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UCLA Study: Growing Mismatch Between African Americans

UCLA Study: Growing Mismatch Between African AmericansAnd Job Locations Increases Racial Inequality LOS ANGELESA new study conducted by a UCLA researcher and published by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program indicates that the distance between African Americans and the location of employment opportunities has increased over the last several decades, exacerbating racial inequality in major […]

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Record Number of Students Apply to University of California Schools

Record Number of Students Apply to University of California SchoolsAmerican Indians only minority group to see applications fall in 2004BERKELEY, Calif. The number of students who want to get into the University of California topped 100,000 for the first time this year, including nearly 9,000 students seeking one of the 1,000 spots at the new […]

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American Students Launch 10-Week Study

American Students Launch 10-Week Study Of Cuba Under New U.S. RegulationsHAVANA When Veronica Sanchez’s parents found out she was going to Cuba for 10 weeks, they “freaked out” and worried she would become a communist, the 19-year-old Mexican-American student said. “My dad really has it in his head that I’m never going to go back […]

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Documenting Violence in the ‘Hood’

Documenting Violence in the ‘Hood’ Claflin University student receives coveted Sundance award for short filmBy Lelita CannonORANGEBURG, S.C.Eighteen-year-old Daniel Howard received the phone call of a lifetime in December. It was a delegate from the Sundance Film Festival. The representative told him that his film, “Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story,” which he directed […]

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Narratives of Freedom

Narratives of FreedomBefore His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights MartyrBy Ben GreenUniversity Press of Florida, 2005320 pp., $19.95 paperback ISBN: 081302837X Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached from his pulpit in Montgomery, before Rosa Parks’ famous bus ride, a man named Harry T. Moore toiled in Jim […]

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Africana.com Web Site Announces its Closure

Africana.com Web Site Announces its ClosureSTERLING, Va.Founded by Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Princeton University professor Dr. Anthony Appiah, the Africana.com news and feature Web site on African-American life and culture was to formally close at the end of January, according to the Web site. “After 6 years, Africana.com is shutting its […]

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The Niagara Movement’s Powerful Fruit — 100 Years of Protest

The Niagara Movement’s Powerful Fruit — 100 Years of ProtestBy Julianne MalveauxThe Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH) was founded 90 years ago on Sept. 9, 1915. It’s founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, author of the scathing masterpiece, The Miseducation of the Negro (1933), was also the founder of Negro […]

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Sharing Some of the Blame

Sharing Some of the BlameThis letter is a response to the critique offered by Dr. Gerald E. Matthews to Dr. Bill Cosby’s comments and remarks about low-income African Americans (see Black Issues, Dec. 30, 2004). I am not an African American of wealth, but I did emerge from a childhood of poverty to my present […]

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Vanishing Black College Students?

Vanishing Black College Students? A young woman at my church confided in me that she dreams of enlisting in the military. Because we were in church, I simply shuddered and held my tongue, but my face must have told her what I would have liked to say. We talked a few minutes and she shared […]

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MUSIC: Teresa L. Reed

MUSICMaking A Joyful NoiseTeresa L. ReedTitle: Associate Professor of Music Theory and Literature and Director, African American Studies Program, University of TulsaEducation: Ph.D., Music Theory, Indiana University; M.M., Music Theory, University of Tulsa; B.A., Music, Valparaiso UniversityAge: 40 Her friends, colleagues and even the critics agree: Dr. Teresa L. Reed is making a joyful noise […]

HISTORY: Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

HISTORYFrom Black Power to Hip-HopJeffrey O.G. OgbarTitle: Associate Professor of History andDirector, Institute for African American Studies, University of ConnecticutEducation: Ph.D., History, Indiana University; M.A., History, Indiana University; B.A., History, Morehouse CollegeAge: 35 While history for most conjures up images of places and experiences far removed, for Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, the field provides a […]

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Standout Scholars

Standout ScholarsYoung, gifted and black, scholars across the nation light pathways to the pursuit of academic excellenceIsolation, lack of adequate mentorship and vague, or not so vague, suggestions that the research topics African American scholars pursue are somehow not worthy of academic consideration are only a few of the horrors young scholars can encounter along […]

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