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The fate of scholarship money is up in the air in Ohio after seven state universities put race-conscious programs on hold. The post Are Race-Conscious Scholarships A Thing Of The Past? appeared first on NewsOne.
After going test optional, the Ivy League and MIT had more racial and economic diversity than ever before. The post Will Returning To Standardized Tests For Colleges Hinder Student Diversity? appeared first on NewsOne.
America is a melting pot. So why haven’t we embraced the people who’ve represented that even before this country’s beginning? The post History Of The Melungeons: The Forgotten Tribe Of Appalachia appeared first on NewsOne.
Study Finds No Increase In Stress Among High School Students Who Participated In Anti-Racism Program
Researchers conducted a study that found students are not negatively impacted by anti-racism programs in schools. The post Study Finds No Increase In Stress Among High School Students Who Participated In Anti-Racism Program appeared first on NewsOne.
Rapper and music producer Pharrell Williams is making a few college students happy. Williams announced he was paying off the student loan debt of five NAACP youth leaders a panel held by the organization on the Black student debt crisis. Wisdom Cole, the NAACP’s national director of youth and college, says the “powerful” gesture is […]
Following the renaming of its College Of Fine Arts center after late 'Black Panther' actor Chadwick Boseman, Howard University went further in honoring the school's late alumnus by establishing a multimillion-dollar scholarship in his name with help from streaming giant Netflix.
Entertainment mogul Nick Cannon surprised seven HBCU scholars by eliminating their student debt.
School Committee ‘Karen’ Is Humbled After Questioning Ivy League-Educated Black Mom’s Qualifications
A woman did her best Karen impression and was forced to apologize for questioning how an Ivy League-educated Black mother became a member of a school committee in suburban Boston and suggesting she was unqualified.
Beyoncé & Jay-Z Use Their New Tiffany & Co. Partnership To Create A $2 Million Scholarship For HBCUs
As an extension on their new "ABOUT LOVE" campaign in partnership with Tiffany & Co., Beyoncé and Jay-Z came together as always to present the Love Scholarship program in conjunction with their charities BeyGOOD and the Shawn Carter Foundation.
New York City's historic Medgar Evers College will be offering the first-ever cannabis minor degree program for a CUNY campus.
High School Suspends Its First Black Principal Over Critical Race Theory Complaints By White Parents
A Black principal was recently put on paid administrative leave after parents at his Texas high school complained that he was influencing critical race theory on students.
Many Southern students find themselves in an awkward situation following the revelation that Georgia has 45 public schools named after Confederate leaders, the most for any US. state.