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Documenting the Diaspora

Documenting the DiasporaHistorian couple investigate Central Africa’s place in world history, rooting Black studies in an international contextBy Ronald RoachTraveling to the Vatican to study documents once belonging to a 17th-century central African diplomat may seem an unlikely project for professors in an African American studies program. But for Drs. John Thornton and Linda Heywood, […]

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Gordon Parks Returns to Hero’s Welcome in Hometown

Gordon Parks Returns to Hero’s Welcome in HometownFORT SCOTT, Kan. The town that wouldn’t let Gordon Parks sit with the White people when he was growing up made it up to him in a big way with a four-day celebration of his life.In the downtown theater where, as a boy, Parks had to sit in […]

Is it Time to Disband Black Fraternities and Sororities?

Is it Time to Disband Black Fraternities and Sororities?A couple of weeks ago, one of my favorite former students — now an administrator at Fisk University — called to inquire how quickly I could get Fisk on my speaking schedule. He informed me that my fraternity brothers on the campus had become the latest victimizers […]

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A Year After Reburial of Slaves, Debate Over Memorial

A Year After Reburial of Slaves, Debate Over MemorialNEW YORK When more than 400 slaves were reburied last year at a site unearthed by construction workers in lower Manhattan, the occasion was marked by singing, dancing — and promises for an elaborate memorial. Today, the site is marked by only one small sign. While a […]

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Events

OCTOBER Oct. 14-16American Association of University Professors (AAUP)Fifth Annual Conference on Governance“Degrees of Quality”The Marriott DowntownMemphis, Tenn.Web: www.aaup.orgOct. 16The National Visionary Leadership Project2004 Intergenerational Summit on the State of Black AmericaLibrary of Congress, Coolidge AuditoriumWashington, D.C. Phone: 202-331-2700Toll-free: 1-888-680-6857 (NVLP)Oct. 27-31National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)2004 Conference Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board […]

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More Black Local Broadcast, Cable Channels Possible, Firm Reports

More Black Local Broadcast, Cable Channels Possible, Firm ReportsNEW YORKAccording to a recent story in Broadcasting and Cable online, a leading U.S. media buying firm has documented the financial viability of local TV channels targeted to the African American community as well as additional cable networks. Though African American audiences tune into Black Entertainment Television […]

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Coppin State Researchers Investigate Weather

Coppin State Researchers Investigate WeatherPatterns’ Influence on the Middle PassageBALTIMOREA team from Coppin State University is using images from space satellites to investigate how the patterns of winds and ocean currents may have influenced the forced migration of Africans to the Americas. The project began on June 1 and ran through Aug. 31.Coppin State University […]

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Report: Uncertain Future for African Americans Despite Past Gains

Report: Uncertain Future for African Americans Despite Past GainsWASHINGTONWhile important gains have been made during the past decade, African Americans still have a long way to go to achieve equality in America, according to a new report by UCLA professor Michael Stoll. While the 1960s through the 1980s were characterized with gains in civil rights, […]

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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Dedicated in CincinnatiCINCINNATIOhio Gov. Bob Taft, Sen. Mike DeWine, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Congressman Rob Portman joined a broad range of leaders from the entertainment, academic, government and business communities who participated in the grand opening dedication of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on Aug. 23. Aug. 23 […]

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Breaking Down the Walls

Breaking Down the WallsN o one was surprised when Dr. Marcus Cox’s Ph.D. in history from Northwestern led to job offers from Ohio State and Illinois State universities. But it came as quite a surprise to his friends when Cox passed on those schools to go to The Citadel — a small Southern military college […]

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Events

SEPTEMBERSept. 20-22National College Access Network 8th Annual ConferenceBostonWeb: www.collegeaccess.org/NCAN/Sept. 22-25Furious Flower Conference“Furious Flower: Regenerating the Black Poetic Tradition”James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, Va.Phone: (540) 568-2694E-mail: furiousflower.@jmu.eduWeb: www.jmu.edu/furiousflowerSept. 23-2520th Annual Symposium on African American Studies“African American Studies: Meeting the Challenge Today: Learning from the Past — Envisioning the Future”Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind.Phone: (765) 494-5680Web: www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/african-american/Sept. 24-272004 Patterson […]

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The African American Studies Minor

The African American Studies MinorThe African American studies minor at The Citadel consists of five courses or 15 credit hours. Introduction to African American studies is a required course. Students are also required to take two electives in core courses in African American literature, African American history and the modern civil rights movement. And the […]

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