Black IssuesHomePresident Bush Seeks Sweeping Changes on Civil Rights PanelPresident Bush Seeks Sweeping Changes on Civil Rights Panel Gerald Reynolds to replace outgoing chairwoman Mary Frances BerryBy Charles DervaricsMajor changes are underway at the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that may have wide-ranging implications for colleges and universities seeking guidance from the Bush administration on affirmative action in higher education.President Bush has named Gerald Reynolds, […]December 29, 2004Leadership & PolicyIt’s a WrapIt’s a WrapEvents in 2004 proved riveting. One of the more highly anticipated events, besides the U.S. presidential election, was the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board. During one of the more glamorous celebrations of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, entertainer Bill Cosby took the occasion to criticize the behavior and […]December 29, 2004HomeBrown as Personal NarrativeBrown as Personal NarrativeBy Walter ClarkIam bi-racial. My mother is Japanese, and my father is African American. My parents in effect were equal opportunity daters. I grew up in my father’s old neighborhood in New York’s South Bronx. He grew up in a pre-Brown era. The South Bronx was predominantly Black and Hispanic, and the […]December 29, 2004StudentsStudent Aid Formula Seriously Flawed, Report FindsStudent Aid Formula Seriously Flawed, Report FindsBy Charles PekowCongressional Democrats, already steamed about cuts in federal student aid, are now bristling at a recent discovery that the U.S. Department of Education has been distributing billions of dollars of student aid under a misguided formula. The General Accounting Office’s (GAO) findings showed that the U.S. Department […]December 15, 2004HomeProfessional Appointments© Copyright 2005 by DiverseEducation.comDecember 15, 2004HomeEventsJANUARYJan. 5-8Association of American Law Schools (AALS)Annual Meeting“Engaged Scholarship”San FranciscoWeb: www.aals.org/amJan. 6-9National Black Student Leadership ConferenceThe Hyatt Regency-Crystal CityArlington, Va.Phone: (757) 220-7321Web: www.selg.com Jan. 11Anne Arundel Community College Juvenile Justice Conference of Maryland“Charting a New Course for the Future: Moving from Out-of-Home Placements to At-Home Treatment Supported by Wraparound Services”Pascal Center for Performing ArtsArnold, Md.Web: […]December 15, 2004HomeGrants & AwardsThe College of the Canyons (Calif.) EPIC Center for the Performing Arts received $2 million from Vital Express, a local and national transportation service provider, and will be renamed the Vital Express Center for the Performing Arts. Hampton University (Va.) was recently awarded a $107,459 grant from the Virginia State Council for Higher Education’s No […]December 15, 2004HomeThe “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery FictionThe “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery FictionBy Dr. Eve Allegra Raimon Rutgers University Press, 2004208 pp., $21.95 paper ISBN 0-8135-3482-8; cloth ISBN 0-8135-3481-X In The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited, Dr. Eve Allegra Raimon focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbolic vehicle for explorations of […]December 15, 2004HomeThe Two ReconstructionsThe Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black EnfranchisementBy Dr. Richard M. ValellyThe University of Chicago Press, 2004330 pp., $58.00 cloth ISBN 0-226-84528-1; $22.50 paperback ISBN 0-226-84530-3 The Reconstruction era marked a huge political leap for African Americans, who rapidly went from the status of slaves to voters and officeholders. Yet this hard-won progress lasted only […]December 15, 2004HomeBlack Notes: Essays of a Musician Writing in a Post-Album AgeBlack Notes: Essays of a Musician Writing in a Post-Album AgeBy Dr. William C. BanfieldScarecrow Press Inc., 2004 360 pp., $30.00 paper 0-8108-5278-XFollowing in the footsteps of renowned authors like Alain Locke, Harold Cruse and Amiri Baraka, Black Notes: Essays of a Musician Writing in a Post-Album Age, takes as its mission an important aesthetic […]December 15, 2004Previous PagePage 25 of 431Next Page
