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The Senate version of the measure also no longer includes a ban on majors and minors in critical race theory, intersectionality and certain gender studies. Yet, that language remains in the House version of the bill.

Historically black colleges and universities are developing new pathways for formerly incarcerated people to earn a degree and transition

An AAUP staffer is asking Florida Memorial University to reverse its decision to terminate three tenured professors who were laid off in May. The faculty members have alleged the school discriminated against them and didn't follow its policies on cutting positions.

Ten professors at Florida Memorial University are now out of a job, accounting for 13% of the faculty at the historically Black school. Some of the professors are claiming the decision was discriminatory.

South Florida's only historically Black university was put on probation in 2021, after years of declining enrollment. But after a recent campus visit, representatives from the school's accrediting organization say Florida Memorial University should be taken off probation.

A committee formed by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

State Sen. Shevrin Jones joins us to talk about historically black colleges and the special session. Wildlife Thursday returns — we're talking manatees. And Jazz singer Cecile McLorin Salvant talks to us about growing up in South Miami and that influence on her music.

"We have to show that we are not afraid," Dillard University President Walter Kimbrough says. The FBI is probing the threats as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism and hate crimes.

Students at the prominent historically Black university in Washington, D.C., had been protesting poor housing conditions since Oct. 12. The details of the agreement were not immediately available.

Tennessee could owe a historically Black university over $500 million. Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, believes the problem cuts much deeper: "We're throttling the economy."

More than 2 million Black men who pursued a higher education never reached graduation. Morehouse President David Thomas says a flexible new online program aims to help them cross the finish line.

Students at historically Black colleges and universities in Florida are finding different ways to cope with illness, grief, family obligations and uncertainty. For the multiethnic Black community, COVID-19 has been an added stressor atop another centuries-long pandemic: racial injustice.