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Students
Colorado University Police Investigating Racist Hate Letter Sent to Student Leader
University of Colorado, which has recently been hit with a string of racially tinged incidents…
November 20, 2005
African-American
Survey: Many Blacks Proud to be Southerners, Despite Region’s Racist History
Blacks have a complicated love affair with the South…
November 17, 2005
Faculty & Staff
UNC-Chapel Hill Opens Up Records About Ties to Slavery
In the early decades of the nation’s oldest public university, students at the University of North Carolina…
November 16, 2005
African-American
Michigan State Professor Wins $25,000
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition…
November 16, 2005
African-American
Spike Lee Says Educated Blacks Should be Icons
Filmmaker Spike Lee told a college audience that the value of education is being overshadowed by the images gangsta rap glorifies…
November 6, 2005
African-American
Themed Dorm Party Sparks Race Debate at University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is calling for campus race relations discussions after a dorm party with a…
November 3, 2005
African-American
Vivian Malone Jones, First Black to Graduate From University of Alabama, Dies at 63
Vivian Malone Jones, one of two Black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama…
November 2, 2005
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African-American
University of Kentucky President Meets With Lawmakers Over Drop in Diversity
University of Kentucky President Lee Todd met with a group of state lawmakers last month and apologized…
November 2, 2005
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African-American
In Memoriam: August Wilson: 1945-2005
In 10 plays, nine set in Pittsburgh’s “Hill District,” August Wilson, more than any writer of his generation…
November 2, 2005
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African-American
A Question of Academic Integrity
A Question of Academic Integrity One scholar challenges the scholarship of Dr. Michael Eric DysonBy Dr. Paul R. Griffin After reading Ronald Roach’s interview (see Black Issues In Higher Education, Aug. 11, 2005) with Dr. Michael Dyson concerning Dyson’s latest book — Is Bill Cosby Right? (Or Has The Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?) […]
November 2, 2005
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Students
Professional Appointments
Miguel Cairol has been named vice president for administration and finance at New York City College of Technology/CUNY. Previously, he served as acting dean for planning and special assistant to the president. Cairol holds a bachelor’s from California State University, Los Angeles, master’s degrees from The CUNY Graduate Center and from Baruch College/ CUNY and […]
November 2, 2005
African-American
Michigan State Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition recently announced that it has awarded the Seventh Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize to Dr. Laurent Dubois for his study…
October 26, 2005
African-American
Civil Rights Pioneer, First Black University of Alabama Graduate Remembered
More than 500 mourners gave Vivian Malone Jones one last standing ovation at her funeral Wednesday, honoring the quiet courage of a civil rights icon…
October 23, 2005
African-American
Black Activists Upset Over King Tut Portraits
Black activists say the computer-generated portraits of King Tut that are scheduled to go on display at a museum
October 19, 2005
African-American
Vivian Malone Jones, First Black to Graduate from University of Alabama, Dies at 63
Vivian Malone Jones, one of two Black students whose effort to enroll at the University of Alabama led to former Gov. George Wallace’s infamous…
October 13, 2005
African-American
Exhibit Explores History of Slavery in New York
Most Americans think of slavery as a Southern institution, but for close to 200 years, New York City served as a centerpiece in the African slave trade…
October 9, 2005
African-American
Todd Meets With Lawmakers Over University of Kentucky’s Drop in Diversity
University of Kentucky President Lee Todd met with a group state lawmakers last week and said he apologized to the…
October 9, 2005
African-American
Blacks Remain an Extreme Minority At University of California Campuses
James Marshall didn’t expect it would be easy, being one of just a handful of Black students at the University of California
October 5, 2005
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