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Students, Alumni Lament the Closing

Dozens of current and former students of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs …

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NAACP Retraces History at Harpers Ferry

There was an air of serenity and purpose as a vintage train unloaded more than 125 passengers in Harpers Ferry…

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New Black Studies Program To Launch This Fall Is Latest To Offer Doctorate

After years of planning, Northwestern University is launching its doctoral program in African-American studies next month, making it only the seventh American university to offer a doctorate in the academic discipline.

Black Colleges Diversifying By Recruiting More Hispanics

ATLANTA Squeezed by stiff competition for their traditional students, historically Black colleges are making a push to recruit Hispanics.

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Students, Alumni Lament the Closing of Columbia’s African Studies Institute

Dozens of current and former students of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) are expressing outrage over a decision by the Ivy League institution to temporarily shut down its Institute of African Studies.

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Project Aims To Identify Blacks Who Fought In U.S. Revolutionary War

Thousands of Black men fought in George Washington’s army during the Revolutionary War, or American War of Independence, yet their contributions rarely appear in modern history books.

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Cosby, Scholars and Youth Seek Answers to the Problems of Black Men

A forum held yesterday in Washington, D.C. sought solutions to problems faced by Black men from a diverse panel that included Dr. Bill Cosby, former gang members working against gang violence, educators, scholars and two Black men who graduated at the top of their high school class.

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Civil Rights Group President Pushes Self-Reliance

Black Americans should end “victim-like thinking” and seize opportunities to help close gaps between the nation’s rich and poor, NAACP President Bruce S. Gordon said Monday.

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Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers

In this city, now unfortunately infamous for an elite university’s lacrosse team party that may have gotten out of hand…

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SUNO Works to Restore its Collection of African Art

Even after fetid floodwater receded from the Southern University at New Orleans’ campus…

Emory Brings Slave Trade

Emory University scholars were recently awarded grants to make accessible and free on the Internet a mammoth …

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Perspectives: A View of the ‘N-Word’ from Sociolinguistics

During his hate crime trial, a White defendant said he used the N-word to “greet” a Black man, and not as a racial slur. He would later beat the man with a bat. Dr. Arthur K. Spears, an expert in sociolinguistics, says some words have complex histories and patterns of use.

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