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Black History Month 2009

New titles on African-American experiences offer remarkable depth and range.

BATTLE OF THE WILLS

In Georgia, the budget crunch has prompted one state senator to propose closing some public colleges, but not the ones you think.

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Most of Little Rock 9 Headed to Inauguration

President-elect Barack Obama has said the Little Rock Nine’s courage in desegregating an Arkansas public school helped make the opportunities in his life possible.

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Battle of Wills, Part 2

Seth Harp found an unlikely ally in his quest to close two Georgia colleges, but he still faces an uphill fight.

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Not Just Black and White

As a teenager, Dr. Anne Cheng held in awe the novel Invisible Man.

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The Evolution of Barack Obama

With President-elect Barack Obama set to take the oath of office, it’s worth noting how Black Issues in Higher Education, the predecessor to Diverse, has covered him over the years.

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An Unassuming College Professor

Someone unfamiliar with his work, accolades or age could easily mistake M.K. Asante, Jr. for a college student instead of a university professor. Asante’s mesh brim hat, a constant fixture in his attire, bright smile and casual demeanor radiate youth while his knowledge of film, literature and African-American history could rival that of scholars twice his age.

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Beating the At-risk Odds

Family approach credited as key to Silas Craft Collegians Program’s success.

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Tracking the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Via the Web

What took shape in the 1970s as data collections on the trans-Atlantic slave trade stored on mainframe computers has made its way to a world-wide audience as an interactive and searchable database on the Internet.

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Diverse Calendar

Dec. 27-30 Modern Language Association 124th Annual Convention Hilton San Francisco San Francisco Marriott Fairmont San Francisco San Francisco Web: www.mla.org Jan. 4-7 International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement 22nd Annual World Congress Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina Vancouver, BC, Canada Web: www.icsei2009.org Jan. 4-7 National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship 6th Annual Conference […]

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Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint on The Obama Effect

The psychological boost on African-Americans generated by the election of the nation’s first Black president may be tempered by hard economic times ahead, says Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

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Democrats Gain in Dixie, but Racial Divide Remains

Barack Obama hardly marched across the South like General William T. Sherman, who accepted the surrender of the Conferedate armies in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida in 1865. But he certainly made some inroads.

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