Duke's first five Black undergraduates, clockwise from top left: Nathaniel White Jr., Mary Mitchell Harris, Gene Kendall, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke and Cassandra Smith Rush.

After a black student at Duke University said she was taunted last weekend by one of a group of white men with the racist chant about the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, some students are ...

The three surviving members of Duke University's so-called "First Five" were honored Thursday at a ceremony celebrating 50 years since they made history by blazing the trail for black students at ...

A full-ride scholarship to Duke University meant for Black students only will now be open to white, Hispanic, Asian, and Latino students in the wake of affirmative action ending. The Reginaldo ...

For the last week, many in academe have been debating comments made on Twitter by Saida Grundy, a new faculty member at Boston University, in which she said, “Why is white america [sic] so reluctant ...

Meghan Markle. Trevor Noah. Depending on your race, you might consider these and other Multiracial people as Black, White, or somewhere in-between, according to new research by psychologists at Duke ...

She was black, they were white, and race and sex were in the air. But whatever actually happened that March 13 night at Duke University -- both the reported rape and its surrounding details are ...

For the first time in campus history, Duke University will name a building after a Black woman. The sociology-psychology building on the North Carolina school's West Campus will be named after ...