University of Missouri Protests

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri on Thursday fired an assistant professor who had been suspended after run-ins with student journalists during protests last year, including a videotaped confrontation where she called for “some muscle” to remove a videographer from the Columbia campus. Melissa Click’s actions were “not compatible with university policies […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An interim chancellor on Monday rebuffed demands for the ouster of an assistant University of Missouri professor that have been rekindled in the wake of her being criminally charged for a campus run-in with student journalists during protests. Hank Foley, who oversees the four-school system’s campus in Columbia, said the […]

In the wake of a strike by the University of Missouri’s football team during the height of the school’s racial tension in November, a state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would punish athletes for taking such a stand in the future. State Rep. Rick Brattin, a Republican from Harrisonville, filed a proposal Friday that would […]

The situation that continues to unfold on the campus of the University of Missouri has intensified, with calls for violence against Black students and the…

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 […]

If you read anything today, it should definitely be these tweets.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Internet users of the Yik Yak social media app popular among college students aren’t nearly as anonymous as they believe: Missouri police within hours arrested a student accused of threatening violence, the latest in a string of such arrests at colleges in recent months involving threats of mass violence posted online using […]