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Misrach Ewunetie
December 29, 2022
Misrach Ewunetie, a junior pursuing a sociology degree, was last seen entering her dorm room at Princeton on Oct. 14.
Cornel West thegrio.com
July 13, 2021
Cornel West has resigned from his position at Harvard University, penning an open letter months after being denied tenure at…
October 10, 2020
A campus building is being rebuilt and named after Mellody Hobson, a Black businesswoman who is an alumna of and…
Princeton University Orders 100 Students To Self-Isolate After Traveling To China On Coronavirus Fears
September 18, 2020
After acknowledging the racism in its history, Princeton University is now the target of an investigation of its use of…
Harvard v Yale theGrio.com
July 9, 2020
The Ivy League Council of Presidents said that all fall sports would not be resuming in the upcoming semester because…
Robertson Hall, home to Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs theGrio.com
June 27, 2020
Princeton University will remove the name of its racist former president that once blocked Black students from enrollment.
Nicholas Johnson theGrio.com
May 11, 2020
Nicholas Johnson has made history at the prestigious Princeton University becoming the university's first Black valedictorian.
Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber theGrio.com
February 14, 2018
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Princeton University professor canceled a course he teaches on cultural freedoms and hate speech after
Lawrence Rosen Princeton theGrio.com
February 12, 2018
The fate of a white professor at Princeton, who repeatedly used the N-word during class, could be determined in a…
Princeton University theGrio.com
February 8, 2018
On Tuesday, several Princeton students walked out of an anthropology lesson when their white professor repeatedly used a racial slur.
June 1, 2017
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had to cancel her speech after Fox News aired a news segment about her commencement address about President…
April 4, 2016
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Woodrow Wilson’s name will remain on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it
April 4, 2016
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Woodrow Wilson’s name will remain on Princeton University’s public policy school, despite calls to remove it
April 8, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Nik Bostrom has an awesome decision ahead of him. He has to decide which of seven Ivy…
December 11, 2012
PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday found himself defending his legal writings that some…
November 17, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Ivy League activist Cornel West is returning to the Union Theological Seminary in New York City...
June 1, 2011
PRINCETON, New Jersey (AP) -The former home run record-holder was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities for making America a…
February 24, 2010
Van Jones has been appointed distinguished visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton…
December 1, 2009
Cornel West calls his new memoir, "Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud," his "most unique work yet."