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More African-American high school seniors send their SAT scores to N.C. State than to any other traditionally white college in the nation. NCSU appeared seventh in a list of 15, ranked behind six predominantly black universities, such as Howard…

Technician is deciding on the journalistic use of the term black as opposed to the term African-American. The debate stems from the fact that there seems to be a growing trend toward using African-American. However, this term is not as accurate as…

Recently, Technician published an editorial that explored the issue of what Africans should be called in America. As an African, born in America, I was deeply disappointed with your editorial. In my opinion, it lacked depth and sensitivity.…

If I didn't know any better, I would swear that my friend, whom I'll refer to as "John," was the long-lost older brother my parents never bothered to tell me about. The fact that we have so much in common and look so much alike is absolutely…

Affirmative action programs seek to provide a larger applicant pool for desirable positions through quality training and recruiting. Once the larger pool is in place, previously disadvantaged minorities have an equal chance for selection. For many…

On Nov. 16, Louisiana Republicans will vote to determine if David Duke will be their candidate in the next governor’s race. Duke is a former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. His stance on white supremacy led him to organize the…

The David Duke campaign, the Bush inspired quota scare, and of course, the ever popular “anti-PC” movement compromise the current backlash against enlightened thinking. These three seemingly separate events are actually inter-connected in…

I would like to correct his “bottom line” of what discrimination is. It is not, as he states when “someone or some group feels cheated out of their perogatives or insulted by beliefs that don’t agree with theirs.”…

In January, we celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday, and it's fitting because he wanted everyone to live in peace and harmony and work together to get rid of such diseases as bigotry and hatred toward people due to race, religion, sex, age and…

There exists, however, a hard-core group of radical blacks who are of substantial numbers and are very vocal. They don’t want equality but supremacy. They are of the same mold as the Aryan Brotherhood except that their aim is the extermination…