Black IssuesStudentsDecoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural ImpactDecoding Hip-Hop’s Cultural ImpactScholars are poised to take a close look at the influence of hip-hop on the social identity, values of today’s youth.By Ronald RoachAs a cultural movement, hip-hop manages to get billed as both a positive and negative influence on young people, especially on Black and Latino youth. On one hand, there are […]April 21, 2004Faculty & StaffWho’s Playin’ Whom?Who’s Playin’ Whom?Overwhelming influence of hip-hop culture, rap music on HBCU campuses concerns students, faculty By Pearl StewartIn December 2000, Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette had harsh words for the hip-hop movement that was sweeping his campus. When he was interviewed for an article in Black Issues titled “The Miseducation of Hip-Hop,” Midgette didn’t hold back: […]April 21, 2004HomeAdministration as ActivismAdministration as Activism The suit. The paper-pusher. The gatekeeper. Few people go into administrative work to become one of these, nonetheless many of us end up living up to these management stereotypes. Sometimes this is the result of a deliberate effort to maintain a sense of control and prestige. More often than not it appears […]April 21, 2004HomeColo. State Students Voice Concern Over Albright Speech on Chavez DayColo. State Students Voice Concern Over Albright Speech on Chavez DayFORT COLLINS, Colo.Hispanic students at Colorado State University were concerned that scheduling former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to speak on a day honoring Cesar Chavez discredits efforts to educate the community about their heritage. Albright spoke at CSU’s Moby Arena, two hours after a […]April 21, 2004HomeOnce-Barred Student Emerges as UT Presidential CandidateOnce-Barred Student Emerges as UT Presidential Candidate KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Dr. Kenneth Olden couldn’t get into the University of Tennessee when he graduated from high school in the 1950s because of the color of his skin. Today, a little less than 50 years later, UT is getting another chance. Olden, who rose from poverty to become […]April 21, 2004HBCUsMorehouse College Earns National Academic Champion TitleMorehouse College Earns National Academic Champion TitleORLANDO, Fla.After a three-day competition last month among the best and brightest academic all-stars from historically Black colleges and universities, a team of students from Morehouse College in Atlanta earned the national champion title at the 15th annual Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (HCASC) in Orlando, Fla.Winning the best two-out-of-three […]April 21, 2004HomePace University Scholar Wins Grant to Edit Fugitive Slave PapersPace University Scholar Wins Grant to Edit Fugitive Slave PapersNEW YORKHarriet Jacobs (1813-1897), the fugitive slave who wrote the landmark memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself, is the only African American woman held in slavery whose papers are known to exist. Fifteen years ago, against the prevailing judgment, Dr. […]April 21, 2004Leadership & PolicyDesmond Tutu Featured at CU-Boulder AIDS SymposiumDesmond Tutu Featured at CU-Boulder AIDS Symposium BOULDER, Colo.Nobel Peace Prize-winner Desmond Tutu kicked off a six-day “Stop the Silence” AIDS Symposium last month at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The former archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa, was the keynote speaker of the symposium that included advocates and scholars from CU-Boulder and Harvard […]April 21, 2004SportsFormer Football Great Stirs Controversy With Comments on Black AthletesFormer Football Great Stirs Controversy With Comments on Black AthletesSOUTH BEND, Ind.Just one day after suggesting that Notre Dame needed to lower their academic standards to “get the Black athlete,” former Heisman Trophy winner Paul Hornung said he regretted his comments.“I was wrong,” Hornung told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “What I should […]April 21, 2004HomeFormer Plattsburgh State President to Become Grambling’s Seventh PresidentFormer Plattsburgh State President to Become Grambling’s Seventh President BATON ROUGE, La. Dr. Horace Judson, the former president of Plattsburgh State University of New York, has been named the next president of Grambling State University. The board of supervisors for the University of Louisiana System made its selection after a four-month national search. Judson will […]April 21, 2004Previous PagePage 81 of 431Next Page
