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TheView from Topeka

TheView from TopekaBy Kendra HamiltonIt’s a little-known fact, but, 50 years ago, the junior high and high schools of Topeka, Kan., were integrated — though in name only. Fear was the order of the day at the high school, where an African American assistant superintendent by the name of Harrison Caldwell roamed the halls as […]

May 19, 2004

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The Scholar-Activists of Brown

The Scholar-Activists of BrownScholars reflect on the intellectual contributions to the historic desegregation case When asked by Thurgood Marshall during the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case to join a team of scholars to answer questions posed by the U.S. Supreme Court about the intent of the framers of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, […]

May 19, 2004

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Sen. Clinton Accuses Bush of ‘Walking Away’ From Goals of Brown

Sen. Clinton Accuses Bush of ‘Walking Away’ From Goals of BrownDETROIT The Bush administration has abandoned the hopes for progress created by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling declaring racial segregation illegal in public schools, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says. The New York Democrat told an NAACP fund-raising dinner in April that President Bush […]

May 19, 2004

HBCUs

Contemplating Brown: Conversations Across Generations

Contemplating Brown: Conversations Across GenerationsN.C. symposium draws over 400 to discuss landmark ruling By Eleanor Lee YatesDURHAM, N.C.When noted historian Dr. John Hope Franklin looks back at the 50 years since the Brown v. Board of Education decision, he says he thinks of the heroism of the plaintiff parents along with their attorneys. Thurgood Marshall, […]

May 19, 2004

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Brown at 50: Keeping Promises

Brown at 50: Keeping PromisesCall me a curmudgeon, but I’m skeptical when everyone celebrates — especially if we applaud civil rights advances that have been hard-fought and may not yet be fully secured. As virtually without exception we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, I wonder […]

May 19, 2004

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Programming for Diversity

Programming for DiversityAuburn computer scientist writes program to ease admissions processIt has not come as a surprise to Dr. Juan Gilbert, an assistant professor in computer science at Auburn University, that some highly selective colleges and universities would experience significant cost increases to implement admissions systems to comply with last summer’s U.S. Supreme Court decisions […]

May 5, 2004

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2004 Commencement Speakers

2004 Commencement Speakers•Ashland University (Ohio)  Robert C. Springer  Colonel, United States Marine Corps, retired NASA astronaut director  •Bennett College (N.C.) Gwendolyn E. Boyd National President of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.  •Bucknell University (Pa.)  Ralph Nader  Consumer advocate, lawyer, author and presidential candidate  •California State University – Fullerton  Susan Elizabeth George  Educator, novelist and founder of the […]

May 5, 2004

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Judge Rules Against Petition Drive Aimed at Ending Affirmative Action

Judge Rules Against Petition Drive Aimed at Ending Affirmative ActionLANSING, Mich.A state board should not have approved a petition circulated by a group trying to end affirmative action at Michigan public universities and other public agencies, a judge ruled. The decision, handed down in late March by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Paula Manderfield, could […]

April 21, 2004

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Judge Rules Against Petition Drive Aimed at Ending Affirmative Action

Judge Rules Against Petition Drive Aimed at Ending Affirmative ActionLANSING, Mich.A state board should not have approved a petition circulated by a group trying to end affirmative action at Michigan public universities and other public agencies, a judge ruled. The decision, handed down in late March by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Paula Manderfield, could […]

April 21, 2004

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Civil Rights Milestones Offer Lessons

Civil Rights Milestones Offer LessonsThe landmark legal decision, Brown v. Board of Education, was rendered on May 17, 1954. Fifty years later, campuses and communities are commemorating the decision and its impact on contemporary life. The Harvard legal scholar, Charles Ogletree, has published a riveting book of his reflections, a government commission is staging a […]

April 7, 2004

HBCUs

More Than Child’s Play

More Than Child’s PlayFor Dr. Sabrina Thomas, dolls are not just child’s play. In fact, they are the subject of her research, which recently landed her a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thomas, an assistant professor of family and consumer sciences at North Carolina Central University, was awarded the grant to […]

March 24, 2004

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Making STEM Careers More Accessible

Making STEM Careers More AccessibleIn its July 2003 publication of Women, Minorities and Persons With Disabilities in Science and Engineering, the National Science Foundation (NSF) reports that high-school completion and college enrollment among African Americans and Hispanics continues to increase. NSF goes further to convey that these groups have shown an upward trend in completion […]

March 10, 2004