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UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past

UVa to Examine Its Segregated Past CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.University of Virginia officials say it is time for incoming students to learn about their school’s segregated past and how to be sensitive to classmates of all backgrounds. Administration officials say they became aware of the need to do something more about race on campus after students came […]

January 1, 2003

First Black Fraternity Chartered At University of Wyoming

First Black Fraternity Chartered At University of Wyoming LARAMIE, Wyo.The first historically Black fraternity at the University of Wyoming has received its charter after originally organizing on campus five years ago. Phi Beta Sigma now has seven active undergraduate members and four graduate student members, according to Clarence Neasman, president of the chapter and a […]

January 1, 2003

African-American

Decision to Stay at Harvard Is ‘Final,’ Gates Says

Decision to Stay at Harvard Is ‘Final,’ Gates Says BOSTONDr. Henry Louis Gates put an end to a widely watched academic tug of war last month, officially announcing he would remain as head of Harvard University’s Afro-American studies department rather than follow two prominent colleagues to Princeton. “This is for good,” Gates told The Associated […]

January 1, 2003

Promises for Another Memorable Year

Promises for Another Memorable Year We’re in the homestretch of 2002, and those of us in the higher education community already know that 2003 is gearing up to be a memorable year. By now you’ve heard that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the University of Michigan’s affirmative action cases. As long as […]

December 18, 2002

Faculty & Staff

A Shared Responsibility

A Shared ResponsibilityBluefield State’s new president makes college’s success a community agendaBy Kendra Hamilton Dr. Albert L. Walker, the new president of Bluefield State College in Bluefield, W.Va., is a career educator. He has taught in public schools and institutions of higher education since 1967. Previously, he was vice chancellor for academic affairs and a […]

December 4, 2002

African-American

Colleges in Western North Carolina Struggle to Recruit Blacks

Colleges in Western North Carolina Struggle to Recruit Blacks ASHEVILLE, N.C.The lowest enrollment of Blacks in five years at the University of North Carolina at Asheville has forced changes in how the school recruits minorities. Chancellor James Mullen issued the demand after just 10 Blacks enrolled with the 438 freshmen who started at the college […]

December 4, 2002

When Procedural Diversity is Not Enough

When Procedural Diversity is Not Enough Two fraternities at the University of Virginia were suspended as photos of members in blackface were posted on a Web site following a Halloween party, the Washington Post recently reported. If that sounds like an alarmingly familiar story, that’s because it is. Around the same time last year, Black […]

December 4, 2002

African-American

When the Personal Is Political: Telling and Selling Our Stories

When the Personal Is Political: Telling and Selling Our StoriesBy Julianne Malveaux Anthony Samad is a Los Angeles-based political scientist, economic developer and political activist. He has written a weekly column in California for more than a decade, focusing on social, political and race issues affecting African Americans. For all of his accomplishments, the greater […]

November 20, 2002

African-American

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, Genres

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, GenresScience fiction, romance share space with history and hip-hop Dr. Wilfred D. Samuels never expected to fall — and in a big way — for science fiction as a literary genre. In actuality, he’s fallen for a group of African American sci-fi, fantasy and horror writers who are using […]

November 20, 2002

African-American

Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive

Emory Receives Major Gift to African American Studies Archive ATLANTAEmory University has received a gift to its library collections that greatly increases teaching and research opportunities in 20th-century African American studies. A portion of the Hatch/Billops Collection in New York — an extraordinary collection assembled during the past 35 years — has been given to […]

November 20, 2002

African-American

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, Genres

Encyclopedia Explores Diversity of Black Writers, GenresScience fiction, romance share space with history and hip-hop Dr. Wilfred D. Samuels never expected to fall — and in a big way — for science fiction as a literary genre. In actuality, he’s fallen for a group of African American sci-fi, fantasy and horror writers who are using […]

November 6, 2002

African-American

Center for Africana Studies Opens at Penn State

November 6, 2002

African-American

Musician, Novelist, Filmmaker Among MacArthur Fellows

November 6, 2002

African-American

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race

Creating a Trans-Atlantic Agenda on Race By Ronald RoachWASHINGTONAcademic officials and policy-makers from the United States and the European Commission convened the first two of three planned conferences last month aimed at solving problems of racial discrimination and xenophobia in Europe and the United States. Although organizers say the conferences grew largely out of a […]

November 6, 2002

African-American

Studying War

Studying War “I ain’t gonna study, war no more, ain’t gonna study war no more…” This determined folk song’s refrain was an emotional rallying cry during the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements of the 1960s. Today, it is ironic that many of the key players in what seems to be a personal matter that […]

November 6, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Dual Dilemma

Dual DilemmaBlack faculty work to ensure access, while making the academy hospitable to minority faculty, students”Like most non-Blacks, I guess, I have, anyway, always thought that Afro-American Studies is a pseudo-discipline, invented by guilty White liberals as a way of keeping Black intellectuals out of trouble and giving them a shot at holding professorships at […]

October 23, 2002

Faculty & Staff

Extending Their Reach

Extending Their ReachWith the 50th anniversaries approaching of the establishment of Phi Beta Kappa chapters at Howard and Fisk universities, the anniversary is a reminder that the honor society remains a remote influence on historically Black institutions and Black students at predominantly White college campuses.By Ronald RoachFew academic organizations can claim to have conferred as […]

October 9, 2002

Greek Life Still Segregated at University of Alabama

Greek Life Still Segregated at University of AlabamaTUSCALOOSA, Ala.The University of Alabama’s traditional White fraternities and sororities remain racially segregated a year after a Black woman created a stir by trying — and failing — to gain membership (see Black Issues, Sept. 13, 2001).The membership recruitment period known as rush ended last month, and none […]

October 9, 2002