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Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, Genres

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, GenresScience fiction, romance share space with history and hip-hop Dr. Wilfred D. Samuels never expected to fall — and in a big way — for science fiction as a literary genre. In actuality, he’s fallen for a group of African American sci-fi, fantasy and horror writers who are using […]

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Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive

Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive ATLANTAEmory University has received a gift to its library collections that greatly increases teaching and research opportunities in 20th-century African American studies. A portion of the Hatch/Billops Collection in New York — an extraordinary collection assembled during the past 35 years — has been given to […]

Five-Year Plan Targets Minority-Serving Colleges

Five-Year Plan Targets Minority-Serving CollegesBy Charles Dervarics A five-year management plan adopted by the U.S. Department of Education calls for strengthening Black colleges, Hispanic-serving institutions and tribal colleges. As one of several objectives in higher education, the Strategic Plan 2002-2007 seeks improvements for minority-serving institutions, calling them essential in “closing the gap between low-income and […]

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Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, Genres

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, GenresScience fiction, romance share space with history and hip-hop Dr. Wilfred D. Samuels never expected to fall — and in a big way — for science fiction as a literary genre. In actuality, he’s fallen for a group of African American sci-fi, fantasy and horror writers who are using […]

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Center for Africana Studies Opens at Penn State

Native Americans

Black, Hispanic Admissions Up at University of California Law, Medical Schools

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Musician, Novelist, Filmmaker Among MacArthur Fellows

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Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race By Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAcademic officials and policy-makers from the United States and the European Commission convened the first two of three planned conferences last month aimed at solving problems of racial discrimination and xenophobia in Europe and the United States. Although organizers say the conferences grew largely out of a […]

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Studying War

Studying War “I ain’t gonna study, war no more, ain’t gonna study war no more…” This determined folk song’s refrain was an emotional rallying cry during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. Today, it is ironic that many of the key players in what seems to be a personal matter that […]

Faculty & Staff

Dual Dilemma

Dual DilemmaBlack faculty work to ensure access, while making the academy hospitable to minority faculty, students”Like most non-Blacks, I guess, I have, anyway, always thought that Afro-American Studies is a pseudo-discipline, invented by guilty White liberals as a way of keeping Black intellectuals out of trouble and giving them a shot at holding professorships at […]

In Memoriam: Education Advocate Dies

In Memoriam: Education Advocate DiesRep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii, senior Democrat on the House of Representatives’ higher education panel and a key figure in the creation of Title IX, died late last month of pneumonia. Mink, 74, was the ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness, which oversees federal higher education programs. First […]

HBCU Leaders Focus on Technology Gap

HBCU Leaders Focus on Technology Gap‘Sustained teamwork’ needed to eliminate disparities, one leader saysHistorically Black colleges and universities lag far behind traditionally White institutions in technology, college leaders told a House of Representatives panel in September.“The technology gap at many of our campuses is a visible reminder of the unresolved legacy of separate but equal […]

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