In a recent article, Slate.com has pointed out a number of inaccuracies in a recent news story theNew York Daily News published on rapper Roxanne Shante[click to read].
In the New York Daily News story, the newspaper reports that Roxanne Shante[click to read] was able to get her former record label, Warner Music, to fund her college education for life. The Daily News also reported that an impressive $200,000 was dished out to fund Shante’s education.
The news story stated that Shante received an undergraduate degree from Marymount Manhattan College and a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell.
But according to Slate.com, a majority of the facts in the New York Daily News story are false.
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Slate’s investigation revealed that, “According to Warner, neither it nor any of its subsidiary record labels ever had a contract with Shante, and it was not obligated to pay for her education. Indeed, there’s no evidence that it ever did.”
The investigation by Slate also exposed that Shante does not have a degree from Marymount Manhattan College or Cornell University.
In an e-mail to Slate.com, Shante explained that “I also attended college under an alias, because of a domestic violence situation…[I] made a mistake on an application and put my old name so maybe that’s the reason for the computer error?”
Shante has yet to speak to any other publication regarding Slate‘s investigation.
