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Commentary: Why Diversity Still Matters

If the Supreme Court bars the use of race in college admissions decisions, it threatens years of work by civil rights activists who fought to make campuses more integrated, diverse and just, a think tank analyst writes.

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FAMU Research Initiative to Focus on Hazing

Florida A&M University, in stepping up its efforts to demonstrate its seriousness about quelling hazing on campus over the long term, has established a $50,000 research fund for FAMU faculty to “study the nature and extent of hazing behaviors among campus organizations and groups.”

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Fisk University’s Hazel O’Leary to Continue Helping Fisk after Retirement

Fisk University president Hazel O’Leary said earlier this week that she plans to continue helping the financially embattled institution after her retirement, which is scheduled for the end of 2012.

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Cataloging the Pan-African Experience

A longtime collector of books and rare items by and about African-Americans, Charles L. Blockson donated an art and artifact collection to Temple University that helps students and teachers grasp the history of peoples of African descent.

Charles L. Blockson

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Officials Lead National African-American History and Culture Museum Groundbreaking

In a project hailed as a milestone in the nation’s history, President Obama joined celebrities, political luminaries and scholars Wednesday for the symbolic groundbreaking of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Civil Rights Veterans Teach the Movement

Robert Moses and Charles Cobb are among the 1960s civil rights activists who have made the transition to academia, helping students born in a different era understand how the freedom struggle transformed America.

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University of Pennsylvania Names W.E.B. DuBois Honorary Emeritus Professor

After barring W.E.B. DuBois as a young sociologist from a teaching job more than a century ago, the University of Pennsylvania has now granted the late scholar an honorary professorship.

Dr. W.E.B. DuBois

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Fisk University President Hazel R. O’Leary to Retire in December

News of O’Leary’s departure announcement comes as the school manages to maintain a small, solid academic program while continuing to lose enrollment and thirst for a huge infusion of money to keep its doors open.

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Prominent FAMU Trustee Resigns from University Board

Richard Dent III, a Florida A & M University graduate and successful retail executive, resigned earlier this month from his post as vice chair of the FAMU Board of Trustees.

Richard Dent III

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Lawsuit in FAMU Death Reveals Details of Hazing

The parents of a Florida A&M band member who died after being hazed filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the owner and driver of the charter bus where the ritual took place, and revealed new details about what might have happened the night Robert Champion died.

Robert Champion

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New Book Explores Black History and the American Presidency

Every president of the United States from George Washington to Barack Obama has had to confront issues surrounding African-Americans and race relations in America.

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Albany State Awards Honorary Degrees to 32 Students Expelled for 1961 Protests

Dr. Everette Freeman said when he became president of Albany State, an HBCU, in 2005, he knew he wanted to honor the Albany Movement students for their civil rights activism.

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