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In Good Company
In Good Company Like many media outlets last year, Black Issues followed the story of the departures of popular Harvard professors Cornel West and Kwame Anthony Appiah to Princeton University.As time went on, the question seemed to be whether Harvard’s Afro-American studies chairman Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. would remain at Harvard or perhaps follow […]
October 8, 2003
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African-American
‘ Whatever ItTakes’
‘ Whatever ItTakes’A Community BuilderEthnic roots of Blacks and Hispanics hail from different parts of the world, but when it comes to higher education, the disadvantages facing both groups often transcend skin color. Yet a growing number of educators believe that intense outreach in urban communities can help students of color who are culturally and […]
September 24, 2003
Students
Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama
Black Student Gets Bid to White Sorority at University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, Ala.A Black student at the University of Alabama accepted a bid to a traditionally White sorority last month, a rare case in which the longstanding racial exclusivity of the campus Greek social system has been broken.Carla Ferguson, a freshman from Tuscaloosa, was the […]
September 10, 2003
African-American
In Appreciation
In AppreciationAnthropology Professor John Ogbu Dies at Age 64 Dr. John Uzo Ogbu, professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a path-breaking scholar in the fields of minority education and identity, died of a heart attack after undergoing back surgery on Aug. 20. He was 64. Ogbu is known for his work […]
September 10, 2003
African-American
Economy Influences Minority Students’ College Choice, Survey Finds
Economy Influences Minority Students’ College Choice, Survey FindsLEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. The current state of the U.S. economy has more influence on African American and Latino high school students’ college choice than that of White students, according to a recent survey. The survey, conducted by the National Research Center for College and University Admissions (NRCCUA) and […]
August 13, 2003
African-American
After Years of Delay, Remains May Be Reburied at African Burial Ground
After Years of Delay, Remains May Be Reburied at African Burial GroundNEW YORK A dozen years after the discovery of a Colonial-era burial ground in lower Manhattan, the remains of some of the slaves and free Blacks once buried there may finally be re-interred this fall. Ceremonies to mark the event are tentatively scheduled for Sept. […]
July 30, 2003
Students
Taking Care of Business
Taking Care of Business Commitment to faculty, students and fund raising brings Florida State dean early legacy of successBy Pearl Stewart Tallahassee, Fla. One morning about three years ago, Dr. Melvin Stith brushed past a student who seemed to need assistance in his outer office. When the dean of the Florida State University College of […]
July 2, 2003
African-American
Babson College, HBCU Consortium to Develop Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Babson College, HBCU Consortium to Develop Entrepreneurship Curriculum WELLESLEY, Mass. Babson College and four historically Black colleges and universities have formed a partnership to support entrepreneurship initiatives. Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, North Carolina A&T and Southern University will work with Babson to create curricular materials focusing on African American entrepreneurs and minority-owned businesses, and […]
June 18, 2003
African-American
Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank
Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank WASHINGTON Howard University hopes to create the nation’s largest bank of DNA from Black Americans with the aim of studying genes involved in diseases that disproportionately strike Blacks. The DNA bank isn’t funded yet, but the university announced last month that it would work with a well-known database […]
June 18, 2003
Students
San Jose Students Want Statue Honoring Olympic Salute
San Jose Students Want Statue Honoring Olympic SaluteSAN JOSE, Calif. Thirty-five years after sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos bowed their heads and raised their fists on the Olympic podium in a Black power salute, students at their alma mater want to honor their controversial gesture with a statue. The image of two athletes raising […]
June 4, 2003
African-American
Harvard’s Gates to be Visiting Scholar at Princeton Think Tank
Harvard’s Gates to be Visiting Scholar at Princeton Think Tank TRENTON, N.J.The chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies is joining a think tank in Princeton for one year as a visiting scholar. Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. ended a widely watched academic tug-of-war in December, announcing he would remain as head of Harvard’s […]
June 4, 2003
Students
Sorority Launches Science, Technology Radio Show
Sorority Launches Science, Technology Radio Show WASHINGTON Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., has teamed up with a Washington-based talk radio station to bring science and technology information into African American homes. The Science and Everyday Experiences (SEE) radio program is part of the sorority’s ongoing efforts to get young African Americans and their families involved […]
June 4, 2003
African-American
Lincoln University Kicks Off 150th Anniversary Celebration
Lincoln University Kicks Off 150th Anniversary Celebration LINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa.More than 600 students, faculty, administrators, staff, local officials and visitors helped kick off Lincoln University’s 150th anniversary celebration last month. The historically Black university was founded in 1854 and has graduated more than 14,000 young men and women.“Today, with a solid foundation, unprecedented support from […]
May 7, 2003
African-American
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]
April 23, 2003
African-American
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]
April 23, 2003
African-American
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM
Activists for the NEW MILLENNIUM Complacent and politically unaware? Student leaders say young people are screaming, but no one is listening.By Kendra Hamilton Baghdad is burning, and the streets of the world’s cities are full of anti-war protesters — as well as anti-globalization protesters, anti-sweatshop protesters, campus “greens” and much more — but some observers […]
April 23, 2003
African-American
UNC-Chapel Hill Conference Explores Roots and Experience Of Black Canadians
UNC-Chapel Hill Conference Explores Roots and Experience Of Black Canadians CHAPEL HILL, N.C.Some folks are under the misperception that Canada’s Black population consists largely of descendents of escaped African American slaves, that Canada never had slavery, and that the country is devoid of racism. Not so, said experts at a recent conference here aimed to […]
April 23, 2003
Students
Paris Noir
Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the “City of Lights”By Robert J. Vickers Over the course of American history, Paris has stood out as an intriguing place for African Americans. Josephine Baker renounced American racism along with her citizenship in favor of the more accepting French capital and — […]
March 26, 2003
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