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Experts: Black studies programs facing campus challenges

DETROIT (AP) — Protests by University of Missouri Black students that forced the school’s administration to address racism and other problems mirror efforts decades ago…

Minneapolis protesters vow to stay outside police station

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ An encampment of protesters outside a Minneapolis police station vowed Saturday to maintain their vigil over the death of a Black man…

Census changes could make whites less than 50 percent sooner

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) _ The Census Bureau is considering changes to its race and ethnicity questions that would reclassify some minorities who were considered “White”…

Mizzou’s student president: School has racism, also unity

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) _ When Payton Head ran for student president at the University of Missouri _ a school now known for one student’s hunger…

Texas board may vote to let academics check school textbooks

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas education officials may vote this week to have outside experts check for factual errors in textbooks used in its public…

Tawanda Jones wages long fight for justice in Baltimore

BALTIMORE (AP) _ Every Wednesday for more than two years, Tawanda Jones has stood vigil _ in front of City Hall, outside the state’s attorney’s…

Georgia officials OK merger of historically Black Albany State University

ATLANTA (AP) — Faced with declining enrollment, Georgia officials are combining a historically Black state university with a two-year state college that also has a…

Ferguson protests influence actions at U. of Missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the Black culture center at the University of Missouri’s flagship campus in 2010 in a…

Pennsylvania Porn scandal: Top prosecutor keeps releasing raunchy emails

 HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Facing criminal charges, relieved of her law license and threatened with removal by the Legislature, Pennsylvania’s attorney general seems to have…

AP: Hundreds of officers lose licenses over sex misconduct

 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Flashing lights pierced the black of night, and the big white letters made clear it was the police. The woman pulled…

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