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March 15, 2012
The diploma of the first African-American Harvard graduate has been discovered in an abandoned home on the South Side of…
March 14, 2012
OPINION - Derrick Bell and fellow law professors in the 70s and 80s understood that though blacks had technically gained…
October 7, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - A civil rights scholar who became the first tenured black professor at Harvard Law School has…
July 18, 2011
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - College teachers around the country are participating in a summer institute aimed at integrating more black…
June 1, 2011
VIDEO - Already a supermodel, actress and TV producer -- Tyra Banks has now added Harvard business student to her…
May 5, 2011
After weeks of debate, 15-year-old Saheela Ibraheem settled on attending Harvard after being accepted to 13 colleges -- including six…
April 28, 2011
Letterman dismisses the birther idiocy out of hand, but what bothers the host is Trump's questions about how Obama got…
April 27, 2011
OPINION - Demanding that the president produce his college transcript, like demanding that he show his birth certificate, is an…
April 25, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - "I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia…
April 21, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - Officer George Pierce, a veteran patrolman said he applied for open sergeant positions a number of times…
April 21, 2011
OPINION - The irony is that the multicultural inclusiveness that is desired by colleges and universities is the same thing…
April 13, 2011
The MP and former higher education minister David Lammy suggests that part of the reason Harvard does better on race…
February 25, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - The owners agreed to pay a $30,000 fine to settle allegations that it abruptly shut down an…
February 25, 2011
MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) - Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint are to receive Tufts' Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children's Media…
December 10, 2010
The centuries-old "one-drop rule" assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization…
September 14, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama will make that point Tuesday at a Philadelphia school when he delivers his second back-to-school pep…
August 3, 2010
African-Americans are four times as likely to have kidney disease as Caucasians, and a recent study from Harvard University may…