On February 1, 1960, four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s store. While sit-ins had been held elsewhere in the United States, the Greensboro sit-in catalyzed a wave of nonviolent protest against private-sector segregationContinue Reading

The University of Notre Dame is involved in a bizarre sex scandal and has since fired a female academic coach amid allegations she coerced young African-American football and basketball players into having sex with her daughter. The unnamed academic coach violated the university’s “values” and its “discrimination harassment policy,” accordingContinue Reading