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African-American: Page 294
African-American
Women From Historic Student Civil Rights Group Tell Their Story
Through a new book published by the University of Illinois Press, a diverse group of SNCC alumnae write themselves into the annals of the civil rights movement.
African-American
Fisk University Seeking Emergency Funds to Strengthen Re-accreditation Bid
Fisk University, facing increasing demands from its national accrediting body for more substantive documentation about its long-term financial viability, is beating the bushes for more funds.
Students
Black College Conference Takes on Public Criticism of HBCUs
This year, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund’s professional institute conference has provided practical ideas and strategies to address major challenges facing HBCUs.
African-American
Mississippi Highways to Honor Black Leaders, Military Heroes
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour has signed into law several new highway designations that will honor Black leaders and military heroes on highways throughout Mississippi.
Students
HBCU Sexual Assault Study Released
Often precipitated by the consumption of alcohol, attempted or completed sexual assaults directly affect about 14 percent of all female students on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities, but the attacks often go unreported due to shame, guilt or fear.
African-American
Census: More Blacks in South Moving to Suburbs
African-Americans in the South are shunning city life for the suburbs at the highest levels in decades, rapidly integrating large metropolitan areas that were historically divided between inner-city Blacks and suburban Whites.
Sports
Education Secretary Arne Duncan: Improve Division I Basketball Graduation Rates
As March Madness action was tipping off, Education Secretary Arne Duncan joined sports scholar Richard Lapchick and the NAACP president Ben Jealous to urge greater action on student-athlete graduation rates.
African-American
CIA Chief Leon Panetta Talks Diversity at Morehouse College
CIA Director Leon Panetta told students at the nation’s only all-male historically Black college that the agency needs a more diverse workforce that represents the world it engages.
Leadership & Policy
UMES President Thelma Thompson Announces Retirement
Her decision ends a nine-year tenure at the state’s lone 1890 land-grant university.
African-American
Academics Hail Public Online Posting of Historic Black Newspaper’s Archives
The posting online this winter of some 1 million newspaper articles published over the past century in the historic AFRO-American newspaper is being hailed by academics as a major development in expanding the general public’s grasp of African-American life.
African-American
La. Regents’ Consultant Suggests Options in SUNO/UNO Study
A consultant studying a controversial proposal to merge of Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans suggested two options Monday to rework an educational system deemed to be failing the city’s students.
Leadership & Policy
New Jindal Regents Appointee to Miss SUNO/UNO Board Meeting
Dr. Albert Sam II, a Black surgeon, was named to the Regents Board by Gov. Bobby Jindal after the governor pushed out a longtime White member of the board amid complaints about the lack of diversity on the panel.
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