Black Education / Schools : Black students interrupt Univ. of Kansas Town Hall in wake of Missouri protest

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Interim Missouri chancellor rebuffs calls to fire professor


KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An interim chancellor on Monday rebuffed demands for the ouster of an assistant University of Missouri professor that have been rekindled in the wake of her being criminally charged for a campus run-in with student journalists during protests ...


http://news.yahoo.com/assault-charge-filed-against-missouri-assistant-professor-163226653.html

University Missouri interim chancellor Hank Foley, right, answers questions during a news conference in Columbia, Mo., regarding charges filed against assistant communications professor Melissa Click, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Click was charged Monday with misdemeanor assault linked to her run-in with student journalists during campus protests last November, drawing a curator's renewed calls for her ouster. (Daniel Brenner/Columbia Daily Tribune via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Mo. students demand removal of diversity official


Nearly 25 MSU students staged a protest Monday in front of Carrington Hall, where they demanded answers, called for Meraz's removal and played excerpts of what is purportedly a recorded conversation with Meraz.

Juan Meraz, assistant vice president of multicultural services at Missouri State University. (Photo: File photo)

"You have every right to point out a wrong when it's wrong," said Xavier Torres Ghoston, during the protest. "... I should not have to stand out here in the cold asking for an explanation."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...s-demand-removal-diversity-official/79678808/

(Photo: Nathan Papes/News-Leader)

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Hundreds rally to protest attack on three black women at U. of Albany



Hundreds gathered Monday night for a rally to protest the Saturday night attack on a city bus of three black female students at the State University of New York in Albany .

The three were allegedly attacked by a group of 10 to 12 white men and women who also shouted racial slurs. They tweeted that the perpetrators were students, but there are no suspects yet.

In a video from the rally, one of the victims said, “We are black women, and no amount of hate will change that” ...



http://college.usatoday.com/2016/02...t-attack-on-three-black-woman-at-u-of-albany/

The rally, #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany, was sponsored by the National Congress of Black Women, according to the Times Union. It reported that one of its organizers, Amberly Carter, said it was “billed as more of a ‘press conference'” and included talk of Malcolm X and a poem.

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Hundreds rally to protest attack on three black women at U. of Albany



Hundreds gathered Monday night for a rally to protest the Saturday night attack on a city bus of three black female students at the State University of New York in Albany .

The three were allegedly attacked by a group of 10 to 12 white men and women who also shouted racial slurs. They tweeted that the perpetrators were students, but there are no suspects yet.

In a video from the rally, one of the victims said, “We are black women, and no amount of hate will change that” ...



http://college.usatoday.com/2016/02...t-attack-on-three-black-woman-at-u-of-albany/

The rally, #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany, was sponsored by the National Congress of Black Women, according to the Times Union. It reported that one of its organizers, Amberly Carter, said it was “billed as more of a ‘press conference'” and included talk of Malcolm X and a poem.

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Any updates about all of this too??