Study inside Michigan’s teacher preparation programs sheds light on some of the reasons for the scarcity of Black teachers in America
February 1 marked the 59th anniversary of the start of the Greensboro sit-ins, a protest started in 1960 by four college students against racial segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their actions quickly spurred a nationwide movement.
This campus building at Middle Tennessee State University is named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. These students are demanding that the name be changed. Can they make it happen?
Universities giant and small, public and private, bring African-American men to campus at grotesque levels to earn the school millions in football and basketball revenues. Stories about academic freedom and free speech have been appearing in newspapers more frequently over the last few weeks. And curiously enough political actors on and off campus who traditionally have been least likely to be concerned about these subjects are becoming its major advocates.
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