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African-American
Young Blacks Disproportionately Exposed to Alcohol Ads, Study Says
Young Blacks Disproportionately Exposed to Alcohol Ads, Study SaysWASHINGTONYoung Blacks see far more than their share of the $333 million worth of advertising placed in major magazines by the nation’s alcohol industry, a new university study says. A report by Georgetown University’s Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth, released last month, said Blacks from 12 […]
July 16, 2004
Students
Family Sues Over Drowning During Alleged Sorority Hazing
Family Sues Over Drowning During Alleged Sorority HazingLOS ANGELESThe family of one of two women who drowned during an alleged college hazing sued a sorority for wrongful death, saying its members should have known it was dangerous to send pledges into heavy surf at night. Kenitha Saafir, 24, had told her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority […]
July 16, 2004
African-American
Academic Accountability For ‘Our Children’
Academic Accountability For ‘Our Children’Thank you Black Issues. Your recent review of John Ogbu’s Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A Study in Academic Disengagement spurred me to purchase and critically read this text. As an educator, I am, of course, aware of the persistent academic achievement gap between African American and European American […]
July 16, 2004
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African-American
Strayer Holds Virtual Commencement Exercises
Strayer Holds Virtual Commencement Exercises ARLINGTON, Va.Strayer University, a leading for-profit provider of postsecondary education for working adults, is hosting a virtual commencement ceremony to honor Strayer University Online’s 2004 graduates. The multifaceted virtual commencement includes all of the traditional graduation components, according to officials. To view the ceremony, visitors should click on the designated virtual […]
July 14, 2004
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African-American
High School Students Uncover Common Goals, Troubling Differences Among Peers
High School Students Uncover Common Goals, Troubling Differences Among PeersNEW YORKA piercing new look by New York metro region high school students at race and education affirms their strong support for racially integrated schools, but cautions that 50 years after Brown v. Board of Education access to quality education and resources have not been fully […]
July 14, 2004
Students
TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship
TIAA-CREF Endows Ruth Hamilton Research ScholarshipNEW YORK TIAA-CREF, a national financial services company and retirement system for higher education and research employees, announced in June the creation of the Ruth Hamilton Research Scholarship, honoring the work of the late Michigan State University (MSU) Professor and TIAA Trustee Ruth Simms Hamilton.The Hamilton Research Scholarship is funded […]
July 14, 2004
African-American
Study Indicates Aggressive Treatment Helps African Americans With Diabetes, High Blood Pressure
Study Indicates Aggressive Treatment Helps African Americans With Diabetes, High Blood PressureDETROIT Data presented at ISHIB 2004, the annual congress of the International Society on Hypertension in Blacks, indicate that African American patients with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure benefit from aggressive use of combination high blood pressure therapy. The study, “Lotrel and Enalpril […]
June 30, 2004
African-American
African Americans Respond Poorly to Hepatitis C Treatment
African Americans Respond Poorly to Hepatitis C TreatmentDURHAM, N.C.African Americans have a significantly lower response rate to treatment for chronic hepatitis C than non-Hispanic Whites, according to a new study led by Duke University Medical Center researchers.Some African Americans — 19 percent — did respond to the drug combination of peginterferon alfa-2b and ribavirin. But […]
June 30, 2004
African-American
Letters
My View From TopekaThe cover story “A View From Topeka,” in the May 20th issue of Black Issues In Higher Education rekindled memories of a childhood growing up in Topeka, Kan., during the historical events that led to Brown v. Board of Education. There are dual memories of attending a segregated elementary school with Nancy […]
June 30, 2004
Students
Looking Toward The Future
Looking Toward The Future New research helps Black sororities and fraternities consider new governing structures for the next 100 years By Paul RuffinsAmerica’s Black college-based fraternity and sorority movement is rapidly approaching two historic milestones. Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of the National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc. (NPHC), and 2006 marks a full century since […]
June 16, 2004
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African-American
Memoirs of Slave Who Died in Vermont To be Republished This Fall
Memoirs of Slave Who Died in Vermont To be Republished This FallBURLINGTON, Vt.The last time Jeffrey Brace saw his parents was in Africa as he headed to the river for a swim with friends. “My mother pressed me to her breast, and warned me of the dangers of the waters, for she knew no other,” […]
June 16, 2004
African-American
Black Biography Project Opens the Pages of History
Black Biography Project Opens the Pages of HistoryBOSTON History has not been good to Onesimus. As smallpox raged across Boston in 1721, the prominent Boston minister Cotton Mather suggested “ye Method of Inoculation” that he had learned from Onesimus, his former slave: Deliberately infect healthy people to boost their immunity. Although the first mass inoculation […]
June 16, 2004
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Students
Shut Out Of the System
Shut Out Of the System As competition increases for slots at UC-Berkeley, admission offers to minority students continue to declineBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.As University of California officials announced admissions results for the fall, it appeared that increasing competition for seats at the university, rising tuition costs, and continued controversy over the role of race in […]
June 2, 2004
Leadership & Policy
NAFEO Board Cites Need to Move in ‘Another Direction’
NAFEO Board Cites Need to Move in ‘Another Direction’Humphries out; Washington-based attorney to serve as interim presidentBy Cassie ChewWASHINGTONCiting the need to “move into another direction with its leadership,” the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), at an April 26 board meeting, requested that its top officer, Dr. Frederick S. Humphries, step […]
May 19, 2004
African-American
Disciplined Consequences of Brown
Disciplined Consequences of BrownThe desegregation that began in Clarendon, S.C., came to my hometown of Sumter back in 1965, some 11 years after the celebrated Brown decision. My sense of surprise, anxiety and anticipation when informed that I would be among the handful of students chosen to undertake this noble experiment was understandably significant.I didn’t […]
May 19, 2004
Faculty & Staff
Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions
Africanizing Our Historically Black Institutions“The Blacker the College the Sweeter the Knowledge,” is a common saying heard among students who attend Black institutions, as well as many proud alumni. These institutions have, from their inception, served a unique mission in educating the masses of Black folk, thus creating the Black middle class. They have done […]
May 5, 2004
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2004 Commencement Speakers
2004 Commencement Speakers•Ashland University (Ohio)  Robert C. Springer  Colonel, United States Marine Corps, retired NASA astronaut director  •Bennett College (N.C.) Gwendolyn E. Boyd National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.  •Bucknell University (Pa.)  Ralph Nader  Consumer advocate, lawyer, author and presidential candidate  •California State University – Fullerton  Susan Elizabeth George  Educator, novelist and founder of the […]
May 5, 2004
African-American
Arkansas State University Group Traces Graves at Cemeteries
Arkansas State University  Group Traces Graves at CemeteriesTULOT, Ark.Descendants of Black sharecroppers in Poinsett County are attempting to get two cemeteries listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Dr. Julie Morrow, archaeologist at the Arkansas State University-Jonesboro station of the Arkansas Archaeological Survey, and eight of her archaeology and geology students traced grave sites at […]
May 5, 2004
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