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"I’ve gotten accustomed to entering spaces where I am the first, or the only," said Gilda Barabino.

Carnegie Mellon University and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation announced Wednesday a $116 million gift to endow scholarships for graduate students studying STEM from groups underrepresented in the fields,

Carnegie Mellon University and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation announced Wednesday a $116 million gift to endow scholarships for graduate students studying STEM from groups underrepresented in the fields, including racial minorities, women and first-generation college students

CMU and the Norman and Ruth Rales Foundation hope a $150 million initiative will support a new generation of students trying to achieve that American dream.

The disparity of graduation rates for Black and white scholarship athletes will become more glaring if the Supreme Court ends affirmative action.

Quantitative evidence that STEM students of color with the same preparation and interests as their White counterparts have very different outcomes.

Black students at predominantly white institutions report everything from instances of thinly veiled racism, homophobia, and sexism to outright racial hostility and intimidation. Experiencing such incidents has consequences that go well beyond feeling uncomfortable.

Three years ago, Lauren Bryant was walking across Appalachian State University’s campus with several other Black students when they were verbally assaulted with a racist tirade. “This guy in a pickup truck stopped at the light, rolled down his window, and just started calling us a bunch of N-words,” she recalled. It wasn’t the only […]

Three years ago, Lauren Bryant was walking across Appalachian State University's campus with several other Black students when they were verbally assaulted with a racist tirade.

Have Black Lives Matter protests changed the curriculum? In 1903 the African-American sociologist WEB Du Bois coined the term ‘double consciousness’. American racism, he said, forced African-Americans to see themselves two ways. Among themselves, they were wives, husbands, friends, children. At the same time, America’s racial apartheid, ‘Jim Crow’, forced African-Americans to measure themselves as White America did, that is, with “contempt”. While discussing with African-America...