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Native Americans

Photo Essay: African-Americans and American Indians, A Shared History

On April 13, 1878, an unprecedented event in American Indian education began in Virginia at the Hampton Institute

Leadership & Policy

Florida State University Launches Seminole History Class In Effort To Keep Mascot

TALLAHASSEE Fla. Florida State University student Daniel Lee learned in fourth grade most of what he knew about the Seminole Indians, namesakes of his school’s athletic teams. It wasn’t much.

Building Named After Civil War Hero With Possible KKK Connections Draws Controversy

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. After 205 members of the Middle Tennessee State University community signed a petition to change the name of the school’s Forrest Hall, the Student Government Association agreed.

La Raza Program Seeks To Boost Hispanic College Student Retention

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Jafet Carrasco doesn’t know anyone who has been to college besides his teachers. He hears people talk about credit hours, but he’s not sure what they are. And he knows college costs money, but not how much.

African-American

Still Dealing AT Duke

Dr. Karla Holloway, the William R. Kenan Professor of English at Duke University

African-American

Scholars: Slavery’s Legacy Present in Current Policies, Social Customs

Several hundred people spent a day and a half recently at Brandeis University discussing a subject that most people generally avoid: slavery…

Leadership & Policy

ACE Report Cites Enrollment Gains, Retention Problems

The college enrollment of Hispanic students jumped nearly 70 percent between 1993-2003…

African-American

Brown University Applauded for Examination of Its Ties to Slavery

A Brown University committee investigating the institution’s ties to slavery has recommended the school atone for its past by creating a slave trade memorial…

Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity

Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.

Black Students Issue New Deadline To Indiana-Purdue Over Inequity Claims

INDIANAPOLIS Black students at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis have issued a new deadline for the university administration to answer requests for a campus center for them, an African-American studies program and $78,000 to Black organizations.

Ohio State Students Protest Closing of Black Studies Library

COLUMBUS, Ohio A student group has created an online petition protesting the closure of two Ohio State University campus libraries: the Black studies library and the women’s studies library.

Native Americans

A Matter of Survival

To the average ear, the words and sounds of Arapaho are from another world…

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