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Scholar and athlete: in the Arthur Ashe Jr. mold – James Brown, ex-basketball player and TV sports broadcaster – Interview

At the age of 45, Fox TV sports broadcaster James Brown’s athletic and television career has included the stuff of which dream’s are made.

June 16, 2007

Sports, competition and society – athletic and academic competition seen as outcome of a competitive society

Sixty-four teams from historically Black colleges and universities competed on the basis of their knowledge at the Honda Campus All-Star Classic in Orlando FL. The final four competition was as intense as the basketball classic, and Black America’s best and brightest strutted their intellectual stuff as confidently as star basketball players strut their gamesmanship.

June 16, 2007

After Hopwood – ‘Affirmative Consideration’ Advocated to Promote Diversity

Outlining what he calls “affirmative consideration,” Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick is calling for a new approach to undo past discrimination.

June 16, 2007

African-American

A piece of history – Clark Atlanta University Buys Historic Paschal’s Hotel-Restaurant

ATLANTA In one transaction, Clark Atlanta University has acquired a legendary Black business, a new dormitory and a world-class chicken recipe.

June 16, 2007

Sexual harassment’s persistent patterns examined in videoconference

Washington With the national consciousness about sexual harassment at an all-time high, the rules about acceptable — and legal — behavior between the sexes are coming into focus.

June 16, 2007

Days of Grace. – book reviews

Days of Grace, Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad, One world-Ballantine Books, 1996, $7.99 (softcover).

June 16, 2007

‘Feel good history’: scholars debate Afrocentrism

One of the more controversial debates now going on in intellectual circles is over Afrocentrism, a movement that argues that traditional history has undervalued the contributions of Black Africa to ancient Greek and Western thought. At the center of the debate are Afrocentrists and those attacking them, most recently Mary Lefkowitz, who wrote “Not Out of Africa.”

June 16, 2007

1996 Ad

Najuma Fletcher and Nicola Martial have travelled far since their days as aspiring young female athletes in Guyana, South America. Today both are looking forward to graduating — Fletcher with a B.S. degree in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and Martial with a B.A. degree in political science from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln And both look forward to the summer Olympic games in Atlanta.

June 16, 2007

Marvelous Morrison – Toni Morrison – Award-Winning Author Talks About the Future From Some Place in Time

Award-winning Author Talks About the Future From Some Place in Time.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Correcting the inequities of the past – Makaziwe Phulma Mandela, anthropologist, educator and daughter of South African President Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela – Interview – Cover Story

Before embarking on a tour of historically Black colleges and universities, Dr. Makaziwe Phumla Mandela, daughter of South African President Nelson Mandela, stopped by the offices of Black Issues in Higher Education to discuss a wide range of issues facing higher education in the new South Africa.

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Mfume: ‘it’s all right now to come back home.’ – Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president, views on role of youth in civil rights struggles

Winston-salem, NC The nation’s Colleges will be the incubators for new soldiers in America’s civil rights struggle, Kweisi Mfume told a group of students.

June 16, 2007

Coming back: NAACP wants more of a campus presence – participation of youth

Orange, CA To tap America’s youthful energy, the NAACP might hire an administrator for programs on college campuses nationwide, said the chairperson of the organization’s board of directors.

June 16, 2007

Forging partnerships: churches, schools & government come together for a common cause – helping children and their schools

Lawrence, MA Led by a group of United Methodist churches and agencies in New England, religious and community leaders joined forces with the U.S. Department of Education in what is considered an unprecedented national coalition on public school education.

June 16, 2007

An era endangered: graduate fellowships for minorities in jeopardy

Budget cuts are drying up the flow of Department of Education funding for graduate student fellowships.

June 16, 2007

Making of the Chicano movement revisited – lessons from the Chicano movement of 1968 – Column

Twenty-eight years ago, on March 3, 1968, more than a thousand Mexican-American students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School and marched through the streets of East Los Angeles, California. Later in the day, several thousand more of them walked out of five other predominantly Mexican-American high schools — and, by day’s end, more than 10,000 had joined the strike.

June 16, 2007

Texas ruling may dismantle affirmative action – ruling on preferred treatment of minority for college admission

Austin, TX In a decision that could dismantle 20 years of affirmative action, a federal appeals court has ruled that the University of Texas should not have given preferred treatment to minorities admitted to its School of Law.

June 16, 2007

Lulling educators into a false sense of satisfaction – debate over effectiveness of public schools in ‘The Manufactured Crisis’ by David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle

The Manufactured Crisis, David C. Berliner and Bruce J. Biddle, Addison-Wesley, 1995. $25.00 (hardcover)

June 16, 2007

Leadership & Policy

New community college liaison to ED – appointment of Jacqueline E. Woods to a Department of Eduction post

Jacqueline E. Woods, the vice chancellor for external affairs at City Colleges of Chicago and a former American Association of Community Colleges staff member, will become the second community college liason to the Department of Education, U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley announced last week.

June 16, 2007