The students of Yale University used their voices to speak out against several instances of racial injustice on the Ivy League campus.
Yale's Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter has found themselves hot water (again) after they were accused of racial discrimination for allowing "white girls only" into a Halloween party last week.
Prominent UVA news source, @cavalierdaily , publishes racist stories as April Fools jokes? #FailingToSeeTheComedy pic.twitter.com/pifzI1fXvN — UVA Nupes (@EtaSigmaNUPES) April 1, 2015 Jokes and pranks are common on April Fools’ Day, but when they’re tied to race, that’s crossing the line. The Cavalier Daily, an independent student newspaper at the University of Virginia, came under […]
A former member of a fraternity at the University of Oklahoma is finally speaking out, and issuing an apology, after he was caught leading the racist chant that led to the closing of the SAE chapter. Levi Pettit gave a public apology at a press conference, where he stood before several black Oklahoma City community […]
Sigma Alpha Epsilon got caught singing its racist chant recently, and now the fraternity seems to be on a mission to erase all of its historical racism. A few members have taken it upon themselves to adjust the fraternity’s history page. According to Gawker: Prior to this week, SAE’s official website was open and proud about its […]
National leaders of Sigma Alpha Epsilon are investigating reports that other chapters have used the racist chant sung by University of Oklahoma frat members, according to the Los Angeles Times. The move comes after a video surfaced online of Oklahoma chapter members chanting the song, which contains lyrics that embrace lynching and excluding black people from […]
UPDATED, 3:49 p.m. EST, 3-11-15 While discussing the fallout over an Oklahoma fraternity’s racist chant video on Wednesday, MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough said the students may have learned the song from rap music, the New York Daily News reports. Reports the New York Daily News: The conversation started when co-host […]
In the midst of all the racial tension happening in the world today, Waka Flocka Flame is the latest star to take a stand against prejudice. After a video surfaced online of the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on a party bus chanting racial slurs, people everywhere were outrage by the frat’s behavior. […]
UPDATED, 2:20 p.m. EST, 3-10-15: Howard Dixon, who worked for 15 years as a chef at the now-defunct Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, says that while he considers the former chapter members to be family, he does not blame officials for taking action against them, Yahoo News reports. According to the news site: “I think […]
