Kenneth J. CooperAfrican-AmericanScholars: Slavery’s Legacy Present in Current Policies, Social CustomsWALTHAM, Mass. A few hundred people spent a day and a half at Brandeis University this week discussing a subject that most people generally avoid: slavery. The conference focused on overcoming the present “religious and sexual legacy” of the Atlantic slave trade and systems of bondage embedded in the original teachings of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.October 17, 2006HomeBlacks Will Be Undercounted Under New Proposal, Civil Rights Groups SayCivil rights groups are opposing the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to change the way colleges and K-12 schools have collected information about the race and ethnicity of their students for the past four decades.September 30, 2006Faculty & StaffFirst Haitian-American College President Encourages Faculty to ‘Infuse Globalism into Their Curriculum’BOSTON For a year and a half, Berotte Joseph has led Massachusetts Bay Community College in Wellesley, a prosperous Boston suburb that is a long way from the colonial-style neighborhood in Port-au-Prince where she spent her first eight years before emigrating to the United States in 1957.September 27, 2006Previous PagePage 9 of 9
