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University of Illinois Unveils World’s Most Powerful MRI

University of Illinois Unveils World’s Most Powerful MRICHICAGOThe University of Illinois at Chicago has introduced the world’s most powerful magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine for human studies, capable of imaging not just the anatomy but the metabolism within the brain.This advanced technology brings in a new age of metabolic imaging that will help researchers understand […]

Is it Time to Disband Black Fraternities and Sororities?

Is it Time to Disband Black Fraternities and Sororities?A couple of weeks ago, one of my favorite former students — now an administrator at Fisk University — called to inquire how quickly I could get Fisk on my speaking schedule. He informed me that my fraternity brothers on the campus had become the latest victimizers […]

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A Year After Reburial of Slaves, Debate Over Memorial

A Year After Reburial of Slaves, Debate Over MemorialNEW YORK When more than 400 slaves were reburied last year at a site unearthed by construction workers in lower Manhattan, the occasion was marked by singing, dancing — and promises for an elaborate memorial. Today, the site is marked by only one small sign. While a […]

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Events

OCTOBER Oct. 14-16American Association of University Professors (AAUP)Fifth Annual Conference on Governance“Degrees of Quality”The Marriott DowntownMemphis, Tenn.Web: www.aaup.orgOct. 16The National Visionary Leadership Project2004 Intergenerational Summit on the State of Black AmericaLibrary of Congress, Coolidge AuditoriumWashington, D.C. Phone: 202-331-2700Toll-free: 1-888-680-6857 (NVLP)Oct. 27-31National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)2004 Conference Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board […]

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More Black Local Broadcast, Cable Channels Possible, Firm Reports

More Black Local Broadcast, Cable Channels Possible, Firm ReportsNEW YORKAccording to a recent story in Broadcasting and Cable online, a leading U.S. media buying firm has documented the financial viability of local TV channels targeted to the African American community as well as additional cable networks. Though African American audiences tune into Black Entertainment Television […]

Presidential Proposals

Presidential ProposalsCandidates Envision Ways to Promote Postsecondary EducationBy Crystal L. KeelsQuestions of military service and non-service, missing weapons of mass destruction, Iraq, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, the threat of further terrorist attacks and the unprecedented suggestion that U.S. elections may be postponed are topics that have characterized the 2004 presidential election campaign thus far. […]

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Coppin State Researchers Investigate Weather

Coppin State Researchers Investigate WeatherPatterns’ Influence on the Middle PassageBALTIMOREA team from Coppin State University is using images from space satellites to investigate how the patterns of winds and ocean currents may have influenced the forced migration of Africans to the Americas. The project began on June 1 and ran through Aug. 31.Coppin State University […]

Search Engines Essential to Internet, Study Finds

Search Engines Essential to Internet, Study FindsWASHINGTONSurvey data indicate that search engines have become an essential and popular way for people to find information online. A nationwide phone survey of 1,399 Internet users conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in late spring shows that 84 percent of online Americans have used search […]

Surging in the Southeast

Surging in the Southeast North Carolina HBCUs expected to play significant role in facilitating college access for the increasing Latino population in the region By Ronald Roach Given the surging growth in the U.S. Latino population in recent years, nowhere have those increases been occurring faster than in the southeast. North Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia, […]

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Tribal Leader Calls for Unity, Voter Participation to Native American Students

Tribal Leader Calls for Unity, Voter Participation to Native American StudentsLAWRENCE, Kan. After speaking at their graduation ceremony this spring, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs leader David Anderson returned to Haskell Indian Nations University recently to remind students to take control of their lives. As for students planning to party rather than study this semester? […]

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Report: Uncertain Future for African Americans Despite Past Gains

Report: Uncertain Future for African Americans Despite Past GainsWASHINGTONWhile important gains have been made during the past decade, African Americans still have a long way to go to achieve equality in America, according to a new report by UCLA professor Michael Stoll. While the 1960s through the 1980s were characterized with gains in civil rights, […]

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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Dedicated in CincinnatiCINCINNATIOhio Gov. Bob Taft, Sen. Mike DeWine, Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Congressman Rob Portman joined a broad range of leaders from the entertainment, academic, government and business communities who participated in the grand opening dedication of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center on Aug. 23. Aug. 23 […]

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