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(10/06/23 7:54am)
I like to think I got very lucky with the town I grew up in. Sure, I experienced my fair share of microaggressions. But, because my high school had 68 percent minority enrollment, I never necessarily felt alone, as I was constantly surrounded by people that looked like me.
(03/08/23 2:10pm)
Members of Orange County Schools provided the Board of Education with updates on their partnership with Equal Opportunity Schools in a meeting Monday. EOS is an organization that provides school districts with data and support to diversify enrollment in advanced courses and close the opportunity gap.
(04/27/22 10:43pm)
Content warning: This article contains mentions of suicide.
(06/05/20 4:49am)
If you've marched in a demonstration, signed petitions, donated to bail funds and started to self-educate, there's still at least one other way you can offer your support to the Black community now and in the future.
(08/23/19 3:33am)
Long before Silent Sam was built, the land it stood on was home to the Native American tribes that inhabited North Carolina.
(07/08/19 11:15pm)
For years, universities across the nation have workshopped ideas for improving graduation rates among minority students. UNC programs are developing methods to uplift Black male graduation rates in particular, and are seeing results.
(04/02/18 2:33am)
To enhance its curriculum, Shaw University, one of the oldest historically Black universities in the Southern U.S., decided to sell its radio station, WSHA.
(02/23/18 4:34am)
A group of students at the University of North Texas are backing a petition that aims to name a new residence hall after a woman or person of color.
(02/23/18 5:37am)
Correction: A previous version of the article changed the identification of Sam Fulwood from a columnist for the American Center for Progress Action to a senior fellow for the Center for American Progress Action Fund and a columnist for ThinkProgress. We have since learned that the correction was innacurate and have reverted the article to its first-published draft. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for this error.
(02/22/18 1:16am)
Elizabeth City State University announced this week it will convert one of its historical buildings into an African-American Heritage Center.
(01/24/18 2:17am)
Duke University’s new program aims to bring more underrepresented minorities into the school’s graduate-level STEM field programs.
(01/22/18 3:44am)
Ice still covered the grounds of Halifax Mall, but thousands of women and allies braved the cold to stoke the fires of resistance Saturday morning at the Women’s Rally on Raleigh.
(01/16/18 12:50am)
A new UNC study may help debunk the traditional rags to riches narrative surrounding upward mobility and its relationship to higher education.
(12/06/17 12:11am)
The transgender community experienced the highest level of fatal violence this year than ever recorded in the United States, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
(11/29/17 12:09am)
Shaw University professor Lloyd Williams is trying to bring diversity into computer science — an industry thought to be disproportionately dominated by white or Asian-American men. He’s doing so by bringing innovation to the classroom at Shaw University, a historically black college in Raleigh. Staff writer Ryan Smoot asked Williams about how he is trying to change perceptions of programming.
(11/28/17 1:46am)
American Historically Black Colleges and Universities contribute $14.8 billion to the U.S. economy, according to a new study.
(11/21/17 2:24am)
Despite research showing increased diversity of work teams yields better performance in the technology sector, the industry is still plagued by a lack of female presence.
(11/16/17 12:46am)
Clarification: The defaced car mentioned in the article was the result of a "Halloween prank that got out of hand," according to Riley County Police Department. The full story has been linked to provide more context for the incident. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the mistake.
(11/15/17 1:53am)
Six openly LGBTQ+ politicians were elected in North Carolina’s municipal elections Nov. 7 — bringing the total of openly LGBTQ+ elected officials in the state to 20.
(11/15/17 12:44am)
Duke is launching a center that will aim to decrease health care disparities among racial and ethnic minorities.