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Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway Computers

Hispanic Association Teams Up With Gateway ComputersBy Ronald Roach SAN ANTONIO The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) recently teamed up with computer manufacturer Gateway Inc. to provide a discounted PC and rebate program to HACU’s 300 member institutions. HACU member institutions enroll more than 1 million of the 1.5 million Hispanics in higher […]

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual

W.E.B. Du Bois: A Towering Intellectual “Well, you can say Marx, and then you can say Freud, but then you’d better say Du Bois really quickly in the triumvirate of seminal minds,” says John Edgar Wideman, novelist, essayist and distinguished professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.Dr. David Levering Lewis, the Martin Luther King […]

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A Timeless Legacy

A Timeless Legacy Celebrating 100 years of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black FolkBY KENDRA HAMILTON Here’s a little known fact worth savoring on the centennial of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk: Its author, the restlessly brilliant and relentlessly controversial Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was at Tuskegee University when […]

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation Marks Progress

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation Marks ProgressWASHINGTON The Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation Inc. recently announced the progress of the memorial slated to be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.“Building a memorial on the National Mall is a complicated process and involves many parties,” says LeRoy Lowery III, executive […]

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Virginia Tech Professor’s Books Challenge Appalachian Myths

Virginia Tech Professor’s Books Challenge Appalachian Myths BLACKSBURG, Va.According to conventional wisdom, residents of Appalachia had few slaves, and the slaves who did live in the region received better treatment than their counterparts in the Deep South. Virginia Tech sociologist Dr. Wilma Dunaway says much of this conventional wisdom is plain wrong. “We do a […]

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Researchers to Study Natchez’s Role In Underground Railroad

Researchers to Study Natchez’s Role In Underground Railroad NATCHEZ, Miss.The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has enlisted researchers from an Alabama college to conduct a document search to determine what sites in Natchez were linked to the Underground Railroad. Such sites are likely “because (enslaved) people were coming from as far as northwest Alabama and […]

Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts

Budget Impasse Continues With New Threat of Cuts By Charles Dervarics The four-month stalemate on a 2003 federal education budget could leave many higher education programs at risk of across-the-board budget cuts. Many programs would face an immediate 2.9 percent across-the-board spending cut if a plan from Senate Republican leaders becomes law. That’s because of […]

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Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action

Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action By Charles Dervarics Political fallout continues from the Bush administration’s recent stance on the University of Michigan affirmative action case, as groups representing African Americans and Hispanics strongly criticized the White House decision to oppose the university’s policy. The president “has decided that equalizing the field of […]

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New Black Cable Network Announced

New Black Cable Network AnnouncedBy Ronald Roach and Wire Reports PHILADELPHIAComcast Corp. and Radio One Inc. announced earlier this month an agreement to launch a new television network featuring entertainment, news, opinion and sports-related programming targeted primarily at Black viewers from 25 to 54 years of age. The network, which has not yet been named, […]

Hispanic, Higher Education Groups Urge Bush Support of Affirmative Action

Hispanic, Higher Education Groups Urge Bush Support of Affirmative Action WASHINGTONHispanic and higher education leaders called on President George W. Bush earlier this month to demonstrate his administration’s support of the affirmative action policies currently under review by the U.S. Supreme Court. Anticipating what will be a landmark ruling on affirmative action, the leaders urged […]

Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks

Sorority’s Gift to Howard Worth a Million Bucks WASHINGTONA visit to Howard University’s campus from members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. last month was worth a million bucks to the historically Black school in Washington, D.C. The national sorority presented university officials with a $1 million check during activities on the campus marking the […]

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UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census

UCLA Report Finds Latinos, Blacks Most Likely To be Missed by Census LOS ANGELESLatinos and African Americans in Los Angeles County account for a disproportionate number of people who were not counted in Census 2000, according to a new UCLA analysis. Los Angeles County neighborhoods with the highest undercount rates also had high levels of […]

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