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Congressman Urges NBA To Drop Age Minimum

A lawmaker urged the National Basketball Association (NBA) on Wednesday to repeal its requirement that players be at least 19 years old and a year out of high school before entering the league, calling the restriction unfair.

June 4, 2009

Studies Offer Conflicting Results On ‘Obama Effect’

Could merely knowing that a Black man has been elected president of the United States raise the scores of Blacks on standardized tests and shrink the unrelenting and formidable achievement gap?

June 3, 2009

National Immigration Forum Launches New Immigration Reform Campaign

The National Immigration Forum, an immigration advocacy organization, along with a diverse coalition of labor union leaders, religious groups and civil rights organizations is challenging President Barack Obama to expeditiously pass immigration reform legislation with the launch of a new immigration reform campaign.

June 3, 2009

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Report Scrutinizes Colleges With Low Graduation Rates, Including MSIs

Less than 60 percent of new students graduate from the nation’s four-year colleges and universities within six years, according to a new study, and the rate is even lower at most of the historically Black and Hispanic-serving institutions included in the study.

June 2, 2009

Perspectives: Sotomayor Falls in Journalism’s Blind Spot

The president’s nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court has come during a most awkward time in the history of U.S. journalism, which many analysts claim is in serious decline, if not on life support.

June 2, 2009

It is High Time for a Black Woman on the High Court

“Make me do it.” -Barack Hussein Obama The relevance of the above challenge issued by then-Senator Barack Obama will soon become obvious. For now, let me first congratulate Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the soon-to-be vacant seat of retiring high court Associate Justice David Souter. Obama’s historic nomination of the first Latina to the […]

June 1, 2009

Sonia Sotomayor: A Fabulous Choice For The Supreme Court

Even before she was considered to be the front runner as the next Supreme Court Justice, there were rumblings from political conservatives about the “problems” with Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Now that she has been officially nominated by President Obama, certain segments of the right have come out swinging and kicking. One could argue that they are fouling […]

June 1, 2009

Another ‘Black Man Did It’ Hoax Sparks Outrage

It’s an old lie, claiming that “The Black Man Did It.”

June 1, 2009

Meet the Ashe Scholars

Yolanda Odenyo has excelled both academically and athletically and brought a global perspective to the Oklahoma State University women’s soccer team.

June 1, 2009

Texas Lawmakers Approve Changing Top 10 Percent Law

Texas lawmakers gave final approval Saturday to a bill scaling back the law allowing automatic college admissions for students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class.

June 1, 2009

Historian Ivan Van Sertima Dies

Ivan Van Sertima, the Guyanese-born historian who gained global renown with his scholarship showing African presence in the Americas before Columbus, has died. Van Sertima’s most famous work was “They Came Before Columbus,” which showed African influences in Central and South America before the arrival of Europeans. Read more in the Black Star […]

June 1, 2009

Leadership & Policy

University of Kansas Names First Woman, First Black Chancellor

Dr. Bernadette Gray-Little, a top University of North Carolina official, will become the first female and first Black chancellor at the University of Kansas.

May 31, 2009

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Haskell Indian Nations University Commemorates 125th Anniversary, Recognizes Painful History

Haskell Indian Nations University turns 125 this year. The university is recognizing its historical anniversary with a yearlong series of events officials are referring to as a commemoration rather than a celebration.

May 31, 2009

Ronald Takaki, Ethnic Studies Pioneer, Dies

Dr. Ronald Takaki, a pioneer in the field of ethnic studies who taught the University of California system’s first Black history course, has died.

May 31, 2009

NCAA Women of Color Symposium Launches Recruitment and Retention Strategy Campaign

A recent NCAA report showed that ethnic minority women make up only 1.6 percent of athletic directors at institutions involved in intercollegiate athletics at the Division I, II and III levels – including Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Drop HBCUs from the equation and the rate falls under 1 percent.

May 28, 2009

Hispanic Theologian Chosen for Vatican Ambassador

A Hispanic Roman Catholic theologian who was an adviser to Barack Obama’sBarack Obama’s -Search using: · News, Most Recent 60 Days presidential campaign will be nominated to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, the White House announced Wednesday.

May 28, 2009

Reframing the School Safety Debate (Notes from AERA, Part 1)

Last month I participated in the 2009 American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting along with thousands of other educational researchers. Each year the meeting is an incredibly stimulating time for me, especially since it comes late in the academic year. One element of the meeting that always stimulates my own intellectual work is hearing […]

May 27, 2009

Are a Boy’s Chances Better at Becoming a Sports Star or a Doctor?

I often ask young children, especially boys, what they want to do when they reach adulthood. One of the most repeated answers is that they want to become professional athletes. The two primary sports that they have an interest in, and not to my surprise, are basketball and football. It seems that basketball almost has […]

May 27, 2009