Howard University Student Forced to Skip College to Pay For Hidden Camera Speeding Tickets
The purpose of the police issuing speeding tickets is to discourage people from speeding because speeding can lead to accidents. At least that’s rationale we’re given, but speeding tickets have become a main source of income for many cities, making it less about safety and more about ensuring a steady stream of income. Enter hidden [...]
Obama Administration Creating African American Education Office
President Obama has an 89 percent approval rating in the black community, and although that’s pretty high, it’s still down from the 95 percent approval rating he had when he took office. After murmurings that President Obama isn’t doing enough for black people, and some high profile criticism from Dr. Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, [...]
Black Law School Graduate Ends Hunger Strike
In this exclusive interview, NewsOne contributing editor Bakari Kitwana spoke with Zenovia N. Evans, JD, who started a hunger strike on August 5 th to protest law school transparency. Speaking about developments with the movement to hold law schools accountable to graduates with rising debt and declining job opportunities, she confirms that she ended the strike on Saturday under medical advice—after losing sixteen pounds. Graduate student protest blogs like Ms. Evans’s unemployedjd.com want law schools to make public salary and employment data of recent graduates. “The strike is over, but the protest continues,†she says. Zenovia N. Evans, JD is a 2009 graduate of Thomas M. Cooley Law School. She started the blog unemployedjd.com writing under the pseudonym Ethan Haines. Click here for exclusive audio of interview Click here to view photos: RELATED: Daughter Of Civil Rights Lawyer William Kunstler Release Tell All Documentary
