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Black 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.

Black History Special: Students Mentored By Civil Rights Veterans Changed American History

In 1960, students attending colleges and universities in Greensboro, N.C., Nashville, and locations throughout the South staged sit-ins at store lunch counters and restaurants in protest of public segregation. Many of those who came under the influence of civil rights pioneers, James Lawson and Ella Baker, went on to become leaders in the civil rights movement.

student protests

Lastword – Black Greek Deathwatch

After the hand-wringing over a hazing death comes a period of reckless behavior leading to yet another death. Will we stop the cycle?

Walter Kimbrough

Judge Dismisses Suit Against AKA President and Sorority

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by eight members of the nation’s oldest black sorority, who accused the group’s president of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper compensation and spending sorority money on a wax statue of herself and other questionable purposes.

Barbara McKinzie, president of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority

Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13

Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.

A museum dedicated to the late Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson (pictured) opens on the Grambling State University campus on Feb. 13.

Faculty & Staff

Southern U. in Baton Rouge Nearing the ‘Point of Crisis’

Deep state budget cuts, forced by falling state revenue and a new focus on performance-based funding, is pushing Southern University of Baton Rouge (SUBR) to the brink of crisis, the school’s chancellor says.

Leadership & Policy

JSU President Defends Black College ‘Unity’ Plan

Jackson State University (JSU) President Dr. Ronald Mason has received a sharp rebuke from Black lawmakers and supporters of historically Black colleges and universities over his proposal to unite JSU with the state’s other two historically Black universities.

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U.S. Racial History Less Understood Among Post-Racial Generation, Scholars Say

After the election of President Barack Obama, some college students consider prejudice and racism as relics of American societal behavior.

Michelle Johnson

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Protesters Reflect on Success of Student Sit-ins

Fifty years ago today, four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store, bought a few items, then sat down at the “Whites only” lunch counter and sparked a wave of civil rights protest that changed America.

Greensboro Four statue

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Racial Threat Puts Ohio College on Alert, on Edge

An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over Black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.

Leadership & Policy

Minority Male Plight Demands Broad U.S. Action, College Board Says

A College Board report highlighting the “overwhelming barriers” U.S. minority males confront in becoming educated and productive citizens.

Minority males face overwhelming barriers to becoming productive citizens, report says.

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Scholars Speak Out on Haiti

In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Diverse interviews three scholars of Haitian descent who study the island nation and teach its history and culture on the college level.

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