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The story behind the protests against racial tensions on the campus of the University of Missouri last Fall will be the focus of a new short film from . The Huffington Post reports the film, titled “2 Fists Up,” will be a part of Lee’s “Spike Lee’s Lil’ Joints” series. The project will document how […]

The Huffington Post interviewed four black students at the University of Missouri about their experiences on campus and their encounters with racism. “Cultural insensitivity, racial slurs and de facto segregation are the common threads minority students say separate the 7 percent of black students from the 77 percent white students that make up the school’s […]

    As I wrote in my last commentary, I think even the NFL could learn from the Mizzou players who stood up for what they believed in. I also followed that sentence by asking you what you believe in. The reason I’m asking you again this time is because the only issue I have […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — University of Missouri police said Wednesday they have arrested a suspect accused of making online threats against black students and faculty, threats that added to racial tensions on campus that resulted in the departure of two senior university officials. Police did not release a name but said the suspect was not […]

Roland Martin talks to Jonathan Butler, a University of Missouri graduate student who is on a hunger strike until the university’s President Tim Wolfe resigns in light of racial inequalities on campus. On the status of his hunger strike: “I’m managing. My body is tired and hungry. I started last Monday and I’m only drinking […]