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Bush Budget Has Controversy, But Few Gains

Bush Budget Has Controversy, But Few GainsMany student aid programs face funding freezeBy Charles Dervarics The Bush administration is proposing a funding freeze for many student aid programs next year while cutting a variety of K-12 initiatives, including several projects to promote school reform. The top Pell grant for needy students would remain unchanged at […]

February 26, 2003

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 […]

February 12, 2003

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 […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

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 […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

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 […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

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 […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

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 […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

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 […]

February 12, 2003

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 […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

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 […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

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, […]

January 29, 2003

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 […]

January 29, 2003

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 […]

January 29, 2003

African-American

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 […]

January 29, 2003

Leadership & Policy

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say

UGA Fails to Make Recruiting Minorities a Priority, Consultants Say ATHENS, Ga.The University of Georgia is failing in its goal to make recruiting minority students a priority, according to consultants who visited the campus and talked with faculty, staff, administrators and students. “It is seen as an important issue but not among the first five […]

January 29, 2003

HBCUs, HSIs on House Agenda

HBCUs, HSIs on House AgendaBy Charles Dervarics House Republicans say increased support for minority-serving colleges and universities will be one of their 10 major education goals for the new Congress. Leaders of the House Education and the Workforce Committee listed aid to Black colleges and Hispanic-serving institutions among three priorities specifically focused on higher education. […]

January 29, 2003

African-American

Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents

Minority Groups Turn Up the Heat On Affirmative Action Opponents By Charles Dervarics Civil rights organizations and groups representing Hispanics and African Americans are turning up the heat on opponents of the University of Michigan affirmative action case even before the case gets before the U.S. Supreme Court. Advocates went on the offensive in early […]

January 29, 2003

The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter

The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American FictionEdited by Devon W. Carbado, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise Foreword by Evelyn C. White Cleis Press, 2002, 555 pp., $29.95, Trade paper, ISBN 1-57344-108-2 Fiction by gay, lesbian and bisexual […]

January 15, 2003