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Obama raises $44M for campaign, Dems in April
President Barack Obama raised a combined $43.6 million in April for his campaign and the Democratic Party as he faces a unifying Republican effort around Mitt Romney for the White House. Obama’s April fundraising haul fell short of the $53 million he raised in March. That’s as his campaign said more than 400,000 people contributed [...]
The trouble with black studies
Last week, The Chronicle of Higher Education fired a blogger named Naomi Schaefer Riley. Her offense: a blog post in which she criticized black studies — an academic discipline pursued by thousands of undergraduates, graduate students and professors — as overly focused on policing racism. Specifically, she mocked a handful of dissertations highlighted in an [...]
Black Studies – The Never-Ending (Beautiful) Struggle
Much has been written about a former (recently fired) Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) blogger’s racist, dismissive, and uninformed rant against the discipline of Black Studies—particularly a group of Northwestern University graduate students—but very little scrutiny has been afforded the article that inspired the toxic torrent in the first place. That would be “Black Studies: [...]
More African-Americans leaving religious faiths
African-Americans are significantly more religious compared to the rest of the U.S. population, but a growing community of black atheists, like the Black Skeptics of Los Angeles, are steadily increasing each year. The American Religious Identification Survey of 2008 found that from 1990 to 2008 the number of blacks without any religious affiliation nearly doubled [...]
Famed FAMU marching band suspended another year
Florida A&M University’s famed marching band is being suspended until 2013. FAMU President James Ammons told the school’s board of trustees on Monday that he will keep The Marching 100 off the field for the upcoming school year. Eleven FAMU band members face felony hazing charges stemming from Robert Champion’s death in November. Two others [...]
