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Dos culturas, one pedagogy: teaching history from black and Hispanic perspectives – efforts to raise ethnic identity amongst the Mexican and African Americans in Texas – Cover Story

Teaching History From Black and Hispanic Perspectives.

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American culture’s African roots

A professor of dance at Temple University, Brenda Dixon Gottschild draws upon her expertise in that discipline as a springboard to explore a multifaceted phenomenon: the substantial African and African American intertwining with “dominant” (read white) American culture.

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Ten myths, half-truths and misunderstandings about Black history

Black history may have seemed “lost, stolen or strayed” at one time, but since then much of the African American past has been rediscovered and reanalyzed.

Washington update

22 Black Colleges Risk Losing Student Loan Eligibility Status.

Leadership & Policy

Being presidential in dixie – African-Americans as presidents at traditionally white colleges

Black Academics Finding Fewer Barriers At Traditionally White Colleges.

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Dorothy Porter Wesley: preserver of Black history – Afro-American librarian

The extraordinary career of Dorothy Porter Wesley spanned sixty-five years, from her appointment in 1930 as librarian at Howard University’s nascent Moorland Foundation, a Library of Negro Life, until her death on December 17, 1995. Through out this period she remained the quintessential librarian — a collector and dispenser of knowledge. She was an elder in the community of scholars who had experienced the continuum that is history and was a vast reservoir of wisdom, which she imparted to successive generations of students of Black history and culture.

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African Americans in Hollywood: A black-on-black shame

It’s Friday night in Chicago. Ice and snow blanket the surrounding landscape. Chicago’s frigid winds reinforces its nickname “Windy City.” But despite the sub-zero winds, a long line of shivering Chicagoans fight off the bone chilling cold and huddle tightly together, anticipating the first showing of the movie “Jason’s Lyric.” A voice bellows from behind the ticket window, announcing the 9:30 p.m. show is sold out. The next Showing is scheduled for 10:45 p.m. But ignoring the cold, not a single person moves. With such loyalty from African-American filmgoers, the question begs asking: “Why do so many Black filmmakers in Hollywood seem to take this level of dedication for granted?”

Athletes, outcasts and partyers – films about African Americans in higher education

Films about African Americans in higher education are a relatively new phenomenon but they, like other films about Blacks, still frequently resort to stereotypes.

An interview with Tim Reid – Interview

When veteran actor Tim Reid got sick and tired of being sick and tired of the negative images of African Americans he saw on the silver screen, he decided to go behind the camera and produce “positive feature films” for the African-American community.

Efforts Underway To Thwart Controversial Upward Bound Changes

Tucked into a U.S. House of Representatives higher education bill this week is a plan to scuttle a controversial evaluation of the Upward Bound program that would require grantees to enroll twice as many students as necessary and then provide no services to some of the youth as part of a research experiment.

Chasing More Than Just Wins

Black women coaches hope to inspire the next generation of athletes.

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Call Me Mister: South Carolina Program Trains Black Men to Become Schoolteachers and Role Models

Now seven years old, the Call Me Mister program has placed 20 Black male teachers in South Carolina schools. So how are they doing?

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