Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
More than two dozen college and university police departments across the state have hired officers who have faced multiple sustained complaints throughout their careers. The data raises concerns of transparency surrounding campus police forces.
The Department of African American Studies celebrated its renaming to Black Studies in a Friday symposium titled “Black to Front.” In April 2008, the department voted unanimously to change its name. According to the formal name change proposal, the new title aims to better reflect “the breadth of its scholarship and teaching” by expanding beyond.
The African American Studies department will officially change its name to the Black Studies department in the next few months pending final approval by Northwestern’s Board of Trustees, according to a Thursday news release. The department’s new title aims to better reflect “the breadth of its scholarship and teaching,” according to the formal name change.