By The Admin on January 31, 2011
The Board of Regents will hold a special meeting Feb. 8 to discuss a controversial proposal to merge the University of New Orleans campus with the historically black Southern University at New Orleans campus.
Regents Chairman Robert Levy announced the meeting Thursday.
A Colorado consultant is studying the potential merger and the movement of a merged campus [...]
Posted in Education, Louisiana
By The Admin on January 31, 2011
Black Voice News
- The nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have served this country since 1837.
They educated freed slaves, offering educational opportunities not afforded to Blacks at White institutions during the days of legally mandated segregation.
Many highly successful CEOs, doctors, entertainers, educators, lawyers, engineers, and politicians graduated from these institutions.
Today, Black students have many [...]
Posted in Education
By The Admin on January 31, 2011
Cleveland Plain Dealer
- A group of Statehouse Democrats — black, white, Indian-American and Hispanic — accused Gov. John Kasich Thursday of racial discrimination and demanded that he name minorities to his cabinet.
Kasich’s early record of hiring only white people for his cabinet — and his defiant defense of it, likening diversity to quotas — has [...]
Posted in Ohio
By The Admin on January 31, 2011
Scripps News
- The recent shooting deaths of police officers and the black men they confronted in Tampa, Miami and St. Petersburg are tragedies that should remind us of the divide between law enforcement and black communities nationwide.
Journalists covering these incidents heard black people cursing and threatening the police, even those officers who were there to [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues, Race
By The Admin on January 31, 2011
Despite facing a greater risk of stroke, African Americans may have better survival rates than whites in the first year after the event, a study published Monday suggests.
The findings are surprising, researchers say, because black stroke patients are generally thought to have worse outcomes.
“Based on mortality rates, we found the exact opposite,” said Dr. Robert [...]
Posted in Health
