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50 Years Later:

50 Years Later:Can current education policy finish the work started with Brown?By Karin ChenowethBlack Issues In Higher Education first started publishing a year after the 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report shocked many into taking seriously the sorry nature of elementary and secondary education in this country. The report’s dire warnings of a “rising tide […]

June 16, 2004

Latinx

‘Change Takes Time’

‘Change Takes Time’While the names have changed — and some of the laws — many age-old debates in higher education have remained the same over the past 20 yearsBy Charles DervaricsIn the 1980s, a Republican president led a defense build-up in response to foreign crises, and his education secretary chided the establishment on school reform. […]

June 16, 2004

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Reducing Black-White Test Score Gap Begins With Early Verbal Interaction at Home

Reducing Black-White Test Score Gap Begins With Early Verbal Interaction at HomeUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. In 2003 the Supreme Court ruled in support of affirmative action in college admissions, but their ruling suggested that affirmative action should become unnecessary in the next 25 years. However, a large test score gap between Black and White students indicates […]

June 16, 2004

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Supreme Court Justice Thomas Tells Law School Graduates to Make Decisions by Principle

Supreme Court Justice Thomas Tells Law School Graduates to Make Decisions by PrincipleYPSILANTI, Mich. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told students graduating from Ave Maria School of Law last month to make decisions by principle first and never to quit. In a commencement speech for the conservative Catholic school, Thomas said his initial difficulty […]

June 16, 2004

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Brown Anniversary Speakers Say Anger Needed in Debate Over Education

Brown Anniversary Speakers Say Anger Needed in Debate Over EducationTOPEKA, Kan. Activists need to be as angry now about inadequate public schools as they were during the 1960s about Blacks being denied their civil rights, speakers at an NAACP conference on education said last month.Kweisi Mfume, NAACP president and chief executive officer, told conference participants […]

June 16, 2004

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Attorney to Appeal Ruling in Mississippi College Desegregation Case

Attorney to Appeal Ruling in Mississippi College Desegregation CaseJACKSON, Miss. Mississippi’s long-running college desegregation case is once again headed to the nation’s highest court. In January, a federal appeals court upheld a $503 million settlement in the desegregation case that stems from a lawsuit accusing Mississippi of neglecting its historically Black universities for decades (see […]

June 16, 2004

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Conservative Scholars Ponder K-12 Education

Conservative Scholars Ponder K-12 EducationConference highlights include discussions of public school reform, closing racial achievement gapBy Ronald RoachNEW YORKDuring the week the nation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case, more than 200 conservative scholars and education officials gathered in New York […]

June 16, 2004

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A Delayed Victory

A Delayed VictorySouthern University awards student protesters honorary degrees nearly 50 years after expulsionBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.Forty-four years after expelling them for participating in sit-ins at three racially segregated restaurants, Southern University invited the 16 former students back to the historically Black campus to receive honorary degrees at its spring commencement.During the ceremony last […]

June 16, 2004

Students

Shut Out Of the System

Shut Out Of the System As competition increases for slots at UC-Berkeley, admission offers to minority students continue to declineBy Pamela BurdmanBERKELEY, Calif.As University of California officials announced admissions results for the fall, it appeared that increasing competition for seats at the university, rising tuition costs, and continued controversy over the role of race in […]

June 2, 2004

Faculty & Staff

A Case in Point

A Case in PointSimple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for EqualityBy Richard Kluger, Vintage Books, April 2004, 865 pp., $24.00, trade paperback, 1-4000-3061-7Simple Justice is described as the definitive history of the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in […]

May 19, 2004

HBCUs

Commemorating Brown

Commemorating BrownThis is a list of events from selected institutions leading up to the 50th anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education• Bucknell University 12/03-4/04: “Brown at 50,” a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision•Harvard University Law School 4/13/04: panel discussion: Reflections on the Jurisprudence of Justice Thurgood Marshall: A View from […]

May 19, 2004

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Wisdom, Hindsight Render Brown’s Goals ‘Incomplete’

Wisdom, Hindsight Render Brown’s Goals ‘Incomplete’Those of us who remember what it was like before and after the Brown v. Board of Education decision know that we underwent a process of change. We also know that we were profoundly affected by that change, even though we may not have realized it at the time. Brown […]

May 19, 2004