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Charges Against Gates Dropped
Cambridge officials announced Tuesday in a press release that a disorderly conduct charge against renowned Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. will be dropped, the Boston Herald reported.
July 21, 2009
African-American
John Brown Exhibit on Display at West Virginia University
Nineteenth century sketches depicting the trial and hanging of abolitionist John Brown, and the uniform of a Confederate militia commander who helped halt his Harpers Ferry insurrection are on display at West Virginia University.
July 16, 2009
African-American
Morgan State University Professor M.K. Asante discusses new film, The Black Candle
M.K. Asante, an awarding-winning poet, author and internationally acclaimed filmmaker, recently embarked on his most ambitious teaching assignment to date: educating the world about Kwanzaa.
July 13, 2009
Students
In Brief: Stories From Around the Academy
UNLV chancellor demoted; President Bill Clinton named honorary Phi Beta Sigma; Hampton names new provost; University of South Carolina trustee charged with bank fraud.
July 12, 2009
Faculty & Staff
SPECTRUM:A POINEER FOR AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
In 1978, Joe McDonald of the Confederated Salish Kootenai tribes dreamed of a decent building for the newly created Salish Kootenai College. At the time, classes were being held in an abandoned building on the Flathead Reservation in Montana.
July 8, 2009
Students
Black Newspaper in Boston Suspends Publication
An African-American newspaper that covered Boston’s busing riots of the 1970s, the fall of Black political leaders, and the rise of the state’s first Black governor, Deval Patrick, has suspended publication after 44 years and laid off its 12 employees.
July 8, 2009
African-American
Documentary on Controversial African Studies Scholar
This month on diverseeducation.com snippets of the film “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness,” which chronicles the life and career of the late Melville J. Herskovits, a pioneering American anthropologist of African studies, will be featured.
July 8, 2009
Students
Three Black Fraternities Unite With Big Brothers Big Sisters in a National Partnership
Three of the nation’s largest African-American fraternities – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc., and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. – have joined with the Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) organization to help Black boys succeed.
July 6, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Some Progress for Missouri University on Diversity; Agreement With Hispanic Board Signed
More than three years after being condemned by an independent auditor as one of the worst universities for faculty diversity and overall racial inclusivity the auditor had ever seen, the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) reports some improvement in its diversity profile.
June 24, 2009
African-American
Books By Martin Luther King Jr. To Be Republished
Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be published again under a deal with Beacon Press brokered by King’s youngest son, Dexter King.
June 23, 2009
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Students
Fellowship Program Honors Legacy of Late Scholar of the African Diaspora
Today, Michigan State University will recognize four graduate students chosen as TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship awardees for the 2009-10 academic year during a campus reception.
June 9, 2009
Faculty & Staff
Sun Ra Exhibit at UPenn Shows Jazz Pioneer’s Spacy Imagery
The late jazz musician and band leader Sun Ra told of having a mystical experience in his youth in which he was transported to Saturn and instructed to speak to the world in troubled times to come.
May 26, 2009
African-American
Voorhees College Names Romanian Student Valedictorian
Victorita Paun’s first name may mean “little victory,” but Saturday the Voorhees College co-ed will claim a big victory — being named the first non-Black valedictorian in the historically Black institution’s 112-year history.
May 7, 2009
Students
Civil Rights Pioneer: Education and Service Key to Ending Discrimination, Injustice
The arc of Cleveland Sellers Jr.’s life has taken him from rural South Carolina to the Ivy League, where he earned a master’s at Harvard University, through the civil rights movement into the first-ever campus shooting in the United States, to exile in Greensboro, N.C., and academia in Columbia then back home to the place where it all started — Denmark, S.C.
April 20, 2009
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Students
University of Central Arkansas Cancels Step Show Over Hazing
The University of Central Arkansas has canceled an annual step-dancing show that draws thousands from across the country amid allegations of hazing at the fraternity that organizes the event.
April 9, 2009
Students
University of New Hampshire Makes Progress in Increasing Diversity
After more than a decade spent recruiting and building a support base for minority students, the University of New Hampshire remains a very White school in a very White state.
April 8, 2009
Students
Scholars Discuss Black Power in the Age of Obama
The Black Power movement is not a vestige of the past, but a living didactical legacy that is as relevant now in the Obama era as it has ever been, said a group of scholars and activists during a two-day symposium dedicated to the impact of the Black Power movement on America.
March 31, 2009
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African-American
Artist Joseph Holston Depicts Underground Railroad in Most Recent Exhibit
Artist Joseph Holston is obsessed with color: deep blues complimented by rich yellows, dramatic splashes of crimson, bright orange and striking violets.
March 22, 2009
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