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Virginia Tech Professor’s Books Challenge Appalachian Myths

Virginia Tech Professor’s Books Challenge Appalachian Myths BLACKSBURG, Va.According to conventional wisdom, residents of Appalachia had few slaves, and the slaves who did live in the region received better treatment than their counterparts in the Deep South. Virginia Tech sociologist Dr. Wilma Dunaway says much of this conventional wisdom is plain wrong. “We do a […]

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Researchers to Study Natchez’s Role In Underground Railroad

Researchers to Study Natchez’s Role In Underground Railroad NATCHEZ, Miss.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has enlisted researchers from an Alabama college to conduct a document search to determine what sites in Natchez were linked to the Underground Railroad. Such sites are likely “because (enslaved) people were coming from as far as northwest Alabama and […]

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Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action

Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action By Charles Dervarics Political fallout continues from the Bush administration’s recent stance on the University of Michigan affirmative action case, as groups representing African Americans and Hispanics strongly criticized the White House decision to oppose the university’s policy. The president “has decided that equalizing the field of […]

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New Black Cable Network Announced

New Black Cable Network AnnouncedBy Ronald Roach and Wire Reports PHILADELPHIAComcast Corp. and Radio One Inc. announced earlier this month an agreement to launch a new television network featuring entertainment, news, opinion and sports-related programming targeted primarily at Black viewers from 25 to 54 years of age. The network, which has not yet been named, […]

Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks

Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks WASHINGTONA visit to Howard University’s campus from members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. last month was worth a million bucks to the historically Black school in Washington, D.C. The national sorority presented university officials with a $1 million check during activities on the campus marking the […]

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UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census

UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census LOS ANGELESLatinos and African Americans in Los Angeles County account for a disproportionate number of people who were not counted in Census 2000, according to a new UCLA analysis. Los Angeles County neighborhoods with the highest undercount rates also had high levels of […]

Leadership & Policy

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia is failing in its goal to make recruiting minority students a priority, according to consultants who visited the campus and talked with faculty, staff, administrators and students. “It is seen as an important issue but not among the first five […]

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Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents

Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents By Charles Dervarics Civil rights organizations and groups representing Hispanics and African Americans are turning up the heat on opponents of the University of Michigan affirmative action case even before the case gets before the U.S. Supreme Court. Advocates went on the offensive in early […]

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The Many Faces of Bias

The Many Faces of BiasBy Julianne Malveaux If 2002 did nothing else, it provided those who teach African American studies with scores of “teachable moments” about race, class, gender, history and intersectionality. The year-end flap about Sen. Trent Lott’s hankering back to the good old days of segregation could easily take up hours of conversation, […]

Faculty & Staff

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]

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Penn State Joins Efforts To Research Era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Penn State Joins Efforts To Research Era of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade University Park, Pa.The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade — the forced migration of approximately 12 million people, and the death of many more in war and captivity, over the course of 400 years — changed the face of the world, creating the Western Hemisphere we know […]

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Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith

Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith By Dr. Dwight A. McBride I want to take this occasion to give institutionally marginal programs and departments a much-deserved moment of recognition. I specifically want to do so for African American studies programs and departments. Though African American scholars are not always synonymous with African American […]

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