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Section: Demographics > African-American
Sports
Eddie Robinson Museum Opening Feb. 13
Almost a decade after the Legislature authorized a state museum to honor former Grambling football coach Eddie G. Robinson, it will open on what would have been his 91st birthday.
February 2, 2010
Faculty & Staff
Southern U. in Baton Rouge Nearing the ‘Point of Crisis’
Deep state budget cuts, forced by falling state revenue and a new focus on performance-based funding, is pushing Southern University of Baton Rouge (SUBR) to the brink of crisis, the school’s chancellor says.
February 1, 2010
Leadership & Policy
JSU President Defends Black College ‘Unity’ Plan
Jackson State University (JSU) President Dr. Ronald Mason has received a sharp rebuke from Black lawmakers and supporters of historically Black colleges and universities over his proposal to unite JSU with the state’s other two historically Black universities.
January 31, 2010
African-American
U.S. Racial History Less Understood Among Post-Racial Generation, Scholars Say
After the election of President Barack Obama, some college students consider prejudice and racism as relics of American societal behavior.
January 31, 2010
African-American
Protesters Reflect on Success of Student Sit-ins
Fifty years ago today, four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store, bought a few items, then sat down at the “Whites only” lunch counter and sparked a wave of civil rights protest that changed America.
January 31, 2010
African-American
Racial Threat Puts Ohio College on Alert, on Edge
An attacker could find many places to hide at Hocking College, a campus carved into a forest in the Appalachian foothills. And with the threat of a mass killing looming over Black students at the community college, Allen Edwards is steering clear of the trees.
January 28, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Minority Male Plight Demands Broad U.S. Action, College Board Says
A College Board report highlighting the “overwhelming barriers” U.S. minority males confront in becoming educated and productive citizens.
January 26, 2010
African-American
Scholars Speak Out on Haiti
In the aftermath of Haiti’s devastating earthquake, Diverse interviews three scholars of Haitian descent who study the island nation and teach its history and culture on the college level.
January 20, 2010
African-American
Haiti’s History Created Bond With Many U.S. Blacks
While a terrible earthquake anywhere in the Caribbean would hit a sympathetic nerve in most Americans, Haiti holds a unique place in the hearts of many American Blacks.
January 19, 2010
Students
Lottery-winning Alumnus Donates $10 Million to South Carolina HBCU
Hoping to spread the joy of a $260 million Powerball lottery jackpot, the Rev. Solomon Jackson has donated $10 million of his “good fortune” to his alma mater, Morris College, a historically Black college in Sumter, S.C.
January 19, 2010
African-American
Scholar West Urges Holiday Audience Not to ‘Sanitize’ King’s Legacy
A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.’s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon’s church, urging the audience not to “sanitize” King’s legacy or let the president off the hook on issues like poverty.
January 18, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Delaware State Trustee Reflects on Interim Presidency
Dr. Claibourne Smith’s tenure as interim leader of Delaware State inspires him to take a more active role on the Dover-based institution’s board of trustees.
January 18, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Observers Say U. of Virginia Diversity Prowess Safe with Sullivan
When a highly selective institution garners an enviable diversity record as that found at The University of Virginia change at the top is bound to raise concerns. But those familiar with the school’s new president say those concerns are unwarranted.
January 14, 2010
African-American
Analysis: Post-racial Era Yet to Dawn in America
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s remarks about Barack Obama, only the latest such eruption since America’s first Black president took office a year ago, probably say more about the state of race relations in the United States than they do about Obama.
January 12, 2010
African-American
Rhode Island to Highlight African-American Memoir in Tours, School Curriculum
William J. Brown’s 1883 memoir is at the center of a yearlong project, funded by the Rhode Island Council on the Humanities, which seeks to raise the free Black civic leader’s profile and further the public’s understanding of African-American history in Rhode Island.
January 11, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Former Howard U. President James Cheek dies at 77
WASHINGTON — James E. Cheek, who served as Howard University’s president for 20 years and oversaw major expansions at the school, has died. He was 77.
January 10, 2010
Leadership & Policy
Norfolk State’s Meyers to Step Down June 30
After more than three years of leading the southeastern Virginia-based historically Black public institution, Norfolk State University president Carolyn W. Meyers is stepping down from her post on June 30.
January 7, 2010
African-American
Congress Expected to Focus on Education in 2010
The U.S. Congress is expected to turn its attention to higher education in the new year.
January 7, 2010
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