Minority Student Program News Today

Wade J. Henderson, who will be inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni, has been a champion of civil and human rights for decades. 

Ever since the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas unleashed a brutal attack on our closest ally, the State of Israel, last month, a number of antisemitic campus groups have stood up to defend the terrorists, including by denying that Hamas did the very things they proudly and openly . . .

Burlington County Expungement Clinic to be held November 2

Cuison-Villazor to serve as interim dean at Rutgers Law May 21, 2021 9:42 am Rutgers Law Vice Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor will serve as interim dean when Rutgers Law Co-Dean David Lopez steps down from his position June 30. Cuison-Villazor will become the first Asian-American woman dean at Rutgers Law and the first Filipina-American dean of any law school in the United States. Lopez, who became dean in 2018, will remain a professor at the law school. Lopez is stepping down to spend more time w...

A former New Jersey judge who helped create an organization to address the needs of Black students, graduates and practicing attorneys after the Newark, New Jersey, riots in the late 1960s has died.

Growing up in Camden, Jenise Rivera witnessed police officers stopping friends and neighbors – mostly Hispanic males – randomly. “Police asked people questions that shouldn’t really matter,” Rivera says. “Like when people were hanging around just talking, sitting on steps outside their homes, and kids doing what they normally do, being rambunctious.” National distrust between minority communities and the criminal justice system – born from years of injustices – prompted Rivera...