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Taking Jim Crow out of uniform: A. Philip Randolph and the desegregation of the U.S. military – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 Years

Nearly fifty years ago, during his reelection campaign, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 ordering the “equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services.”

July 11, 2007

House Approves Funding For Minority-Serving Colleges, Pell Grant Over Veto Threat

Defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill to cut subsidies to student loan providers and use the proceeds to reduce interest rates and provide more money for Pell Grants and minority-serving colleges.

July 11, 2007

Best and Brightest’ Scholar’s Promising Future Ends Tragically

Devin Gaines, who became one of the University of Connecticut’s most noteworthy 2007 alumni when he graduated with five degrees in five years, died early Tuesday morning.

July 11, 2007

Colleges Use Courts To Keep Agents, Boosters Away From Student-Athletes

The NCAA announced Wednesday that the Oklahoma Sooners eight wins from the 2005 season would be invalidated because two players employed by a booster received pay for jobs they didn’t actually work. The athletics department will face other athletic sanctions as well. States and colleges, trying to avoid situations like that, are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

July 11, 2007

Encyclopedia of African-American Education. – book reviews

This unique, well-organized and well documented work is an essential source about African American education that fills a noticeable gap in resources in this area. It brings together a collection of laws, biographies, concepts, journals, movements, organizations, and institutions from varied sources and presents them in a single, useful volume.

July 11, 2007

A suggestion for college coaches: teach by example

While most will remember the 1997 National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) men’s basketball Final Four Tournament for the University of Arizona’s improbable run to a national championship, the most significant collegiate sports event of that particular weekend occurred off the court.

July 11, 2007

Continuing a tradition of giving: new scholarship honors the legacy of a teacher who did more than instruct – Vernell A. Lillie Endowed Scholarship honoring Dr. Vernell A. Lilli

Only a few decades ago, according to Dr. Ruth Simmons, president of Smith College, looking out for African American youth was a challenge more readily accepted by the African American community, at large – and particularly by African American teachers.

July 11, 2007

Cause for Action

Advocates for a more inclusive legal profession are worried about the decline in Black law student enrollment

July 11, 2007

A Conversation With Cynthia E. Nance

Cynthia E. Nance was appointed last year as dean of the University of Arkansas School of Law, joining a small but elite club of Black law school deans.

July 11, 2007

Freedom to Choose

Freedom to Choose I agree with some parts of Dr. Emmett Gill Jr.’s article (see “The Prevalence of Black Females in College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion,” May 31) but also disagree with some. His facts are very true about female racial un-balance among university athletes, but beyond that, the story has no merit. Forcing […]

July 11, 2007

Breaking the Stereotype

Breaking the Stereotype As a coach at a large, racially diverse suburban public high school, the females in our sports program mirror this trend (see “The Prevalence of Black Females in College Sports: It’s Just An Illusion,” May 31). Basketball, track and cheerleading are almost exclusively African-American, while our other 10 girls’ sports teams are […]

July 11, 2007

Debating the Relevance of Black Greek-Letter Organizations

Debating the Relevance of Black Greek-Letter Organizations The question about whether BGLOs are relevant or not could also be applied to other traditional Black organizations, i.e., the NAACP and the National Urban League, (see “Broken Bonds: Are Black Greek Organizations Making Themselves Irrelevant?” June 14). While these organizations are steeped in history, you would be […]

July 11, 2007

Leading the Way on Diversity

Leading the Way on Diversity Your excellent article (see “Laying Out a Blueprint for Diversity,” June 14) failed to mention that 1) Professor Gary A. Bowden is a professor of the practice in the Architecture Program of the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Maryland, and 2) that the diversity initiative which Bowden so […]

July 11, 2007

Education Department, Congress Has Sights Trained

For low-income students, paying for college is hard enough without having to repeat courses.

July 11, 2007

‘Tomb Raiders’

Yale’s ultra-secret Skull and Bones Society is believed to possess the skull of legendary Apache chief Geronimo.

July 11, 2007

Zimbabwean President Mugabe Faces Rebukes, Retraction of Honorary Degrees

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe — once honored as one of the world’s leading human rights activists by universities in the United States and England — is now being reprimanded in those countries as one of the world’s worst human rights villains.

July 11, 2007

States and colleges are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

States and colleges are increasingly turning to the courts to help protect the integrity of big-time college athletics.

July 11, 2007

Cause for Action

Advocates for a more inclusive legal profession are worried about the decline in Black law student enrollment

July 11, 2007