Following the revelation that Virginia Governor Ralph Northam had a photograph of a student in blackface and another student in a Ku Klux Klan costume on his 1984 yearbook page, the Eastern Virginia Medical School announced it would investigate how this could have happened.
Two White women at the University of Oklahoma posted a video on social media showing one of the women in blackface and using a racial slur. The two women have now withdrawn from the university.
A member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority at the University of Tennessee was suspended from the Greek organization after a racist video surfaced on social media. The student was asked on a short video what she called Black people. She shouted “Niggers.”
Two football players at St. Jon Fisher College were reportedly yelling racial slurs when they pulled down a statue of Frederick Douglass.
A White sophomore at Columbia University in New York City was seen on video harassing a group of African American students outside the Butler Library on campus.
The graffiti which contained a racial slur, included the dormitory room numbers where Black students lived. African Americans make up 15 percent of the undergraduate student body at Goucher College.
Davidson College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in North Carolina, is investigating racist and anti-Semitic tweets. The Davidson College Sailing Team reportedly has removed two of its students due to connections with the racist tweets.
The Vanderbilt University Police Department is still conducting its own investigation and has notified the Metro Nashville Police Department, the Tennessee Fusion Center, and the FBI.
The student used a racial slur in a post on Facebook. She also stated “wish I could take credit” under a screenshot of a story about explosive devices that were sent to the residence of President Obama.
A student at the University of South Alabama in Mobile confessed to hanging a bicycle and two nooses in a tree outside a campus dining hall. Additionally, a dining hall employee was fired after an offensive tweet concerning the incident was posted from the university’s official dining hall twitter account.
A flyer from the University of Maryland’s Counseling Center stated that the group, called White Awake, was a place for “White students to explore their experiences, questions, reactions, and feelings” on race.
Tommia Dean, a former cheerleader at Kennesaw State University, is suing the university for violating her right to freedom of speech. Last season Dean knelt during the playing of the national anthem to protest police brutality directed against African Americans.
The 2018 investigation, conducted by students from 21 colleges and universities, analyzed the federal National Crime Victimization Survey and found more than 2.4 million cases of hate crimes from 2012 to 2016.
A sign on the outside of the Center for Black Culture at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, was defaced with a racial slur. The sign was immediately covered and will be repainted.
Among the Princeton Review’s 384 Best Colleges, Providence College in Rhode Island was rated as having the least race/class interaction. African Americans are just 4 percent of the undergraduate student body at Providence College.
Thousands of students, faculty and staff at Vanderbilt University received racist emails from a White supremacist group. The university was able to discover that the emails were sent from external systems using sophisticated masking techniques to hide who sent the messages.
The student was sitting in a common room on campus eating her lunch. The employee, who the college has not named, called police to say that an individual who “seemed to be out of place” was on campus.
After a racist photo was posted online, students on the Staten Island campus of St. john’s University staged a protest. The protesters were allegedly told to “go back from where you come from” and were taunted by White students with racial slurs.
A racist threat was found in a restroom on campus. A student dressed in blackface and wearing an offensive sign was seen at a local bar, and a racial slur was spelled out in stones at the DePauw Nature Park.
The university said 18 students had been “removed from academic participation” due to the video. A spokesperson said that “alternative class and study arrangements will be made for these students as the judicial process moves forward.”
The photos included a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity dressed in blackface and other members dressed in what was referred to as “gangsta” attire.
Racist graffiti was scrawled on the walls inside a dormitory room shared by two students at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Later, one of the two roommates was arrested and charged with ethnic intimidation, institutional vandalism, and criminal mischief.
On two occasions, racist graffiti was founded written on the wall in a bathroom at a residence hall at Kettering University. The graffiti targeted African American students. African Americans make up 3 percent of the undergraduate student body at the university.
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Pittsburgh is looking into a series of racist posts on social media that were included in a group message by several university students.
A White woman student from New Jersey at the University of Alabama was expelled from the educational institution after she posted racist videos on social media.
One of the flyers read: “You stupid monkeys handed Trump the White House, the minute you handed Hillary the nomination.” The second flyer stated in part, “Dumb Black Asses just pull the lever for whomever the party machine says to.”
The slogans included “Deport Them All” and “End White Guilt.” African Americans are just 2 percent of the undergraduate student body at the University of Oregon.
The flyers and banners contained messages such as “Reclaim America,” “No more tolerance, no more diversity,” and “White men! Save your people.”
The new protocol is aimed at ensuring a coordinated response, providing support to impacted community members and guaranteeing transparency with the campus community. The university’s Office of Diversity & Inclusion will hire a hate-bias response coordinator to assist with these efforts.
Racial slurs were found scrawled on a car near the campus of Kansas State University. In addition to racial slurs, the phrases “go home,” “date your own kind,” Whites only,” and “die” were written on the car. It turns out that the Black man who owned the car wrote the slurs.
A White woman student at the University of Hartford in Connecticut was expelled from school and faces criminal charges after she posted on social media that she had done several things to intimidate her Black roommate.
It seems like every Halloween there are numerous incidents of college students dressing in racially insensitive costumes. This year is no different.
Racial slurs were found on posters hanging in a residence hall at Framingham State University in Massachusetts. Two days later a racial slur was written in marker on the dormitory room door of two African American students.
Two Black Lives Matter posters were defaced on the campus of Boston College. Signs were later found on campus that showed a picture of Uncle Sam with the caption, “I want you to love who you are. Don’t apologize for being white.”
It didn’t take long for racial hate to rear its ugly head on college campus this fall. Hate crimes have occurred on a number of campuses.
Fliers promoting a White supremacist group were posted throughout the campus of Webster University in St. Louis. Blacks make up 16 percent of the undergraduate student body at the university.
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