The College Board has quietly discontinued a tool that helped universities identify high-achieving students from disadvantaged schools and neighborhoods, following the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling striking down race-based affirmative action. That program, called Landscape, does not search by race, but instead allows universities to search various categories related to […]
By Gus Saltonstall One person was hospitalized after a fire broke out Saturday night on the Upper West Side, FDNY confirmed to West Side Rag. The blaze ignited around 8:30 p.m. within an apartment on the 15th floor of 185 West End Avenue, which is […]
Cops shot and killed a man at a Brooklyn police precinct on Sunday morning after he allegedly slashed one officer with a knife, sources familiar with the case said. According to NYPD Chief of Patrol Mark Vasquez, the incident first unfolded when a man entered the 73rd […]
Dorian Johnson, the friend who was with Mike Brown when he was shot and killed by former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, is dead at the age of 33. According to KSDK, officers responding to an 8:30 a.m. call found Johnson shot. He was taken to […]
Shakira Zahiruddin is accusing Barnard College, an all-women’s institution, of firing her to avoid compensation for maternity leave. The eight-months-pregnant custodian alleges the college violates seniority protocols and female rights. Zahiruddin believes the institution intentionally canceled her employment to avoid compensating her during maternity leave, the New York […]
Despite President Donald Trump’s insistence that residents, especially Black residents, in Democrat-run cities are in favor of his deployment of National Guard troops to fight allegedly out-of-control crime in their neighborhoods, polls consistently show that most American voters — including most residents of Washington, D.C., and Chicago — oppose his weaponization […]
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