Posts Tagged ‘Southern University’
White doctor charged with hate crime against Black female student-athlete
A Louisiana doctor has been identified as the man who allegedly attacked a female student-athlete at Southern University. According to WBRZ News, the woman’s attacker has been identified as 54-year-old Shane McKinney, a Baton Rouge, LA pediatrician. On Wednesday, Nov. 11, McKinney was arrested and charged with simple battery. The physician’s arrest comes just one…
Read MoreBarack Obama congratulates former prisoner he freed for making dean’s list
In a gesture that is rare in these technological times, former President Barack Obama actually penned a handwritten letter to congratulate a woman he freed from multiple life sentences after she made the dean’s list in college. Obama granted Danielle Metz clemency just before he left office in January 2017. Metz had been sentenced to…
Read MoreSolicitor General Keith E. Gammage shares how Southern University prepared him
Keith E. Gammage is an Atlanta native and the solicitor general of Fulton County. He earned both his undergraduate and law degrees from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As the solicitor general, his office prosecutes misdemeanor offenses, including domestic violence, cruelty to children, impaired driving, elder abuse, and animal cruelty. Since taking office in…
Read MoreKimberly Slay-Holmes provides legal leadership in Minnesota
There are only a few Historically Black law schools in America. Despite the fact Kimberly Slay-Holmes had never visited the South, emphatically, she wanted to attend one for so many reasons: to see people of color, succeed, and to find a network who supported one another. Kimberly fared well from her choice. After fifteen years…
Read MoreSouthern University students gunned down at off campus party
A tragic shooting at an off campus “house party” has claimed the lives of two Southern University students near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The shooting occurred at an off campus apartment complex known as Cottages Apartments. The complex is part of American Campus Communities, which specializes in housing for college students. According to witnesses, there have…
Read MorePZI Jeans’ Daniel C. Jason, the man behind the curves
Meet lawyer by day and a void filler Daniel C. Jason. President and CEO of PZI Jeans, he saw a void in the marketplace for a conscious line of denim which fit curvy women and filled it, fashionably. Their motto “Design denim for the woman with more in the hips and rear with no gap at…
Read MoreFAMU Student Robert Champion Killed by Hazing: 4 Other Major Hazing Cases
Robert Champion, the FAMU band member whose sudden death last month caused a national uproar, was killed exactly the way many believed and had feared he had: his death was caused by the trauma resulting from a severe hazing beating he received from fellow band members, the state medical examiner’s office has ruled. In what…
Read MoreNCAA Shows Double Standard for HBCUs and Poor Academic Performance
In theory, the NCAA is supposed to be the objective watch dog for all collegiate athletics programs. In theory, it serves punishment for offenders in the same objective manner. The reality is that it maintains a harsher standard for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) when compared to major white institutions. I am the product…
Read MoreGov. Bobby Jindal Proposes Closing Southern University
Across America, many historically black colleges and universities are having a rough time making it. The most recent added to this list is the historic Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. Still trying to recover from the impact of Hurricane Katrina, the campus is plagued with water-damaged and gutted buildings. Now the university has to…
Read MoreSouthern University Athletic Director Fired After Prostitution Sting
Southern University has fired Athletic Director Greg LaFleur. A reverse sting operation conducted last Sunday by Houston police has the 52-year-old LaFleur charged with allegedly soliciting prostitution from an undercover police officer. Southern’s athletic director for six years, the Ville Platte, La., native and LSU star former NFL tight end was released Monday on $500…
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