Texas A&M will pay $1M to Black professor following botched hiring and internal review
An internal investigation of Texas A&M’s botched hiring of Kathleen McElroy, a journalism professor and veteran journalist who is Black, concluded race and gender were not factors in the decision to reduce her tenure offer to a one-year position after conservative backlash over her work around diversity. The Texas A&M المزيد
Alpha Phi Alpha’s move out of Florida could be the first of many Black organizations
Statewide policies under Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis prompted the nation’s oldest Black fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, to pull its 2025 convention out of the state as a form of protest. But now, the group’s president, Willis L. Lonzer III, said he thinks his fraternity’s decision may galvanize other Black organizations المزيد
Ohio officer who sicced police dog on Black man defends himself on body cam video
The Ohio police officer who was fired after releasing a police dog on a Black man with his hands raised appeared to defend his actions in the immediate aftermath of the incident, according to new body camera footage. The video, which was captured by fired Circleville Police Department Officer Ryan المزيد
College Board pushes back on Florida work group member who likened new Black history standards to AP curriculum
The College Board has refuted claims its Advanced Placement African American Studies course contains the same language as a contested standard in Florida’s new African American history curriculum that says middle schoolers should be taught that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” المزيد
Most of Florida work group did not agree with controversial parts of state’s new standards for Black history, members say
A majority of the members of the Florida work group that developed new standards for teaching African American history opposed the sections that have recently drawn criticism, including that middle schoolers be instructed that enslaved people developed “skills” that could be used for their “personal benefit,” three members of the المزيد
Black fisherman repeatedly confronted by white neighbors, who ask what he’s doing there
Three times in one day, Anthony Gibson was asked by a white person what he was doing sitting by a pond in his neighborhood in Newnan, Georgia. “Another white person came and bothered me while I’m fishing,” Gibson said in a July 11 TikTok post for his TikTok account @fishingbay2ga. المزيد
Tim Scott rebukes Ron DeSantis over Florida Black history standards about slavery
ANKENY, Iowa — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only Black Republican in the Senate, rebuked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday for new public school standards that teach that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught them useful skills. “As a country founded upon freedom, the المزيد
Rep. Byron Donalds calls on Florida to ‘correct’ Black history standards on slavery
Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida on Wednesday called on the state Department of Education to “correct” its new standards for teaching Black history, after it suggested that slaves benefited from skills used during forced labor. “The new African-American standards in FL are good, robust, & accurate,” Donalds tweeted. “That being المزيد
Damar Hamlin and Bronny James’ incidents highlight the risk of sudden cardiac arrest in Black male athletes
When Bronny James, the 18-year-old son of LeBron James, collapsed Monday from cardiac arrest while working out at the University of Southern California, the incident was reminiscent of a similarly shocking collapse by Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin. In January, Hamlin, then 24 years old, collapsed on the field from المزيد
Store owner charged with murder in Black teen’s killing fights warrant over business records
A lawyer for a store owner in South Carolina facing a murder charge after police said he chased and shot a Black 14-year-old who he had falsely accused of stealing water has asked a judge to stop a search warrant for his business records. Cyrus Carmack-Belton was fatally shot in the back المزيد