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Public School Reform Would Close Racial Gap in Education, Authors Say

Public School Reform Would Close Racial Gap in Education, Authors SayWASHINGTONThe racial gap in learning is largely due to culture and can be narrowed by restructuring the educational system so that it rewards the best and most in-demand teachers for working in the inner cities, argue two scholars in a new book.Drs. Stephan and Abigail […]

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A Bonanza of Black Journals

A Bonanza of Black JournalsHere is a brief listing of Black journals. Most feature a mixture of literature and political and social commentary — though some, like Transitions, concentrate on essays. If you don’t see an old favorite of yours — like, for example, Mosaic — it may be because the publication is temporarily on […]

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Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora

Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora• Affiliated with North Carolina State University• Dr. Joyce Pettis, ed.When Dr. Joyce Pettis took up the reins at Obsidian III in 2002, she was well aware that she was walking along a path trod by literary giants.There was Alvin Aubert, the poet pioneer — one of the first African American […]

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WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas

WarpLand: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas•Published by the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature and Creative Writing, Chicago State University• Quraysh Ali Lansana, faculty adviser• Audrey Tolliver, senior editorWhen reached by telephone in his offices at Chicago State University’s Gwendolyn Brooks Center, Quraysh Ali Lansana, the poet and assistant professor of English who directs the […]

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Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire

Black Renaissance/ Renaissance Noire• Edited and published by the Africana Studies Program and the Institute of African American Studies at New York University• Dr. Manthia Diawara, founder and editor in chief “I’m a child of African independence,” says Dr. Manthia Diawara, the Mali-born filmmaker and critic who’s also a professor of film and Africana studies at New […]

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Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters

Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters • Published by the Johns Hopkins University PressDown in College Station, Texas, the Callaloo offices are gearing up for another whirlwind of activity. For an upcoming issue on the arts and history of the Afro-Mestizos of Veracruz, Dr. Charles Rowell has an international launch planned: The […]

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Writers’ Retreat

Writers’ RetreatDespite the proliferation of Black authors and titles in today’s marketplace, many look to literary journals to carry on the torch for the written wordBy Kendra HamiltonImagine the African American writer as an endangered species. Impossible, you might say — not with Oprah’s smile selling magazines and books by the millions; not with bookstore […]

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Fielding’s Media Psychology Program Welcomes Its First Class

Fielding’s Media Psychology Program Welcomes Its First ClassSANTA BARBARA, Calif.Fielding Graduate Institute welcomed its first class of students this fall in the school’s newly created Ph.D. program in Media Psychology. The students are all mid-career professionals from organizations as different as Disney, Gateway Computers and Stanford Medical Center. They will continue to work in their […]

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UCLA Renames Center to Honor Ralph Bunche

UCLA Renames Center to Honor Ralph BuncheLOS ANGELESThe University of California Los Angeles honored one of its most distinguished alumni last month during a ceremony to rename its African American Studies center to the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.“We could think of no more worthy individual after whom to name the center,” […]

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Missing a Chapter

Missing a ChapterWhile we found your issue, “Harvard’s New Chapter in Black Studies” (see Black Issues, Oct. 9), to be informative, you failed to identify Michigan State University’s Ph.D. program in African American and African Studies (AAAS) on p.33 when listing African Studies programs. AAAS was established in February 2002 and welcomed its first class […]

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Revisiting Black History, Examining Future Paradigms

Revisiting Black History, Examining Future ParadigmsSoulstepping: african american step showsBy Dr. Elizabeth C. FineUniversity of Illinois Press, 2003, 208 pp., $24.95 cloth, ISBN 0-252-02475-3Soulstepping documents the history of stepping, which is defined as a complex performance that melds folk traditions with popular culture and involves synchronized percussive movement, singing, chanting and drama. The author traces […]

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Sick and Tired of Health Disparities

Sick and Tired of Health Disparities A few months ago, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days with an older sisterfriend, a retired teacher who fills her retired days with meetings, task forces and sorority work. I had always admired my friend for her spunk, her accomplishments and her standard of service. […]

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