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Henry Louis Gates Explores Black Culture in Latin America

“Black in Latin America” is the companion book to the PBS television series Henry Louis Gates Jr. produced tracing the legacy of slavery in six Caribbean and Latin American nations.

Henry Louis Gates

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NAACP Sees Education as Key to Boosting Black Men

Education is the key to breaking Black men and youths out of a vicious cycle of crime and unemployment, African-American leaders said last week at the close of the annual NAACP convention.

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Texas Higher Education Enrollment Topped 1.5 Million in 2010

Texas is in line to meet the 2015 higher education enrollment goal of 1.65 million students, but the state must work harder to encourage minorities to pursue advanced degrees, according to the state’s higher education commissioner.

Raymund Paredes

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Ohio Educator Frank Hale Dies

Longtime educator and civil rights activist Dr. Frank W. Hale Jr., vice president emeritus at Ohio State University, died Wednesday at 84, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

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Making the Work of Black Scientists Accessible to the Public

With compelling video interviews of the nation’s top African-American scientists telling their life stories, the ScienceMakers website helps further the mission of increasing African-Americans, women, and other minorities in STEM professions.

Julieanna Richardson

African-American

Wealth Gap Widens Between Whites, Minorities

The wealth gaps between Whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century.

UDC to Study Monument Proposal for African-American Military Hero

The University of the District of Columbia is studying the cost of erecting a monument to honor Col. Charles Young — a pioneering Black military leader who supporters say is often overlooked.

Col. Charles Young

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Tavis Smiley and Cornel West Take Obama Critique on the Road

Black activists Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are planning a 15-city “Poverty Tour” to bring attention to the needy and to what they say are the failings of President Barack Obama.

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Models of Success at Minority-serving Institutions

University of Wisconsin and University of Pennsylvania are identifying best practices for retention at nine minority-serving institutions.

Marybeth Gasman

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N.J. Governor Chris Christie, Education Reformer Geoffrey Canada Announce Partnership

Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Children’s Zone engages community partners to develop a holistic, or comprehensive, approach to K-12 education that emphasizes college graduation as the students’ long-term goal.

Geoffrey Canada

Faculty & Staff

Talented Young Black Scholars Find an Open Path to Ivy League

With the influx of a new generation of highly trained Black Ph.D.s, Ivy League institutions are aggressively courting these young scholars fresh out of graduate school.

Keisha-Khan Perry

Study Looks at School Discipline in Texas

Almost 60 percent of Texas public school students received punishments ranging from expulsion to in-school suspensions at least once between seventh and 12th grades, according to a new Texas A&M study.

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