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School Vouchers: A Wedge Issue for African Americans?
School Vouchers: A Wedge Issue for African Americans?Thanks to President George W. Bush’s early morning arm-twisting and a blatant Republican disregard for Congressional rules (with a 15-minute vote taking more than three hours while Republican leadership pressured dissenting members of Congress to change their vote) we have a new Medicare system that may either cut […]
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Counting on Black
Counting on BlackHistorically Black colleges offer symbolic venue for candidates wanting to connect with Black votersBy Ronald RoachThe push for a connection between Black American voters and the campaigns of Democratic Party presidential candidates reached a symbolic high in September when the contenders squared off in a nationally televised debate on the campus of Morgan […]
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Afro-Latin Week Celebrates African Heritage of South America
Afro-Latin Week Celebrates African Heritage of South AmericaATLANTAAccording to U.S. Census reports, there are 38.8 million Hispanics now living in the United States as compared to 38.3 million Blacks or African Americans. However, the federal government’s claim that Hispanics have passed Blacks as the largest “minority” ethnic group confuses language and ethnicity. The claim implies […]
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Book on British Movement to End Slavery Wins Frederick Douglass Prize
Book on British Movement to End Slavery Wins Frederick Douglass PrizeNEW YORKA major study on the British movement to end slavery is the 2003 first prize winner of the annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition. Second prize will go to an […]
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Public School Reform Would Close Racial Gap in Education, Authors Say
Public School Reform Would Close Racial Gap in Education, Authors SayWASHINGTONThe racial gap in learning is largely due to culture and can be narrowed by restructuring the educational system so that it rewards the best and most in-demand teachers for working in the inner cities, argue two scholars in a new book.Drs. Stephan and Abigail […]
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A Bonanza of Black Journals
A Bonanza of Black JournalsHere is a brief listing of Black journals. Most feature a mixture of literature and political and social commentary — though some, like Transitions, concentrate on essays. If you don’t see an old favorite of yours — like, for example, Mosaic — it may be because the publication is temporarily on […]
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Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora
Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora• Affiliated with North Carolina State University• Dr. Joyce Pettis, ed.When Dr. Joyce Pettis took up the reins at Obsidian III in 2002, she was well aware that she was walking along a path trod by literary giants.There was Alvin Aubert, the poet pioneer — one of the first African American […]
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WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas
WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas•Published by the Gwendolyn Brooks  Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing, Chicago State University• Quraysh Ali Lansana, faculty adviser• Audrey Tolliver, senior editorWhen reached by telephone in his offices at Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Center, Quraysh Ali Lansana, the poet and assistant professor of English who directs the […]
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Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire
Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire• Edited and published by the Africana Studies Program and the Institute of African American Studies at New York University• Dr. Manthia Diawara, founder and editor in chief “I’m a child of African independence,” says Dr. Manthia Diawara, the Mali-born filmmaker and critic who’s also a professor of film and Africana studies at New […]
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Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters
Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters     • Published by the Johns Hopkins        University PressDown in College Station, Texas, the Callaloo offices are gearing up for another whirlwind of activity. For an upcoming issue on the arts and history of the Afro-Mestizos of Veracruz, Dr. Charles Rowell has an international launch planned: The […]
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Writers’ Retreat
Writers’ RetreatDespite the proliferation of Black authors and titles in today’s marketplace, many look to literary journals to carry on the torch for the written wordBy Kendra HamiltonImagine the African American writer as an endangered species. Impossible, you might say — not with Oprah’s smile selling magazines and books by the millions; not with bookstore […]
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Fielding’s Media Psychology Program Welcomes Its First Class
Fielding’s Media Psychology Program Welcomes Its First ClassSANTA BARBARA, Calif.Fielding Graduate Institute welcomed its first class of students this fall in the school’s newly created Ph.D. program in Media Psychology. The students are all mid-career professionals from organizations as different as Disney, Gateway Computers and Stanford Medical Center. They will continue to work in their […]
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