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Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the worldâs cities are full of anti-war protesters â as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus âgreensâ and much more â but some observers [âŚ]
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Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the worldâs cities are full of anti-war protesters â as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus âgreensâ and much more â but some observers [âŚ]
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UNC-Chapel Hill Conference Explores Roots and Experience Of Black Canadians
UNC-Chapel Hill Conference Explores Roots and Experience Of Black Canadians CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Some folks are under the misperception that Canadaâs Black population consists largely of descendents of escaped African American slaves, that Canada never had slavery, and that the country is devoid of racism. Not so, said experts at a recent conference here aimed to [âŚ]
Students
Paris Noir
Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the âCity of LightsâBy Robert J. Vickers Over the course of American history, Paris has stood out as an intriguing place for African Americans. Josephine Baker renounced American racism along with her citizenship in favor of the more accepting French capital and â [âŚ]
Students
UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime
UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her [âŚ]
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Challenging the Future of Black Studies
Challenging the Future of Black StudiesScholars debate and discover âprofound generation gapâ at conferenceBy Kendra Hamilton NEW YORKWhile hundreds of Black scholars from across the nation were making plans to converge on New York City last month for what promised to be one of the landmark conferences of the year â âThe State of Black [âŚ]
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Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts
Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Harvard Universityâs Black Students Association unveiled its long-awaited âThe Black Guide to Life at Harvardâ last month during an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Afro-American Studies department. The 322-page guide is the first comprehensive publication on resources for Black students, containing a history of Blacks [âŚ]
Faculty & Staff
The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life
The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life In âMastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing,â senior writer Ronald Roach examines the nexus between information technology and scientific discovery. For the nationâs colleges and universities to have truly competitive information technology infrastructures, campus leaders will have to adopt innovative technologies in their campus networks that [âŚ]
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Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions
Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions * From âClosing the Gap?: Texas College Enrollments Before and After Affirmative ActionâRates of admission for minority applicants at Texasâ flagship institutions fell sharply after the ban on affirmative action. For African Americans applying to Texas A&M University, the probability of admission fell from 74.9 [âŚ]
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual
W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual âWell, you can say Marx, and then you can say Freud, but then youâd better say Du Bois really quickly in the triumvirate of seminal minds,â says John Edgar Wideman, novelist, essayist and distinguished professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.Dr. David Levering Lewis, the Martin Luther King [âŚ]
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A Timeless Legacy
A Timeless Legacy Celebrating 100 years of W.E.B. Du Boisâ The Souls of Black FolkBY KENDRA HAMILTON Hereâs a little known fact worth savoring on the centennial of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk: Its author, the restlessly brilliant and relentlessly controversial Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was at Tuskegee University when [âŚ]
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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation Marks Progress
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation Marks ProgressWASHINGTON The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation Inc. recently announced the progress of the memorial slated to be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.âBuilding a memorial on the National Mall is a complicated process and involves many parties,â says LeRoy Lowery III, executive [âŚ]
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