Angela P. DodsonHomeBlack History Month Book Review: A One-Woman MiracleThe basic facts Rebecca Skloot writes about are these: Henrietta Lacks grew up poor, orphaned and hard-working, even as a child, on her grandfather’s tobacco farm in rural Halifax County, Va. She died a painful death in 1951 at age 31 as the result of cancerous tumor on her cervix. She is buried in an unmarked grave in her hometown of Clover, Va.February 23, 2010African-AmericanBlack History Special Book Review: Redefining ‘Black Power’Images from the heyday of the Black Power movement live on in popular culture, but the view tends to be blurred. Most people probably consider it as a blip on the 400-year chronology of race relations in America. While some Americans romanticize the movement, others remember it as a short-lived, inflammatory and ill-advised crusade that ran against the tide of peaceful efforts to gain and protect civil rights.February 11, 2010HomeDiverse Bookshelf – Putting Education on the Front BurnerFor the ‘Father of Black History,’ the education of Blacks was the issue.February 3, 2010SportsDIVERSE BOOKSHELF: Holiday HelpingsHere are a few delectable dishes that can satisfy any literary appetite until the new year.December 23, 2009African-AmericanDIVERSE BOOKSHELF: Further Along the RiverA new study sheds light on the effects of student life on college success.November 25, 2009Community CollegesDIVERSE BOOKSHELF : FALLING BEHINDNo sooner had the ink dried and the Sept. 9 news embargo on this book passed than it became one of the most widely reviewed and analyzed academic studies released in a long time.October 14, 2009HomeStudies Offer Conflicting Results on ‘Obama Effect’When exposed to Obama’s political success, test scores for Blacks improved in one study but not in another.June 24, 2009HomeStudies Offer Conflicting Results On ‘Obama Effect’Could merely knowing that a Black man has been elected president of the United States raise the scores of Blacks on standardized tests and shrink the unrelenting and formidable achievement gap?June 3, 2009Faculty & StaffOhio-based Professor Examines Lives of Black Women Scholars in BookFinding herself the lone Black, female professor in her department, Dr. Joanne Kilgour Dowdy confronted her situation the best way she knew how.May 11, 2009Faculty & StaffBroadening the Definition of DiversityA new book examines the strategies of faculty to serve as “change agents,” encouraging diversity on campus.April 1, 2009Previous PagePage 11 of 15Next Page
