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Minorities Raid Retirement Savings to Survive Recession
While millions of people turned to their retirement accounts to make it through the Great Recession, a greater percentage of blacks and Hispanics did so, according to two recent studies from investment companies. Blacks were 55 percent more likely and Hispanics were about a third more likely to borrow money from their retirement accounts than [...]
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: [...]
Applying ‘Brown v. Board’ to Higher Education
On Thursday of this week, K-12 educators will commemorate the 58th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision recognizing that separate schools for black and white are inherently unequal. Even after de jure segregation was officially dismantled, K-12 educators acknowledged that de-facto racial, ethnic, and economic segregation of schools is harmful to [...]
