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Officials at Howard University are renaming their College of Fine Arts after Chadwick Boseman. The Black Panther star, who lost his battle with cancer last summer, studied directing at the historically Black college from 1997 to 2000 before finding fame as an actor. Announcing the news, Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick said Chadwick had backed plans to re-establish a Fine Arts faculty, having fought its absorption into the Arts & Sciences Department while a student. When Chadwick Boseman returned to campus in 2018 to serve as our commencement speaker, he called Howard a magical place, Frederick said in a press release. During his visit, I announced our plans to re-establish the College of Fine Arts and he was filled with ideas and plans to support the effort in a powerful way.
Tupac reference in class leads Tennessee university to apologize for racist acronym Mark Price, The Charlotte Observer
Feb. 5 An acronym scrawled on a whiteboard during an Africana studies class has University of Tennessee officials apologizing to both students and the community.
The U.T. College of Arts & Sciences in Knoxville apologized in a series of tweets Thursday, explaining a faculty member wrote a racially charged acronym during the class, while discussing the late rap artist Tupac Shakur.
Information on the incident is still being gathered, which may precipitate additional actions, officials said. College and department leadership is actively talking with our students and faculty member about an Africana Studies class in which the faculty member wrote a racially charged acronym on the whiteboard, the Arts & Sciences Department said in a tweet.