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Najuma Fletcher and Nicola Martial have travelled far since their days as aspiring young female athletes in Guyana, South America. Today both are looking forward to graduating — Fletcher with a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Martial with a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln And both look forward to the summer Olympic games in Atlanta.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Mfume: ‘it’s all right now to come back home.’ – Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president, views on role of youth in civil rights struggles

Winston-salem, NC The nation’s Colleges will be the incubators for new soldiers in America’s civil rights struggle, Kweisi Mfume told a group of students.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Embattled Jackson State President seeks promised funds for deficit – James Lyons, Sr – Recruitment & Retention

JACKSON, MS Beleaugered Jackson State University President James Lyons Sr. has asked the state legislature to erase a third of a university deficit that could exceed $3 million.

June 15, 2007

Student-athletes at work: NCAA work rule will be ‘difficult to monitor.’ – National Collegiate Athletic Association

In a surprise development at its annual convention, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved new legislation allowing athletes to work part-time jobs during the school year.

June 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

UDC cuts out athletics – The University of the District of Columbia

WASHINGTON, D.C. The University of the District of Columbia will eliminate its inter-collegiate athletics program in order to save money in its attempt to stay afloat despite drastic cuts in its budget.

June 15, 2007

Presidential transitions – the appointment of the president of Smith College

Higher education rode a roller coaster in 1995, a year of actions that provoked rage and hope, sorrow and joy.

June 15, 2007

Athletes, outcasts and partyers – films about African Americans in higher education

Films about African Americans in higher education are a relatively new phenomenon but they, like other films about Blacks, still frequently resort to stereotypes.

June 15, 2007

Former Purdue Star Jannon Lampley Named Women’s Basketball Coach at St. Joseph’s College

RENSSELAER Ind. Jannon Lampley, former Big Ten player of the year at Purdue, was named women’s basketball coach Friday at St. Joseph’s College.

June 14, 2007

Chasing More Than Just Wins

Black women coaches hope to inspire the next generation of athletes.

June 13, 2007

Black Women Coaches Hope to Inspire the Next Generation

Recent appointments of Black women coaches – like that of Cochese Washington at Penn State – raise the profile of African American women in Division I athletics, and provide hope and inspiration to the next generation.

June 13, 2007

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Shalala, Franklin Receive Images in Excellence Award from Black Coaches Association

University of Miami President Donna Shalala and Bernard Franklin, the NCAA’s senior vice president for governance, membership, education, and research, were each awarded Black Coaches Association 2007 Images in Excellence award during the organization’s annual meeting last week.

June 4, 2007

Grants & Gifts

The City College of New York has received a four-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue the college’s participation in the Institute of General Medical Sciences’ SCORE program. The program provides research funds for faculty development at minority-serving institutions. A collaborative effort between the City College of San Francisco and […]

May 30, 2007

The Prevalence of Black Females In College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion

If you had a chance to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship in April, you probably noticed that 80 percent of the starters for Rutgers and Tennessee were non-White.

May 30, 2007

Prosecutors File No Charges in Case of Calif. College Alleged Gang Rape

SAN JOSE, Calif. Santa Clara County prosecutors announced Monday they have declined to file charges in the case of the alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl by De Anza College baseball players at a party in March.

May 22, 2007

Jumping Into The Science Of Sports

Dr. Chang Kee Jung, a State University of New York-Stony Brook professor, is one of the country’s leading astro-particle physicists.

May 16, 2007

Sparks Fly at Morehouse Panel on Black Athletes

ATLANTA Negative images of law-breaking Black athletes stem from societal issues, not something inherent to the athletes, according to a star-studded panel on the Black athlete at Morehouse College Monday.

May 8, 2007

Life After Imus

The debate has already begun over whether hip-hop culture perpetuates the denigration of Black women.

May 2, 2007

A Revealing Series of Events

I didn’t think the Rutgers University women’s basketball team needed to go public. After all, why dignify nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus’s remark with a response? But I’m so glad they did, because they humanized this news event and presented an image that was in stark contrast to his “nappy-headed hos” comment.

May 2, 2007