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UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime

UVA Student Victim Of Campus Hate Crime CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.The mood for University of Virginia students returning from Spring Break is likely to be somber as they attempt to grapple with the fallout from the latest of a string of divisive racial incidents: an assault on a minority student running for student council that left her […]

March 26, 2003

African-American

Challenging the Future of Black Studies

Challenging the Future of Black StudiesScholars debate and discover ‘profound generation gap’ at conferenceBy Kendra Hamilton NEW YORKWhile hundreds of Black scholars from across the nation were making plans to converge on New York City last month for what promised to be one of the landmark conferences of the year — “The State of Black […]

March 12, 2003

African-American

Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts

Black Guide to Life at Harvard Debuts CAMBRIDGE, Mass.Harvard University’s Black Students Association unveiled its long-awaited “The Black Guide to Life at Harvard” last month during an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Afro-American Studies department. The 322-page guide is the first comprehensive publication on resources for Black students, containing a history of Blacks […]

March 12, 2003

Faculty & Staff

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life

The Art of High Performance In Technology, Science, Life In “Mastering the Challenge of High-Performance Computing,” senior writer Ronald Roach examines the nexus between information technology and scientific discovery. For the nation’s colleges and universities to have truly competitive information technology infrastructures, campus leaders will have to adopt innovative technologies in their campus networks that […]

March 12, 2003

African-American

Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions

Key Findings From Three Recent Studies on Race and Admissions * From “Closing the Gap?: Texas College Enrollments Before and After Affirmative Action”Rates of admission for minority applicants at Texas’ flagship institutions fell sharply after the ban on affirmative action. For African Americans applying to Texas A&M University, the probability of admission fell from 74.9 […]

February 26, 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

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

Students

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

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

African-American

The Many Faces of Bias

The Many Faces of BiasBy Julianne Malveaux If 2002 did nothing else, it provided those who teach African American studies with scores of “teachable moments” about race, class, gender, history and intersectionality. The year-end flap about Sen. Trent Lott’s hankering back to the good old days of segregation could easily take up hours of conversation, […]

January 15, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]

January 15, 2003