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As President Donald Trump continues to crack down on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, a complex and unpredictable landscape is emerging for prospective college students.

The president of the only historically Black university in South Florida has stepped down due to an unspecified health reason.

To people who watch high-level philanthropy, Florida A&M's embarrassing incident wasn't only a shocking reversal. It was something they've seen before. The school is now investigating what went wrong.

The governor says almost $570 million in the budget this year will go toward school safety measures in public and private K-12 schools.

Eating is a basic physiological need. How that need is met is, increasingly often, is dependent on income. Between two public universities in the same Florida city, income and access lines can be as pronounced as the railroad tracks that divide them.

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.