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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 world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]

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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 world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]

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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 Canada’s 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 […]

Paris Noir

Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the “City of Lights”By 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 — […]

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 […]

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Challenging the Future of Black Studies

Challenging the Future of Black StudiesScholars debate and discover ‘profound generation gap’ 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 — “The State of Black […]

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Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts

Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Harvard University’s Black Students Association unveiled its long-awaited “The Black Guide to Life at Harvard” 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 […]

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The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life In “Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing,” senior writer Ronald Roach examines the nexus between information technology and scientific discovery. For the nation’s colleges and universities to have truly competitive information technology infrastructures, campus leaders will have to adopt innovative technologies in their campus networks that […]

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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 “Closing the Gap?: Texas College Enrollments Before and After Affirmative Action”Rates of admission for minority applicants at Texas’ 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 […]

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual “Well, you can say Marx, and then you can say Freud, but then you’d better say Du Bois really quickly in the triumvirate of seminal minds,” 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 […]

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A Timeless Legacy

A Timeless Legacy Celebrating 100 years of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black FolkBY KENDRA HAMILTON Here’s 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 […]

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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.“Building a memorial on the National Mall is a complicated process and involves many parties,” says LeRoy Lowery III, executive […]

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