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Penn Study Links Church Attendance, Marriage Odds

Penn Study Links Church Attendance, Marriage OddsPHILADELPHIAA University of Pennsylvania study shows that frequent church attendance substantially increases the odds of marriage for urban women. Penn’s Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, CRRUCS, released the report, “Then Comes Marriage? Religion, Race, and Marriage in Urban America” last month. It is the first […]

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Recapturing the Good Things

Recapturing the Good ThingsThis is not the first time Black Issues has taken a close look at the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) over the years. But it has been our first close look since Dr. Frederick Humphries, former president of Florida A&M University, took over the reigns of the 30 […]

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Gangbusters: Parents Still Play Key Role In Saving Kids From the Streets

Gangbusters: Parents Still Play Key Role In Saving Kids From the StreetsStudy examines ethnic differences in the effect of parenting on gang involvement, delinquencyThere’s a strong message to be taken from Dr. Chanequa Walker-Barnes’ research, and it’s simply this: Parents are not powerless, particularly when it comes to saving their kids from street gangs.Indeed, the […]

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The ‘Rite’ Intervene

The ‘Rite’ InterveneLane Community College program helps African American students connect to their heritage, community and to collegeBy Chris CunninghamEUGENE, Ore.Given MTV’s powerful influence in shaping self-image, the value of helping African American youth develop a deep understanding of their roots can’t be overemphasized, says Greg Evans, coordinator of Lane Community College’s African American Rites […]

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UCLA Study Examines Minority Representation In Network Television

UCLA Study Examines Minority Representation In Network TelevisionLOS ANGELESDespite calls for more diversity on prime-time network television, African Americans continue to be overrepresented and concentrated in situation comedies while other ethnic groups remained underrepresented, according to a new UCLA study.African Americans and Anglo Americans represented 92 percent of all prime-time characters in the study, yet […]

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Aiming High

Aiming High”Providing Students the Tools to Excel” is the title of one of our feature stories, but it could be the title of both features, which detail programs that are preparing African American students for college. The Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program (DAPCEP) prepares students to take on math, science and engineering in hopes that […]

Leadership & Policy

Engaging in Academic Racial Profiling

Engaging in Academic Racial ProfilingSUNY Trustee Candace de Russy is quoted in Newsday (Feb. 4, 2002) as stating, “… most Black studies departments are flabby, feel-good programs that carry anti-American bias and do little to advance hard knowledge.” And she further asserts, “Black studies departments became therapeutic in nature, and the goal became consciousness raising […]

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Keeping Crow Alive

Keeping Crow AliveA Ferris State University museum aims to use the pain of racist and offensive material to educate and foster racial healing“There is still a debate about whether Black people should use this material in any way other than to destroy it, or whether they don’t belong in a museum or being resold by Black […]

Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface Incident

Syracuse Suspends Fraternity After Blackface IncidentSYRACUSE, N.Y.Syracuse University has placed the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity on interim suspension after one of its members went to a campus bar wearing blackface as part of a costume. The action followed a sit-in by about 65 students at the school’s administration building. They made 12 demands of Chancellor […]

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Dr. Cornel West, in His Own Words

Dr. Cornel West, in His Own WordsBefore giving the keynote address at the conference “The State of the African American Professoriate,” held at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J., Dr. Cornel West spoke with reporters, primarily about the circumstances surrounding his much-publicized departure from Harvard University.A lot of people may feel, given your recent experience at […]

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The State of the African American Professoriate

The State of the African American ProfessoriateCornel West says Black intellectuals have unique role to play in the academy Mahwah, N.J.When Dr. Cornel West stepped up to the microphone recently at Ramapo College of New Jersey in his trademark three-piece black suit, the excitement in the air was electric. West had announced just six days […]

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A Second Calling

A Second CallingDr. Johnnetta Cole to lead all-female Bennett CollegeBy Allison ForemanGREENSBORO, N.C.Troubled Bennett College received some new hope last month when it named Dr. Johnnetta Cole as its new president. Cole, best known for her 10 years as president of Spelman College, will step into her new post July 15. She will replace Interim […]

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