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Majority Latino South Texas Town Abolishes Decades-old Segregation
A South Texas town has abolished an anti-Hispanic segregation law more than seven decades after it was enacted.
May 13, 2008
Latinx
Arkansas Organization Moves to Deny Benefits to Undocumented
The Arkansas attorney general’s office cleared the way on last Wednesday for supporters of a ballot measure requiring government agencies to verify all those seeking public benefits in the state are legal U.S. residents to begin gathering signatures.
May 13, 2008
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Literary Scholar Indicts Some Black Thinkers for Shallow Works
In his new book Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era, Dr. Houston A. Baker Jr., a leading scholar in African-American and American literature, takes a number of well-known Black intellectuals to task for published works that he deems as either lacking in substance or ideologically detrimental to Black American interests.
May 13, 2008
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African-American
Literary Scholar Indicts Some Black Thinkers for Shallow Works
Diverse: What led you as a literary scholar to write Betrayal? HB: The motivation was, as interesting as it may seem now more than 20 years down the line, the culture wars that were launched by neoconservatives and the think tanks that support their point of view in the United States back in the late […]
May 13, 2008
Community Colleges
Undocumented Students To Be Denied Admission To N.C. Community Colleges
Upon the advice of the state attorney general’s office, the North Carolina Community College system will no longer admit undocumented students into degree-granting programs.
May 13, 2008
Community Colleges
Online System to Help Pennsylvania Students Transfer College Credits to Participating Schools
Pennsylvania’s massive pool of potential college transfer students now have a system that makes the transfer process easier, less time-consuming, and more affordable.
May 13, 2008
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Federal Judge OKs $4M Settlement in Lawsuit Alleging S.C. School Helped Former Professor in Scam
A U.S. judge has approved a nearly $4 million agreement to settle allegations that Charleston Southern University helped a former professor swindle investors out of tens of millions of dollars, according to court documents.
May 13, 2008
Opinion
Good health as a priority in the black community
If you don’t have your health then you don’t have anything is an expression that I have heard for many years.  As I grow closer to eating free in some restaurants, I am paying closer attention.  Reports suggest that black people get sick more often and die sooner.  While some would groan, I think it […]
May 12, 2008
HBCUs
Texas Southern Implements New Selective Admissions Policy
Texas Southern University’s Board of Regents ended the university’s long-standing open admissions policy with a unanimous vote, at the urging of the university’s new president John Rudley.
May 12, 2008
Community Colleges
US Congress Moving To Expand Veterans’ College Benefits
Congressional Democrats are pushing what could become the most dramatic expansion of college aid for military veterans since World War II, with a bill they hope will buoy them this U.S. election season and become an albatross for Republicans.
May 12, 2008
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Student Research Becomes Law
What began as a research project to increase hot water efficiency by students at Winston-Salem State University has emerged as legislation that could save North Carolinians millions in water bills.
May 12, 2008
Students
Va. Expands Program to Improve Diversity Among Community College Faculty
The 23-school Virginia community college system has announced an expansion of its Chancellor’s Graduate Student Fellowship program to enhance the initiative’s capacity to increase faculty diversity.
May 12, 2008
Opinion
In Memory of One Black Male Educator
Hello. My name is Emmett L. Gill, Jr., and I am an assistant professor at the Rutgers University School of Social Work. I might be what you consider a non-traditional academic – I study the intersection between sports and society, I am relatively young (below 40 in dog years), and I am a black male. […]
May 11, 2008
Students
2008 Valedictorian A Different Kind Of “Morehouse Man”
From his first day at Morehouse College, the country’s only institution of higher learning dedicated to the education of Black men, Joshua Packwood has been a standout.
May 11, 2008
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Perspectives: True Access to American Colleges & Universities
The federal government has a huge role to play in making college accessible and affordable. How about providing financial incentives to those institutions that are aggressively enrolling low-income students – the kind of students ever more present in the educational pipeline? What they should not do is impose spending rates on college endowments, as was proposed recently.
May 11, 2008
STEM
New Reports Illustrate Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice System
Marking the 35th anniversary of New York’s controversial Rockefeller drug laws, the tough mandatory minimum sentencing laws for drug offenders, three new reports were issued by the Human Rights Watch (HRW), The Sentencing Project (TSP) and the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) that highlight the alarming racial disparities that exist in drug-related arrest and imprisonment.
May 8, 2008
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Arkansas Organization Moves Forward With Measure to Deny Undocumented Immigrants Public Benefits
The Arkansas attorney general’s office cleared the way on Wednesday for supporters of a ballot measure requiring government agencies to verify all those seeking public benefits in the state are legal U.S. residents to begin gathering signatures.
May 8, 2008
Students
Perspectives: A2MEND Addressing Issues Facing Black Males in Higher Education
Since its founding in 2005, the African American Male Education Network and Development (A2MEND) organization has grown from an organization that identified the main component of their mission to “create an affirming academic and professional environment for African-Americans,” to an organization that is actively achieving this mission through providing workshops and presentations throughout California and the United States.
May 7, 2008
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