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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, […]
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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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
Students
What’s at Stake for UVa?
What’s at Stake for UVa?University president weighs in on the campus’s current racial climate and ongoing efforts to strengthen its multicultural milieu.By Kendra Hamilton The following Q&A session with the University of Virginia’s president, Dr. John T. Casteen, follows news reports that the venerable state school, which appeared to have forged a bright multicultural future […]
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The Grooming Of a Public Intellectual
The Grooming Of a Public Intellectual Lawrence P. JacksonTitle: Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies, Emory University, AtlantaEducation: Ph.D., English and American literature, Stanford University; M.A., English, Ohio State University; B.A., English and American Studies, Wesleyan UniversityAge: 34Dr. Lawrence Jackson admits he has always had a “a sense of urgency” about his career, […]
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UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past
UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.University of Virginia officials say it is time for incoming students to learn about their school’s segregated past and how to be sensitive to classmates of all backgrounds. Administration officials say they became aware of the need to do something more about race on campus after students came […]
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