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Use of Indian Mascots Coming to an End For College Teams

The debate over the use of American Indian imagery in college sports is coming to a head as the National Collegiate Athletic Association…

Operation Black Male

The media and scholarly literature are replete with countless reminders of the negative plight of…

African-American

Looking for a Cut Card

When a million immigrants flooded the streets of Los Angeles, and a quarter as many thronged into the customary protest space…

African-American

Howard University Trio Repeats Skins Competition Victory

Repeating their winning ways for a second consecutive year, three Howard University seniors took top honors…

Luminaries Honor Toni Morrison Before Retirement

A party for author Toni Morrison drew stars such as former President Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman, as well as officials and students from Princeton University, where the author has taught for 17 years before announcing her retirement this spring.

African-American

Vanderbilt Lures Black Literary Scholars

Vanderbilt University is on a mission to transform its literary studies program, and hopes to use an interdisciplinary approach to make that happen. To achieve that end, the university is adding five leading Black literary scholars, including Drs. Houston A. Baker and Hortense Spillers, to its English department.

African-American

Oxford University Press Unveils African-American Virtual Library

Students, scholars, teachers and librarians now have instant access to more than 30 volumes of reference works on the African-American experience — all on one new online resource.

Faculty & Staff

Auditor: University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Diversity Is ‘Worst’ He’s Seen

The University of Missouri-Kansas City has a serious problem with its racial climate and a serious lack of diversity in its faculty…

African-American

What Gives With The Covenant With Black America?

Not only was the book nowhere to be found at a major bookstore in New Orleans — which has long carried a “Chocolate City” designation — but the clerk had never even heard of it….

Intellectual Expansion Through International Learning

I can remember seeing a large paper map of the world in grade school. It showed the United States as a large body of land that seemed to…

New Mexico State Hopes to Draw Students from Minority-Serving Institutions

New Mexico State University regents, seeking to boost enrollment, have approved three programs involving out-of-state tuition waivers — including a pilot project to analyze the elimination of nonresident tuition.

Native Americans

Yale Secret Society May Have Stolen Apache Leader Skull, Says Researcher

A Yale University historian has uncovered a 1918 letter that seems to lend validity to the lore that Yale University’s ultra-secret Skull and Bones society swiped the skull of American Indian leader Geronimo.

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