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Coming to Terms with the ‘D’ Word

Hoping for the best, expecting the worst. That’s one way of describing what I was feeling….

August 23, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers

In this city, now unfortunately infamous for an elite university’s lacrosse team party that may have gotten out of hand…

July 12, 2006

Faculty & Staff

Franklin Symposium: Black Achievement Suffers Because of Inadequate Relationships With Teachers

In this city, now unfortunately famous for an elite university’s lacrosse team party that may or may not have gotten out of hand, sits two high schools under a judge’s threat of closure because not enough students appear to be on track to attend any college, much less Duke.

June 18, 2006

Intellectual Expansion Through International Learning

I can remember seeing a large paper map of the world in grade school. It showed the United States as a large body of land that seemed to…

May 17, 2006

African-American

Making the Past Present

Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III talks often about “the ancestors.” On the job since July, the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture knows that the “eyes of the world” are trained on him now…

February 8, 2006

African-American

Making the Past Present

Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III talks often about “the ancestors.” On the job since July, the founding director of the…

February 8, 2006

African-American

Farmers Insurance Group Announces National Black History Educational Initiative for Educators

Farmers Insurance Group has partnered with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to bring…

February 2, 2006

John Hope Franklin Holds a Mirror to America

It’s the rare historian whose life looms as large as the events he or she chronicles…

December 28, 2005

John Hope Franklin Publishes Memoirs of Life

These days, Dr. John Hope Franklin spends more time in the greenhouse with his collection of 300 orchids than in library stacks…

November 16, 2005

John Hope Franklin Writes Memoir of a Life

These days, Dr. John Hope Franklin spends more time in the greenhouse with his collection of 300 orchids behind his home than in library stacks…

October 27, 2005

The End of An Era, But Not the End of the Struggle Black Issues In Higher Education Transitions to DIVERSE

For Frank Matthews, publisher and editor in chief of Black Issues In Higher Education, and Bill Cox, president and CEO… Story:

August 16, 2005

The End of An Era, But Not the End of the Struggle Black Issues In Higher Education Transitions to DIVERSE

For Frank Matthews, publisher and editor in chief of Black Issues In Higher Education, and Bill Cox, president and CEO, the journey from Black Issues to DIVERSE began more than 20 years ago… Story:

August 10, 2005

Leadership & Policy

Teachable Moments

Teachable MomentsWhen protests erupted following the publication of an anti-reparations ad in a campus newspaper, Brown University President Ruth Simmons decided her community could benefit from taking a closer look at the university’s historical ties to slavery By Kendra HamiltonIt all started as a rather run-of-the-mill campus controversy over race and slavery: an anti-reparations ad […]

February 9, 2005

Oklahoma Race Riot Memorial to be Named for John Hope Franklin

Oklahoma Race Riot Memorial to be Named for John Hope FranklinTULSA, Okla. A planned memorial to Tulsa’s 1921 race riot will be named in honor of internationally acclaimed historian and author Dr. John Hope Franklin, who is a native of Rentiesville and spent much of his youth in Tulsa. The committee in charge of designing […]

January 12, 2005

2004: A Year in Review

2004: A Year in Review The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and, of course, the hotly contested U.S. presidential election were just two of the events that dominated the headlines in 2004. Throughout the year, colleges and universities, as well as other educational institutions across the country, commemorated the Supreme Court’s landmark […]

December 29, 2004

African-American

The Soul of David Levering Lewis

The Soul of David Levering LewisAward-Winning Scholar Contemporizes Black Intellectual TraditionBy Ronald Roach At the 20th anniversary gala of Black Issues In Higher Education this past June, Dr. David Levering Lewis was honored with an inaugural John Hope Franklin Distinguished Contributor to Higher Education award. Lewis’ prize-winning scholarship played no small part in his selection […]

December 29, 2004

Leadership & Policy

Smithsonian Names Members of Council, Advisory

Smithsonian Names Members of Council, Advisory Committee for National African American History Museum WASHINGTON Dr. Michael L. LomaxH. Patrick SwygertThe Smithsonian Board of Regents, the institution’s governing body, named the members of the founding Council of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in early December. The new museum will be the only […]

December 29, 2004

Leadership & Policy

It’s a Wrap

It’s a WrapEvents in 2004 proved riveting. One of the more highly anticipated events, besides the U.S. presidential election, was the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board. During one of the more glamorous celebrations of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, entertainer Bill Cosby took the occasion to criticize the behavior and […]

December 29, 2004