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Section: Demographics > African-American

Faculty & Staff

Hostile words in Texas – campus rallies against University of Texas law professor

AUSTIN, Tex. Led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, about 10,000 students rallied last month to protest comments by a White University of Texas law-school professor who said African Americans and Hispanics cannot compete academically with Whites. University of Texas officials have criticized Professor Lino Graglia for his remarks, but say he will not be disciplined.

July 11, 2007

African-American

Does education rationing have racial undertones?

For much of this summer, I have clipped a series of articles that raise questions about access to higher education. Though the articles have taken different approaches, they end up asking a similar set of questions – who should go to college and how should it be financed?

July 11, 2007

African-American

The Cattle Killing. – book reviews

Because The Cattle Killing, John Edgar Wideman’s first work of fiction in six years, is about loss – loss of life, loss of faith, loss of hope, innocence and direction – it seems only fitting that this review should begin like the book, with a metaphorical slaughtering.

July 11, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Powerful pages – unprecedented public impact of W.W. Norton and Co’s Norton Anthology of African American Literature

New African American Literature Anthology is Finding Academic and General Audiences

July 11, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Phenomenal growth – Black Issues in Higher Education’s sixth annual Top 100 rankings of minority baccalaureates – Cover Story

African American Baccalaureates Surge by 30% From 1991 to 1995

July 10, 2007

African-American

Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World. – book reviews

Think of Saving Our Sons: Raising Black Children in a Turbulent World as a very successful “crossover” book – a testimony bridging seriously crafted nonfiction and popular concerns, joining readers both erudite and everyday to heed a message important to all.

July 10, 2007

Changing the complexion of collegiate golf; Andy Walker helps pave the way by helping Pepperdine to NCAA championship – National Collegiate Athletic Association

Please don’t call Andy Walker the next Tiger Woods. He’s too busy being the first Andy Walker.

July 10, 2007

African-American

Ain’t Gonna Lay My ‘Ligion Down: African American Religion in the South. – book reviews

Convinced of the connection between religion and culture, Alonzo Johnson and Paul Jersild have attempted to contribute to a greater understanding of African Americans and their culturally religious ideas. Ain’t Gonna Lay My `Ligion Down: African American Religion in the South moves toward this end by examining aspects of the connectedness of Black and southern religion and culture.

July 10, 2007

Scholarship, sisterhood, service – black women in African American fraternities

When twenty-two young Black women came together at Howard University to form Delta Sigma Theta sorority, their goal was to focus on scholarship, sisterhood, and service to the African American community. A review of the sorority’s early history indicates that these young women, and the ones who followed them, did exactly that.

July 10, 2007

Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”

July 10, 2007

African-American

Holding on to African American history

For decades, white institutions and a handful of historically Black college and university (HBCU) archives have served as the main repositories for document and artifacts that tell the story of the history and contributions of people of African descent. But countless other pieces of Black America’s historical fabric are collecting dust in church basements or crumbling on bookshelves.

July 10, 2007

The true significance of sports for Black Americans

I am not a sports fan. I’ve written that so many times it seems redundant to write it again. No, this is not another sports-bashing column. Been there, done that. This is a column about the context of sports, about the reasons why sports has been so important for African American people.

July 6, 2007

African-American

African American professors propose creation of institute to help developing countries

BRUSSELS, Belgium Professors at Howard and Fisk universities are proposing that an institute without walls be established by America’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to assist developing nations in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific islands.

July 6, 2007

Overcoming segregation in Alabama becomes responsibility of HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama Jamie Fleming is like other non-traditional college students in several ways. He has a strife and a nineteen-month-old son. He has a full-time job and he commutes more than 240 miles a week to attend classes. But until Fleming, who graduated from an all-white high school on rural Sand Mountain, Alabama, enrolled at Northeast Alabama State Community College on a scholarship, he had never sat in a classroom with an African American.

July 6, 2007

African-American

Gone Fishin.’ – book reviews

Gone Fishin’, the first-written and latest-published of Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins novels, may well be his finest work. Written in 1988, the book is a complex work with layers of meaning, yet it is deceptively simple and therefore easy to read and completely absorbing. Perhaps that is one of the marks of a classic.

July 6, 2007

African-American

Patterson Research Institute reports on educational profile of African Americans

Late last month, as part of a highly ambitious research effort on African American education, the first volume in a series of reports on the state of education in Black America was released.

July 4, 2007

African-American

An educational edge?: A women’s history month meditation

Do African American women enjoy an educational advantage over African American men? According to the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of The College Fund/UNCF, Black women are at least earning more degrees.

July 4, 2007

African-American

Breeder and Other Stories. – book reviews

Reviewed by Opal J. Moore Breeder and Other Stories by Dr. Eugenia Collier Black Classic Press, 1994 Baltimore, Maryland 188 pages Hardback: $11.95 I have stored up tales for you, my children My favorite children, my only children; Of shackles and slaves and a bill of rights.

July 4, 2007