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Native Americans

Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities

Congressional Alliance to Tackle Minority Health Disparities WASHINGTONIn collaboration with Newt Gingrich, the former U.S. Speaker of the House and founder of the Center for Health Transformation, and Peter Deutsch, former U.S. Representative from Florida, the National Minority Health Month Foundation (NMHMF) announced the formation of the Congressional Leadership Alliance to Eliminate Health Disparities. “This […]

February 23, 2005

African-American

American Students Launch 10-Week Study

American Students Launch 10-Week Study Of Cuba Under New U.S. RegulationsHAVANA When Veronica Sanchez’s parents found out she was going to Cuba for 10 weeks, they “freaked out” and worried she would become a communist, the 19-year-old Mexican-American student said. “My dad really has it in his head that I’m never going to go back […]

February 23, 2005

African-American

Documenting Violence in the ‘Hood’

Documenting Violence in the ‘Hood’ Claflin University student receives coveted Sundance award for short filmBy Lelita CannonORANGEBURG, S.C.Eighteen-year-old Daniel Howard received the phone call of a lifetime in December. It was a delegate from the Sundance Film Festival. The representative told him that his film, “Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story,” which he directed […]

February 23, 2005

Bush Education Budget Includes Cuts to College Access Programs

Bush Education Budget IncludesCuts to College Access ProgramsGEAR UP, Upward Bound among programs slated for eliminationBy Charles DervaricsPresident Bush wants to terminate a variety of politically popular college access initiatives as part of an austere 2006 education budget plan with increases for a few high priorities but cuts or level funding for dozens of other […]

February 23, 2005

African-American

Narratives of Freedom

Narratives of FreedomBefore His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights MartyrBy Ben GreenUniversity Press of Florida, 2005320 pp., $19.95 paperback ISBN: 081302837X Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached from his pulpit in Montgomery, before Rosa Parks’ famous bus ride, a man named Harry T. Moore toiled in Jim […]

February 9, 2005

African-American

Africana.com Web Site Announces its Closure

Africana.com Web Site Announces its ClosureSTERLING, Va.Founded by Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Princeton University professor Dr. Anthony Appiah, the Africana.com news and feature Web site on African-American life and culture was to formally close at the end of January, according to the Web site. “After 6 years, Africana.com is shutting its […]

February 9, 2005

African-American

The Niagara Movement’s Powerful Fruit — 100 Years of Protest

The Niagara Movement’s Powerful Fruit — 100 Years of ProtestBy Julianne MalveauxThe Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH) was founded 90 years ago on Sept. 9, 1915. It’s founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, author of the scathing masterpiece, The Miseducation of the Negro (1933), was also the founder of Negro […]

February 9, 2005

JPMorgan Apologizes for Predecessor Banks’ Acceptance of Slaves as Collateral

JPMorgan Apologizes for Predecessor Banks’ Acceptance of Slaves as CollateralNEW YORK JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the first company to acknowledge that two of its predecessor banks had specific links to the slave trade. The filing was meant to comply with a Chicago ordinance requiring such disclosures. The bank, the nation’s second largest, said in […]

February 9, 2005

Leadership & Policy

University of Oregon Opens American Indian Longhouse on Campus

University of Oregon Opens American Indian Longhouse on CampusEUGENE, Ore. Nearly 20 years after it was proposed, the University of Oregon has opened an American Indian longhouse, a community center traditional to many Native American peoples in the Pacific Northwest and around the country.The 3,000-square-foot building stands as a symbol of two generations of effort, […]

February 9, 2005

UCLA Professor Kenny Burrell Among Seven

UCLA Professor Kenny Burrell Among Seven To Receive Nation’s Highest Jazz Honor LOS ANGELES Kenny Burrell, the renowned jazz guitarist and the director of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), has been named a 2005 Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Designation as an NEA Jazz […]

February 9, 2005

Native Americans

Harvard Releases Report on American Indian Socio-Economic Change From 1990-2000

Harvard Releases Report on American Indian Socio-Economic Change From 1990-2000CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Identified for decades as the poorest group in the United States, American Indians living on reservations made substantial gains, both economically and socially, during the final decade of the 20th century. A new report released by The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at […]

January 26, 2005

Faculty & Staff

Former La Raza Leader Joins ASU To Develop Hispanic-Based Community Development Institute

Former La Raza Leader Joins ASU To Develop Hispanic-Based Community Development InstitutePHOENIXThe former head of the Washington-based National Council of La Raza joined Arizona State University earlier this month. Raul Yzaguirre will develop a Hispanic-based community development institute and bolster the school’s efforts to raise money, recruit minority faculty and students and accelerate partnerships with […]

January 26, 2005

Kent State Researcher to Look for Clues in Tsunami Sand

Kent State Researcher to Look for Clues in Tsunami SandKENT, OhioAside from the massive tragedy that resulted from a tsunami in South Asia, a research opportunity also suddenly exists for a Kent State University assistant professor of geology who studies tsunami sedimentation. Sand deposits may hold clues for Dr. Andrew Moore, who plans to visit […]

January 26, 2005

African-American

Sharing Some of the Blame

Sharing Some of the BlameThis letter is a response to the critique offered by Dr. Gerald E. Matthews to Dr. Bill Cosby’s comments and remarks about low-income African Americans (see Black Issues, Dec. 30, 2004). I am not an African American of wealth, but I did emerge from a childhood of poverty to my present […]

January 26, 2005

Chicano Studies At the University of Mexico Getting New, Inclusive Name

Chicano Studies At the University of Mexico Getting New, Inclusive NameALBUQUERQUE, N.M. The University of New Mexico’s Chicano Studies Program is getting a more inclusive name. The program, which began in 1971, has changed from Chicano studies to Southwest Hispanic studies. Now, it’s becoming Chicano, Hispano, Mexicano studies. The new name is more inclusive, says […]

January 12, 2005

African-American

Vanishing Black College Students?

Vanishing Black College Students? A young woman at my church confided in me that she dreams of enlisting in the military. Because we were in church, I simply shuddered and held my tongue, but my face must have told her what I would have liked to say. We talked a few minutes and she shared […]

January 12, 2005

From Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and Their Dilemmas Within the Academy

From Oppression to Grace: Women of Color and Their Dilemmas Within the AcademyEdited by Dr. Theodora Regina Berry and Dr. Nathalie MizelleStylus Publishing, 2004288pp., $24.95 paperback ISBN: 1579221114; $59.95 hardcover ISBN 1579221106 This book gives voice to the experiences of women of color — women of African, American Indian, Latina, East Indian, Korean and Japanese […]

January 12, 2005

Faculty & Staff

MUSIC: Teresa L. Reed

MUSICMaking A Joyful NoiseTeresa L. ReedTitle: Associate Professor of Music Theory and Literature and Director, African American Studies Program, University of TulsaEducation: Ph.D., Music Theory, Indiana University; M.M., Music Theory, University of Tulsa; B.A., Music, Valparaiso UniversityAge: 40 Her friends, colleagues and even the critics agree: Dr. Teresa L. Reed is making a joyful noise […]

January 12, 2005