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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 […]
Latinx
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 […]
Latinx
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, […]
Native Americans
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, […]
African-American
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 […]
Leadership & Policy
Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SAT
Minority Test Takers Make Significant Gains on SATBut achievement gap between White, minority students persists By Cassie ChewWASHINGTONAmong the record 1.4 million college-bound students in the class of 2004 who took the SAT, another record number of these SAT takers, 37 percent, were minority students, the College Board said in its annual report of SAT […]
Leadership & Policy
Breaking Down the Walls
Breaking Down the WallsN o one was surprised when Dr. Marcus Cox’s Ph.D. in history from Northwestern led to job offers from Ohio State and Illinois State universities. But it came as quite a surprise to his friends when Cox passed on those schools to go to The Citadel — a small Southern military college […]
African-American
Events
SEPTEMBERSept. 20-22National College Access Network 8th Annual ConferenceBostonWeb: www.collegeaccess.org/NCAN/Sept. 22-25Furious Flower Conference“Furious Flower: Regenerating the Black Poetic Tradition”James Madison UniversityHarrisonburg, Va.Phone: (540) 568-2694E-mail: furiousflower.@jmu.eduWeb: www.jmu.edu/furiousflowerSept. 23-2520th Annual Symposium on African American Studies“African American Studies: Meeting the Challenge Today: Learning from the Past — Envisioning the Future”Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind.Phone: (765) 494-5680Web: www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/african-american/Sept. 24-272004 Patterson […]
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African-American
The African American Studies Minor
The African American Studies MinorThe African American studies minor at The Citadel consists of five courses or 15 credit hours. Introduction to African American studies is a required course. Students are also required to take two electives in core courses in African American literature, African American history and the modern civil rights movement. And the […]
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Students
Taking it to the NEXT LEVEL
Taking it to the NEXT LEVELBy Ronald RoachFew former college presidents can boast of a career as accomplished and varied as Dr. Michael L. Lomax. His résumé, which include tenure as a college professor, 12 years in political office as the Fulton County executive in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and the presidency of Dillard University […]
African-American
Miller Apologizes to Black Community for Rock ‘n’ Roll Promotion
Miller Apologizes to Black Community for Rock ‘n’ Roll PromotionMILWAUKEE Miller Brewing came under fire recently for its promotion commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Rock ‘n’ Roll. The promotion, which features Rolling Stone cover shots of Elvis Presley, Blondie and others on beer cans, had been criticized for its lack of diversity.The brewer has since […]
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