as governor, and stepped into another four-year term as Wisconsin’s political leader. At his inauguration on Tuesday, the governor made a lot of promises to Wisconsinites. If those […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Diversity, JANUARY 9 2015, Minority Report, Scott Walker, State Budget, VOL. 25 NO. 1

Cornell William Brooks, NAACP CEO, Confronts Police Brutality

January 9, 2015

By Tiffany Crouse January 9, 2015   Cornell William Brooks     NAACP President and CEO, Cornell William Brooks, is described as “a pioneering lawyer and a civil rights activist” by his peers at the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He is the 18th president and was appointed in May […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Cornell William Brooks, Eric Garner, Ferguson MO, JANUARY 9 2015, Jay Nixon, Michael Brown, NAACP, Police Brutality, VOL. 25 NO. 1

Jesse Jackson Joins Hamilton Family in Fight for Justice

January 9, 2015

By Karen Stokes January 9, 2015       Hundreds of Milwaukee area residents and protesters gathered on a cold, wintry, Friday afternoon in downtown Milwaukee to rally in support of a fight for justice lead by the family of Dontre Hamilton, and to hear inspiring words from the family and civil rights leader, Reverend […]

Popular Interests In This Article: Civil Rights, Dontre Hamilton, James Groppi, JANUARY 9 2015, Jesse L. Jackson Sr., John Chisholm, Milwaukee, VOL. 25 NO. 1, WNOV

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