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African-American

Ten myths, half-truths and misunderstandings about Black history

Black history may have seemed “lost, stolen or strayed” at one time, but since then much of the African American past has been rediscovered and reanalyzed.

June 15, 2007

At war, home and abroad – African Americans during the Second World War

Black Fire: The Making of An American Revolutionary, by Nelson Peery, New Press, New York, NY, 1994, $11.95 paper.

June 15, 2007

Recovering yesterday – collection and preservation of African American history

Today, celebrations of “Black History Month” stretch from Kwanzaa, through Martin Luther King’s birthday, through February, and sometimes through Malcolm X’s birthday in March. It is easy to forget that just thirty years ago some people wondered if there was enough Black history to even fill up a week. In 1968 a CBS television special, Black History Lost, Missing or Stolen?, captured the then-current feeling that no one knew, or had preserved, the true story of African American contributions to this society.

June 15, 2007

Black universities and colleges working toward environmental justice – environmental impacts of petro-chemical plants in Louisiana and other states

Poor people in an area dubbed “Cancer Alley,” located between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, had no explanation three years ago for what was making them sick.

June 15, 2007

Derailing student tracking: SCLC, others strive to eliminate educational channelling – Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Forty-two years after the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools, many classrooms are not yet fully integrated because of the academic performance of Black students and their perceived ability to learn.

June 15, 2007

Community Colleges

Seamless system – financial problem of public higher education in the US

WASHINGTON As funding problems persist, state legislators are looking to increase tuition and raise admissions standards at public four-year colleges, making community colleges the primary access to higher education, according to a new survey of state legislators released here this month.

June 15, 2007

Student-athletes at work: NCAA work rule will be ‘difficult to monitor.’ – National Collegiate Athletic Association

In a surprise development at its annual convention, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved new legislation allowing athletes to work part-time jobs during the school year.

June 15, 2007

A man and his cello – black cellist Dr. Ronald Crutcher

To Dr. Ronald Crutcher, musicians should do more than aim for Carnegie Hall. They should be working to “lift the human spirit” through their music, and they should be doing that in schools, nursing homes, prisons — anywhere they can find and develop an audience.

June 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

UDC cuts out athletics – The University of the District of Columbia

WASHINGTON, D.C. The University of the District of Columbia will eliminate its inter-collegiate athletics program in order to save money in its attempt to stay afloat despite drastic cuts in its budget.

June 15, 2007

Washington update

22 Black Colleges Risk Losing Student Loan Eligibility Status.

June 15, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Being presidential in dixie – African-Americans as presidents at traditionally white colleges

Black Academics Finding Fewer Barriers At Traditionally White Colleges.

June 15, 2007

River deep, mountain high: modern-day griots pass on ways to hurdle racism

I’ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation, by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Penguin Books (New York), 1995, 644 pp., $14.95 (U.S.), $19.99 (Canada) softcover.

June 15, 2007

African-American

Dorothy Porter Wesley: preserver of Black history – Afro-American librarian

The extraordinary career of Dorothy Porter Wesley spanned sixty-five years, from her appointment in 1930 as librarian at Howard University’s nascent Moorland Foundation, a Library of Negro Life, until her death on December 17, 1995. Through out this period she remained the quintessential librarian — a collector and dispenser of knowledge. She was an elder in the community of scholars who had experienced the continuum that is history and was a vast reservoir of wisdom, which she imparted to successive generations of students of Black history and culture.

June 15, 2007

Feb. 22 looms for Cal State Initiative – University of California, Berkley, and the affirmative action program – includes related article

With less than a month left in the battle to place a controversial anti-affirmative action item in the California general election, a critical moment may have slipped past affirmative action supporters.

June 15, 2007

Partners in peace: Palestinians to model college after Cal State – Stanislaus – California State University – Stanislaus

The California town of Turlock–home of California State University-Stanislaus (CSUS)–and the West Bank city of Jenin are far apart both geographically and politically.

June 15, 2007

The man who pulled – TV documentary on A. Philip Randolph, labor leader and Civil Rights activist – includes related article

It would be hard to overstate the importance of A. Philip Randolph to the last century of American history. It would also be hard to overstate the deep shadow into which his memory has faded.

June 15, 2007

Shutdown blues: between budget debate and blizzard, colleges take a double-barreled blast

Washington — Higher education found itself trapped-recently between conflicting air masses — an icy blast from a howling winter and the hot air of a fractious Congress-White House debate.

June 15, 2007

Lessons of tolerance: former Cherokee chief brings experience to Dartmouth College – Wilma Mankiller

Hanover, NH — In many ways, Wilma Mankiller seems out of place in New Hampshire, a state where 96 out of every 100 residents are white and which refuses to recognize the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

June 15, 2007