Associated PressHomeNAACP Complains About GOP Tenn. AdNASHVILLE Tenn. A White woman with blonde hair and bare shoulders looks into the camera and whispers, “Harold, call me,” and then winks.This Republican National Committee television ad doesn’t mention that “Harold” Democratic Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. is Black, but the NAACP and others have complained the commercial makes an implicit appeal to deep-seated racial fears about Black men and White women.October 26, 2006Leadership & PolicyBroward Community College President ResignsFORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The first minority president of Broward Community College abruptly resigned this week after less than three years on the job. Larry Calderón announced a day later that he will join Nova Southeastern University as vice president of community and governmental affairs.October 26, 2006StudentsUniversity of Tennessee Creates Scholarship To Attract More Black StudentsMEMPHIS, Tenn. In an attempt to increase minority enrollment, the University of Tennessee is providing a new scholarship that will be available to students from 35 selected, majority Black high schools in the state.October 25, 2006WomenFederal Officials Ease Limits On Same-sex SchoolsWASHINGTON The Bush administration is giving public schools wider latitude to teach boys and girls separately in what is considered the biggest change to coed classrooms in more than three decades.October 23, 2006Leadership & PolicyThirty-six Years Later, School Honors Players’ Anti-racism StandSYRACUSE, N.Y. In 1970, nine Black Syracuse University football players became rebellious outcasts when they quit the team to protest racial injustice.October 23, 2006African-AmericanCoca-Cola To Donate Atlanta Land for Civil Rights MuseumATLANTA The Coca-Cola Co. announced Monday it would donate $10 million worth of prime downtown land to the city for a planned civil rights museum in the home town of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.October 23, 2006StudentsAdmissions Anxiety Reaches New RegionsDURHAM N.C. SAT tutors. High-priced essay coaches. Over-the-top parents who make selecting a college feel like a matter of life and death. They have become commonplace in admissions “hot spots,” largely in the Northeast and on the West Coast places where the college application process is palpably more intense than elsewhere. But now admissions anxiety is creeping into other parts of the country.October 21, 2006Leadership & PolicyOprah Winfrey Headlines Fundraiser For Bennett CollegeGREENSBORO, N.C. Oprah Winfrey headlined a fundraiser at Bennett College, encouraging about 300 guests to support education and give back to their community.October 21, 2006HBCUsDeath Penalty Sought For Former HBCU Professor Charged With MurderATLANTA The death penalty will be sought against a former mathematics professor accused of sending contract killers to murder his 22-year-old daughter-in-law, Fulton County prosecutors said this week.October 17, 2006StudentsClasses and Protests Resume at Gallaudet UniversityWASHINGTON Classes resumed this week at Gallaudet University, the nation’s premier school for the deaf, while faculty members voted overwhelmingly in support of students calling for the resignation of the incoming president.October 17, 2006Previous PagePage 501 of 569Next Page
