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African-American

Rift Between Harvard Scholars, President Makes National News

Rift Between Harvard Scholars, President Makes National NewsBostonControversy at Harvard University made national news last month when reports surfaced that several prominent Black scholars were considering leaving over a rift with Harvard’s new president Dr. Lawrence Summers. According to reports first published in The Boston Globe, Drs. Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates and Anthony Appiah, […]

January 16, 2002

The New McCarthyism

The New McCarthyismWhat’s wrong with this picture? The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a frequent campus speaker, tells students at Harvard Law School that the United States should “build bridges and relationships, not simply bombs and walls.” Many, including the most hawkish foreign policy analysts, would agree with the generalities implicit in these sentiments, if not the […]

December 19, 2001

Mellon Makes its Mark

Mellon Makes its MarkOver the past 13 years, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has invested $50 million in doctoral programs. Their investment is now paying off as the program becomes one of the premier pipelines for producing minority doctorates. By Ronald Roach DURHAM, N.C.Sheldon Lyke had long harbored ambivalence about getting a doctorate to become […]

July 18, 2001

Runaway Slaves: An Intimate History of Slave Resistance

Runaway Slaves: An Intimate History of Slave ResistanceIn the course of human events, it sometimes becomes necessary for one people, regardless of color, gender or age, to dissolve the bonds which have connected them to another and to assume the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness which nature and nature’s God entitle […]

May 23, 2001

The Peculiar InstitutionNew Trends and Controversies in Researching and Teaching Slavery

The Peculiar InstitutionNew Trends and Controversies in Researching and Teaching Slavery By Paul Ruffins Because of its richness and controversy, the study of slavery has captured the interest and imagination of many different theorists. In turn, these researchers have discovered new documents and reinterpreted older sources of data. Because these scholars’ sources and conclusions are […]

May 23, 2001

The Peculiar InstitutionNew Trends and Controversies in Researching and Teaching Slavery

The Peculiar InstitutionNew Trends and Controversies in Researching and Teaching Slavery By Paul Ruffins Because of its richness and controversy, the study of slavery has captured the interest and imagination of many different theorists. In turn, these researchers have discovered new documents and reinterpreted older sources of data. Because these scholars’ sources and conclusions are […]

May 23, 2001

Rap, Race and Reparations

Rap, Race and ReparationsFisk University’s Race Relations Institute is continuing its long legacy of involving itself in the day’s most pressing issues facing Blacks around the world. By David HefnerNASHVILLE, Tenn.The news came in mid-December. Kemba Smith, the 23-year-old college student sentenced in 1995 on cocaine trafficking charges for her association with a drug-dealing boyfriend, […]

April 11, 2001

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Rejected Judge rules diversity is not a compelling state interest

University of Michigan’s Admissions Policy Rejected Judge rules diversity is not a compelling state interestBy Erik LordsDETROITMany national leaders expressed shock and disappointment late last month after a U.S. District Judge in Detroit ruled that the University of Michigan’s race-conscious law school admissions policy is unconstitutional. Lawyers for the University of Michigan and a group […]

April 11, 2001

Leadership & Policy

Howard University Alumnus Pledges $5 Million to Alma Mater

Howard University Alumnus Pledges $5 Million to Alma Mater WASHINGTONDuring Howard University’s Charter Day ceremonies held in early March, Howard Alumnus Frank Savage, chairman of Alliance Capital Management International and chairman of the Howard University Board of Trustees, announced a $5 million pledge to the university, which would be the largest donation from a Howard […]

March 28, 2001

HBCUs Will Still Have A Role to Play In the 21st Century

HBCUs Will Still Have A Role to Play In the 21st CenturyWith the new millennium now underway, and with predominately White higher education institutions aggressively recruiting Black students, the question may be asked, “Will HBCUs [historically Black colleges and universities] remain an important part of U.S. higher education in the 21st century?”The major reason Blacks […]

January 31, 2001

A Renaissance Center Named for a Renaissance Man

A Renaissance Center Named for a Renaissance ManMany people do not know that in addition to being a world-renowned historian, Dr. John Hope Franklin is also a lover and grower of orchids. There’s even one named after him, the Phalaenopsis-John Hope Franklin.Considering his varied interests, its seems only fitting that the Duke University center that […]

January 17, 2001

The Sage In his own Words

The Sage In his own WordsDr. John Hope Franklin is without question a giant among historians. His outstanding record of research and scholarship has won the admiration of U.S. presidents, fellow educators and scholars from around the globe. This gentleman/scholar is still turning out award-winning books even as an octogenarian. BI Senior Writer Joan Morgan […]

January 17, 2001

Faculty & Staff

Creating a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope Franklin

Creating a Fitting Tribute Duke University Honors Historian John Hope FranklinThe idea of creating a tribute to world-renowned historian Dr. John Hope Franklin at Duke University was easy for administrators and faculty to support. Deciding what the tribute should be and raising the $20 million dollars needed to build it, however, has proven more challenging than […]

January 17, 2001

Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial

Michigan Law School Prepares for Historic Affirmative Action Trial By Erik LordsDetroit When an affirmative action lawsuit against the University of Michigan’s law school goes to trial here this month, it will be thick with historical significance.Lawyers for a group of intervening minority students in the case will present an unprecedented legal argument, and they […]

January 17, 2001

Looking Like America

Looking Like AmericaA s we usher in the “real” new millennium and with the presidential inauguration just around the corner, many eyes have been on President-elect George W. Bush’s Cabinet picks. Many wondered whether he would choose a bi-partisan Cabinet to appease Democrats, considering the outcome of the presidential election, or whether he would select […]

January 17, 2001

The Miseducation of Hip-Hop

The Miseducation of Hip-HopAre Today’s Faculty and Administrators Simply Out of Touch? Or Has Today’s Popular Music Truly Corrupted the Minds of a Whole Generation? By Jamilah EvelynNEWARK, Del.When Jason Hinmon transferred to the University of Delaware two years ago from Morehouse College in Atlanta, the 22-year-old senior says he almost dropped out his first semester.He […]

December 6, 2000

News Briefs

One Florida Plan Meets More OppositionTALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights have voted to issue a statement criticizing Gov. Jeb Bush’s program banning consideration of race and gender in university admissions and contracting decisions. The federal panel voted 6-2 to approve the statement earlier this month, says commission spokesman David […]

April 26, 2000

Major Matters

Major MattersIt used to be that if you were to ask a Black person who graduated from a traditionally White college to name the first Black person to earn a degree from that institution in say, electrical engineering, they could probably do it within the blink of an eye.More often than not, the person who […]

April 12, 2000