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Desperately Seeking Students

Desperately Seeking StudentsSeveral public flagships attempt to reverse disturbing declines in Black student college enrollment By Lydia LumAs high-school seniors begin to choose colleges in the coming months, officials at many public flagships nervously hope that their renewed outreach to Black students reverses steep and disappointing enrollment drops. Those declines, some of them by double-digit […]

March 23, 2005

African-American

On the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

On the Frontline of the HIV/AIDS EpidemicWith infection rates still escalating among African Americans, researchers, scholars and activists wonder if the battle is a losing oneBy B. Denise HawkinsMost days, Cynthia Davis is an exasperated trooper who can always be found teaching and preaching from the frontline of the AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles. The […]

March 23, 2005

African-American

UCLA Study: Growing Mismatch Between African Americans

UCLA Study: Growing Mismatch Between African AmericansAnd Job Locations Increases Racial Inequality LOS ANGELESA new study conducted by a UCLA researcher and published by the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program indicates that the distance between African Americans and the location of employment opportunities has increased over the last several decades, exacerbating racial inequality in major […]

March 23, 2005

African-American

Record Number of Students Apply to University of California Schools

Record Number of Students Apply to University of California SchoolsAmerican Indians only minority group to see applications fall in 2004BERKELEY, Calif. The number of students who want to get into the University of California topped 100,000 for the first time this year, including nearly 9,000 students seeking one of the 1,000 spots at the new […]

February 23, 2005

African-American

American Students Launch 10-Week Study

American Students Launch 10-Week Study Of Cuba Under New U.S. RegulationsHAVANA When Veronica Sanchez’s parents found out she was going to Cuba for 10 weeks, they “freaked out” and worried she would become a communist, the 19-year-old Mexican-American student said. “My dad really has it in his head that I’m never going to go back […]

February 23, 2005

African-American

Documenting Violence in the ‘Hood’

Documenting Violence in the ‘Hood’ Claflin University student receives coveted Sundance award for short filmBy Lelita CannonORANGEBURG, S.C.Eighteen-year-old Daniel Howard received the phone call of a lifetime in December. It was a delegate from the Sundance Film Festival. The representative told him that his film, “Bullets in the Hood: A Bed-Stuy Story,” which he directed […]

February 23, 2005

African-American

Narratives of Freedom

Narratives of FreedomBefore His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America’s First Civil Rights MartyrBy Ben GreenUniversity Press of Florida, 2005320 pp., $19.95 paperback ISBN: 081302837X Before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached from his pulpit in Montgomery, before Rosa Parks’ famous bus ride, a man named Harry T. Moore toiled in Jim […]

February 9, 2005

African-American

Africana.com Web Site Announces its Closure

Africana.com Web Site Announces its ClosureSTERLING, Va.Founded by Harvard professor Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Princeton University professor Dr. Anthony Appiah, the Africana.com news and feature Web site on African-American life and culture was to formally close at the end of January, according to the Web site. “After 6 years, Africana.com is shutting its […]

February 9, 2005

African-American

The Niagara Movement’s Powerful Fruit — 100 Years of Protest

The Niagara Movement’s Powerful Fruit — 100 Years of ProtestBy Julianne MalveauxThe Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASAALH) was founded 90 years ago on Sept. 9, 1915. It’s founder, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, author of the scathing masterpiece, The Miseducation of the Negro (1933), was also the founder of Negro […]

February 9, 2005

African-American

Sharing Some of the Blame

Sharing Some of the BlameThis letter is a response to the critique offered by Dr. Gerald E. Matthews to Dr. Bill Cosby’s comments and remarks about low-income African Americans (see Black Issues, Dec. 30, 2004). I am not an African American of wealth, but I did emerge from a childhood of poverty to my present […]

January 26, 2005

African-American

Vanishing Black College Students?

Vanishing Black College Students? A young woman at my church confided in me that she dreams of enlisting in the military. Because we were in church, I simply shuddered and held my tongue, but my face must have told her what I would have liked to say. We talked a few minutes and she shared […]

January 12, 2005

Faculty & Staff

MUSIC: Teresa L. Reed

MUSICMaking A Joyful NoiseTeresa L. ReedTitle: Associate Professor of Music Theory and Literature and Director, African American Studies Program, University of TulsaEducation: Ph.D., Music Theory, Indiana University; M.M., Music Theory, University of Tulsa; B.A., Music, Valparaiso UniversityAge: 40 Her friends, colleagues and even the critics agree: Dr. Teresa L. Reed is making a joyful noise […]

January 12, 2005

Students

HISTORY: Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar

HISTORYFrom Black Power to Hip-HopJeffrey O.G. OgbarTitle: Associate Professor of History andDirector, Institute for African American Studies, University of ConnecticutEducation: Ph.D., History, Indiana University; M.A., History, Indiana University; B.A., History, Morehouse CollegeAge: 35 While history for most conjures up images of places and experiences far removed, for Dr. Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, the field provides a […]

January 12, 2005

African-American

Standout Scholars

Standout ScholarsYoung, gifted and black, scholars across the nation light pathways to the pursuit of academic excellenceIsolation, lack of adequate mentorship and vague, or not so vague, suggestions that the research topics African American scholars pursue are somehow not worthy of academic consideration are only a few of the horrors young scholars can encounter along […]

January 12, 2005

African-American

Report: High School Rigor Essential for Students of Color

Report: High School Rigor Essential for Students of ColorBy Charles DervaricsA new study on the link between high school coursework and postsecondary success paints a challenging picture for education advocates: African Americans can succeed in rigorous courses, but too few get the opportunity.The report from Achieve Inc., finds that few states set high curricula and […]

January 12, 2005

African-American

No Laughing Matter

No Laughing MatterComedian, actor and philanthropist Bill Cosby made headlines earlier this year, and not for a starring role in a new TV show or because of a multimillion-dollar gift to a college or university, but for his comments surrounding low-income African Americans at an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board […]

December 29, 2004

African-American

The Soul of David Levering Lewis

The Soul of David Levering LewisAward-Winning Scholar Contemporizes Black Intellectual TraditionBy Ronald Roach At the 20th anniversary gala of Black Issues In Higher Education this past June, Dr. David Levering Lewis was honored with an inaugural John Hope Franklin Distinguished Contributor to Higher Education award. Lewis’ prize-winning scholarship played no small part in his selection […]

December 29, 2004

African-American

New Book Scouts Spots Where Langston Hughes Spent Youth

New Book Scouts Spots Where Langston Hughes Spent YouthLAWRENCE, Kan.While researching a new book identifying Lawrence locations significant in the life of Langston Hughes, Dr. Denise Low and T.F. Pecore Weso made an interesting discovery. “Every place in Lawrence that Langston Hughes mentioned, or his biographers mentioned, that a racial injustice occurred to him is […]

December 29, 2004