A new study from Drexel University says that Black people are 2.8 and 1.7 times more likely to die during encounters with police than White people and Hispanics, respectively.
What may not have been a traditional graduation speech has now captured the heart and souls of many.
Yale University said it would continue to name a residential college after John C. Calhoun, a 19th century slavery defender. University officials decided, however, to stop addressing residential faculty as masters.
Harvard University's president acknowledges the school's complicity in slavery. She will unveil a plaque honoring four slaves who lived and worked on the campus.
A committee at Harvard recommended removing the law school's official shield over its link to slavery. This comes amid protests and heightened racial tension at Harvard and other universities regarding historic symbols of racism.
Harvard appoints first African-American faculty dean. This comes on the heels of a medical school student petition calling demanding diversity.
Haben Girma is our new hero. The 27-year-old lawyer is the first deaf-blind alumna of Harvard Law School.
WOBURN, Mass. — A former Harvard University student was sentenced Friday to three years in prison after pleading guilty in connection with the 2009 fatal shooting of a Cambridge man during a drug robbery inside a dormitory. By pleading guilty Friday, Brittany Smith, 24, admitted she hid the gun used in the shooting of Justin […]
WOBURN – Jabrai Copney was sentenced to life in prison for killing Justin Cosby. He was also found guilty of weapons possession. Copney posed as a Harvard student and befriended Cosby, who he later set up to be robbed for his marijuana at the Harvard dorm, Kirkland House, by Copney and his accomplices, Jason Aquino […]
WOBURN, MA – Chanequa N. Campbell, the Harvard student who was implicated in the 2009 murder of Justin Cosby on Harvard campus has testified against Jabrai Copney, the boyfriend of her friend, Brittany Smith, who is accused of killing Cosby in a drug deal gone bad, has admitted to selling cocaine and marijuana while at […]
