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- Rutgers University has received a $100,000 donation from Verizon Wireless for the university's Center on Violence Against Women and Children
- RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (N.J.) has received a $100,000 donation from Verizon Wireless for the university's Center on Violence Against Women and Children. The funds will create the HopeLine Scholarship which will support graduate students who are studying violence against women and children.
- Research articles 2008-03-06
- Verizon Wireless Funds $100,000 HopeLine Scholarship at Rutgers University School of Social Work
- To: EDUCATION EDITORS Contact: David Samberg of Verizon Wireless, +1-845-365-7212, david.samberg@verizonwireless.com; Ken Branson of Rutgers University, +1-732-932-7084, ext. 633, kbranson@ur.rutgers.edu MORRISTOWN, N.J., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its commitment to domestic violence prevention and awareness, Verizon Wireless joined with Rutgers University today to announce the creation of a new...
- Research articles 2008-02-19
- Ebony takes a look at race, language and a society of disrespect in its July issue
- When Don Imus used demeaning remarks to describe women on the Rutgers University basketball team, America began to talk. Months later, people are still talking about this incident, and what language is acceptable or unacceptable. EBONY addresses the widespread matter of insolence in its Special Section, "The Culture of Disrespect."...
- Research articles 2007-06-18
- A revealing series of events
- I didn't think the Rutgers University women's basketball team needed to go public. After all, why dignify nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus's remark with a response? But I'm so glad they did, because they humanized this news event and presented an image that was in stark contrast to his...
- Research articles 2007-05-03
- Life after Imus: the debate has already begun over whether hip-hop culture perpetuates the denigration of Black women
- Now that shock jock Don Imus has been fired for the racist and sexist remarks he made about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, attention has turned to whether rap music perpetuates a culture in which the denigration of Black women is acceptable. The debate started long before Imus...
- Research articles 2007-05-03
- After Imus: Blacks champion women, civility and decency
- Women and Blacks across the nation are applauding the recent firing of Don Imus' by CBS Radio and MSNBC and see it as a step forward in fighting racism and sexism in America. During a radio interview that was simulcast on MSNBC, Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team...
- Research articles 2007-04-30
- Now silence from Clinton, Obama
- WASHINGTON -- If it's demeaning to use the words "ho" and "hoes" to describe women, is it OK to take money from people who get rich doing just that? That's the sticky question facing two leading Democratic candidates for president, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and...
- Research articles 2007-04-24
- A Team Stands Tall
- It was a team meeting unlike any other. Seated on straight-backed chairs and couches in a living room of the New Jersey governor's mansion just outside Princeton, 10 members of Rutgers University's women's basketball team shared their pain with Don Imus last Thursday over sandwiches, salads and sodas. C. Vivian...
- Research articles 2007-04-23
- Don Imus under fire for racist Rutgers remarks
- Black leaders are outraged by racist comments made by shock jock Don Imus against women's basketball teams from Rutgers and Tennessee and are demanding that he be fired. The WFAN radio personality called the women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" during a radio interview simulcast on MSNBC. Imus' producer Bernard...
- Research articles 2007-04-23
- The Power That Was
- As he spoke, Don Imus had no inkling--none, he later told NEWSWEEK--that he had said anything that would cause him trouble. Wednesday, April 4, started and finished like any other day for the talk-show host. Enthroned in his high-backed chair in his New Jersey studio just outside New York City,...
- Research articles 2007-04-23
- Imus was wrong, but news coverage of comment has gone too far
- Should radio talk show host Don Imus have called the Rutgers University's female basketball players "nappy-headed hos"? Of course not. Should he have lost his job at MSNBC and CBS? No way. The coverage of the Rutgers basketball team's overly maudlin news conference would actually be...
- Research articles 2007-04-17
- CBS fires Imus from radio show
- The tidal wave of outrage that had already cost Don Imus his TV show swept him off the airwaves altogether yesterday, eight days after the radio pundit used a racial slur to describe the Rutgers University women's basketball team.CBS president Leslie Moonves announced that the network was immediately canceling Imus...
- Research articles 2007-04-13
- Statement by the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials on the Don Imus Remarks
- To: RADIO-TELEVISION EDITORSContact: Sherry Conway Appel, +1-202-626-3003, or Eboni Morris, +1- 202-626-3041, both of National League of Cities WASHINGTON, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From the President of the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO), Terry Riley, councilman, Kansas City, Mo., on behalf of all NBC-LEO officers: "It...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Rutgers women outlast Imus idiocy
- AS she faced the worlds television cameras to respond to a gross insult by radio and television showman Don Imus, a member of the Rutgers University womens basketball team spoke volumes with one sentence: Im not a ho, she said in the teams first news conference after...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Rutgers' women outlast Imus idiocy
- AS SHE faced the world's television cameras to respond to a gross insult by radio and television showman Don Imus, a member of the Rutgers University women's basketball team spoke volumes with one sentence: "I'm not a ho," she said in the team's first news conference after...
- Research articles 2007-04-12
- Not standing for it
- PISCATAWAY, N.J. - In a performance almost as inspired as their near-championship run, members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team showed yesterday that they are about the content of their character and their talents, not just the color of their skin and certainly not the hurtful words of radio...
- Research articles 2007-04-11
- Editorial | Don Imus' Offense
- Radio personality Don Imus' first response to criticism of his racist, misogynist description of the Rutgers University women's basketball team was that people shouldn't get worked up about "some idiot comment meant to be amusing."His indifference predictably set off the antennae of civil rights leaders always on the lookout for...
- Research articles 2007-04-10
- Imus is suspended; will it be enough?
- Radio "shock jock" Don Imus has been hit with a shock of his own.The popular personality, known as "I-Man," will be suspended for two weeks, beginning Monday, for his on-air racial slurs about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, CBS and NBC officials confirmed late yesterday.The syndicated Imus in the...
- Research articles 2007-04-10
- Angry N.J. rallies in defense of its wounded heroes
- As the national firestorm raged on over a radio host's racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, New Jersey yesterday rushed to the defense of its wounded heroes.Much of the state - including Gov. Corzine - rallied around the players, consoling them and voicing the rage and...
- Research articles 2007-04-10
- On the air or anywhere, let's say no to 'ho'
- WHAT would possess nappy-headed radio host Don Imus to think "nappy-headed hos" was an amusing way to describe the Rutgers University women's basketball team? Why would it occur to him to say such a thing even in private conversation, much less to millions of listeners on CBS Radio and the...
- Research articles 2007-04-10
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