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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Book Casts Doubts on Parts of 18th-Century Slave Narrative
Olaudah Equiano wrote with vivid detail of life as human cargo — the foul smells aboard the slave ship that
October 5, 2005
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Black Activists Upset Over King Tut Portraits
Black activists say computer-generated portraits of King Tut that are scheduled to go on display at a museum exhibit…
September 27, 2005
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HBCUs Reach Out
It had not occurred to Lorena Sajardo to consider Texas Southern University as a possible college until
September 21, 2005
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Faculty & Staff
An Academic Partnership
Black and Hispanic studies are separate fields at most universities
September 21, 2005
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Bush Aides Meet at White House With Black Leaders
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and a number of President Bush’s top advisers met earlier this
September 21, 2005
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Book Casts Doubts on Parts of 18th-century Slave Narrative
Olaudah Equiano wrote with vivid detail of life as human cargo — the foul smells aboard the slave ship…
September 20, 2005
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U. Va. President Addresses Racial Incidents
In a rare move, University of Virginia President John T. Casteen III summoned students to the Rotunda — the heart of the historic campus in Charlottesville
September 19, 2005
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Vice Provost Aims to Open Doors for Minorities at University of Texas
It’s the little things that make history major Brandelyn Franks feel uncomfortable at the University of Texas at Austin…
September 12, 2005
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Blacks Remain an Extreme Minority at UC Campuses
James Marshall didn’t expect it would be easy, being one of just a handful of Black students at the University of California, Berkeley’s, high-ranking business school.
September 11, 2005
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