CHAMPAIGN – Here's how the movie went: Denzel Washington plays a professor who forms a debate team at his Texas college in 1935. It's the Jim Crow era, and the team of black students is the first to debate teams from white colleges. They go…
Two girls are at a Union party at the University. The music is loud and everyone is dancing to the music. One of the girls bumps into a Champaign resident. The girl proceeds to call her a "townie." This starts an argument and later a…
Two years ago, Student Affairs and the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations put out a national search for a new director for the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center (BNAACC) after Nathaniel Banks left to become director of…
This study compares the academic performance of black
American graduate students who graduated from traditionally black
colleges (Group A) with the academic performance of black American
graduate students who graduated from historically white…
CHAMPAIGN – Adrienne Spires has been a counselor, educator and parent of two daughters.
It's that last job that landed her on a panel alongside academics and agency directors who will help decide how to spend a $9 million Champaign County…