IOWA CITY - Iowa City police said a hate crime was committed when a white man assaulted a black man with a metal pipe earlier this month. Darrell L. Abbott, 46, who is white, inserted himself into a ...

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I am a Cal Poly graduate. Attending the San Luis Obispo university was a wonderful learning experience and a homecoming for me after five years living on the East Coast. Post-secondary education opens ...

Former Cal Poly track athlete Shereese Cutler is writing a book on remarkable Black alumni that she hopes will inspire her own dreams. Cutler, who graduated from the San Luis Obispo university in 2014 ...

As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car for their drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle. “I would love to be able to have him put a cup under the tap if he was ...

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