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Koch Brothers donate $25 million to United Negro College Fund

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Negro College Fund announced a $25 million grant Friday from Koch Industries Inc. and the Charles Koch Foundation — a…

New NAACP leader: I’m Brown v. Board beneficiary

WASHINGTON (AP) — As a Head Start and Yale Law School graduate, Cornell William Brooks calls himself a direct beneficiary of Brown v. Board Education.…

NAACP selects Brooks as new president and CEO

WASHINGTON (AP) – The NAACP on Saturday announced that lawyer and activist Cornell William Brooks would become its new national president and CEO. The selection…

55 schools face US federal sex assault probe

  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty-five colleges and universities — big and small, public and private — are being investigated over their handling of sexual abuse…

Military suicide: Often young, White men with guns

The Pentagon released final data on military suicides during 2012, painting a general picture of those more likely to take their own lives: Young, White…

UNC reading specialist turned whistle-blower says she is resigning

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — The reading specialist who questioned the literacy level of athletes who were admitted to the University of North Carolina at…

Backers, opponents of Michigan affirmative action ban react to ruling

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court decision Tuesday upholding the state’s ban on racial preference in college admissions comes as the University of Michigan…

High Court Upholds Mich Affirmative Action Ban

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in college admissions despite one justice’s impassioned dissent…

Public smoke-out marks pot holiday in Colorado

DENVER (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers raised joints, pipes and vaporizer devices to the sky Sunday at a central Denver park in a…

Colleges seek to improve remedial programs

BALTIMORE (AP) — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels’ remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College. Only…

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