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Sports
Sports, competition and society – athletic and academic competition seen as outcome of a competitive society
Sixty-four teams from historically Black colleges and universities competed on the basis of their knowledge at the Honda Campus All-Star Classic in Orlando FL. The final four competition was as intense as the basketball classic, and Black America’s best and brightest strutted their intellectual stuff as confidently as star basketball players strut their gamesmanship.
June 16, 2007
African-American
A piece of history – Clark Atlanta University Buys Historic Paschal’s Hotel-Restaurant
ATLANTA In one transaction, Clark Atlanta University has acquired a legendary Black business, a new dormitory and a world-class chicken recipe.
June 16, 2007
Students
Making of the Chicano movement revisited – lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968 – Column
Twenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools — and, by day’s end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.
June 16, 2007
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African-American
Over there: exchange programs and colleges seek to send minority students abroad – US education programs
In some communities, foreign travel is viewed as a rite of passage to round out the college experience. But far too few African Americans are taking advantage of the opportunity to Broaden their horizons in the world classroom for reasons that include lack of access to information about opportunities, limited funds, language restrictions and concentration in fields that are not targeted for foreign exchange programs.
June 16, 2007
Latinx
Chicano studies: forging identity – development of Chicano studies as a discipline
Carlos Munoz, Chicano studies professor at the University of California-Berkeley, says the relatively large influx of Chicano students into universities unleashed a political movement focused on civil and human rights and an intellectual movement that both challenged historical knowledge and created the discipline of Chicano studies.
June 16, 2007
Students
Building Aztlan – resurgence of Chicano activism on campus
Some Chicano scholars say the beginning of the Chicano activist movement was the defense of Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in 1521, which pitted the indigenous Mexican population against Spanish invaders. Others define it as the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848, when Mexico lost half of its territory to the United States and Mexican residents became, as one scholar put it, “strangers in their own land.”
June 16, 2007
African-American
Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Goverment. – book reviews
Separate & Unequal: Black Americans and the U.S. Federal Government, Desmond King, Oxford University Press, 1995. $35.00 (hardcover)
June 16, 2007
Students
Little-known, little-recognized: historically black community colleges defy categorization, get job done
Providing a variety of college experiences and job training to thousands of Black, Hispanic and other students is a task honed to perfection by a handful of little-known and little-recognized historically Black community colleges.
June 16, 2007
African-American
Building the village: one scientist at a time – university professor’s program for minority high school students
When Dr. Billy Joe Evans was in high school, his parents couldn’t pay for the exam that would permit him to attend college early. So one of his teachers paid. “That’s the kind of commitment we need from the village,” he says, alluding to the African proverb that “it takes a village to raise a child.”
June 16, 2007
Latinx
A degree of success – Black students raise Scholastic Assessment Test scores, overcoming ‘stereotype vulnerability’ – Recruitment & Retention
`Stereotype Vulnerability’ Being Overcome As Black Students Raise Their SAT Scores And Collect More Degrees.
June 15, 2007
African-American
Back to the ‘schoolhouse.’ – James Hood returns to University of Alabama for a doctorate degree – Recruitment & Retention
When James Hood integrated the University of Alabama under the watchful eye of a national television audience in 1963, education was the farthest career from his mind. He was planning to earn a degree, enter a seminary and become a minister. More than three decades later, Hood has returned to the university where he and Vivian Malone, the other Black student who enrolled with him, defied then Gov. George Wallace’s pledge to prevent desegregation efforts to earn a doctorate degree and to continue to nurture his love of education. That love has been focused for many years on community college education.
June 15, 2007
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Latinx
Dos culturas, one pedagogy: teaching history from black and Hispanic perspectives – efforts to raise ethnic identity amongst the Mexican and African Americans in Texas – Cover Story
Teaching History From Black and Hispanic Perspectives.
June 15, 2007
African-American
American culture’s African roots
A professor of dance at Temple University, Brenda Dixon Gottschild draws upon her expertise in that discipline as a springboard to explore a multifaceted phenomenon: the substantial African and African American intertwining with “dominant” (read white) American culture.
June 15, 2007
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African-American
Ten myths, half-truths and misunderstandings about Black history
Black history may have seemed “lost, stolen or strayed” at one time, but since then much of the African American past has been rediscovered and reanalyzed.
June 15, 2007
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Latinx
Washington update
22 Black Colleges Risk Losing Student Loan Eligibility Status.
June 15, 2007
Leadership & Policy
Being presidential in dixie – African-Americans as presidents at traditionally white colleges
Black Academics Finding Fewer Barriers At Traditionally White Colleges.
June 15, 2007
African-American
Dorothy Porter Wesley: preserver of Black history – Afro-American librarian
The extraordinary career of Dorothy Porter Wesley spanned sixty-five years, from her appointment in 1930 as librarian at Howard University’s nascent Moorland Foundation, a Library of Negro Life, until her death on December 17, 1995. Through out this period she remained the quintessential librarian — a collector and dispenser of knowledge. She was an elder in the community of scholars who had experienced the continuum that is history and was a vast reservoir of wisdom, which she imparted to successive generations of students of Black history and culture.
June 15, 2007
African-American
African Americans in Hollywood: A black-on-black shame
It’s Friday night in Chicago. Ice and snow blanket the surrounding landscape. Chicago’s frigid winds reinforces its nickname “Windy City.” But despite the sub-zero winds, a long line of shivering Chicagoans fight off the bone chilling cold and huddle tightly together, anticipating the first showing of the movie “Jason’s Lyric.” A voice bellows from behind the ticket window, announcing the 9:30 p.m. show is sold out. The next Showing is scheduled for 10:45 p.m. But ignoring the cold, not a single person moves. With such loyalty from African-American filmgoers, the question begs asking: “Why do so many Black filmmakers in Hollywood seem to take this level of dedication for granted?”
June 15, 2007
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