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The Strange Career Uncle Tom

The Strange Career Uncle TomOn the 150th anniversary of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, scholars reflect on the legacy of the groundbreaking novel and its author Harriet Beecher StoweUncle Tom. It’s one of the most inflammatory racial insults that a Black person can offer another. Not quite as powerful, or as controversial, as the […]

June 5, 2002

Morehouse to Benefit From Settlement Over Controversial Novel

Morehouse to Benefit From Settlement Over Controversial NovelATLANTAThe protectors of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind have dropped their yearlong battle to stop publication of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone, agreeing to an out-of-court settlement. Under the terms of the settlement, Randall’s publisher, Boston-based Houghton Mifflin, agreed to make an unspecified contribution to Morehouse […]

June 5, 2002

Florida County Settles Lawsuit on Election Day Violations

Florida County Settles Lawsuit on Election Day ViolationsTallahassee, Fla,A federal judge has approved a settlement between Leon County and the NAACP, co-counsel People for the American Way Foundation (PFAWF) and other civil rights organizations. The civil rights groups, representing thousands of citizens disenfranchised in the 2000 presidential election, sued Florida and individual counties, including Leon […]

June 5, 2002

Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore

Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore Speculation now on how justices will voteBy Erik LordsCINCINNATIMany legal experts across the nation agree that the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action case will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. But their opinions vary widely on how the high […]

June 5, 2002

Revisiting Some of History’s Most Controversial Figures

Revisiting Some of History’s Most Controversial FiguresWhen assistant editor Kendra Hamilton mentioned this year marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and suggested visiting the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Conn., I thought it could make for an interesting article. However, even I was surprised by how much I didn’t […]

June 5, 2002

Appeals Court Declines To Hear Separate Motions on Mississippi Desegregation Lawsuit

Appeals Court Declines To Hear Separate Motions on Mississippi Desegregation LawsuitJACKSON, Miss.A federal appeals court last month declined to consider whether the widow of Jake Ayers Sr. can pursue a separate lawsuit over desegregation of Mississippi colleges. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans said it would not consider any issues in […]

May 22, 2002

Leadership & Policy

High Court Passes Up College’s Free Speech Case

High Court Passes Up College’s Free Speech CaseWASHINGTONLeaders of a Kentucky community college lost a free speech case that asked the Supreme Court if a college instructor had a constitutional right to use racial slurs in class as part of a discussion on hurtful communication. Complaints about the lesson cost the teacher his job, and […]

April 24, 2002

Malcolm X Archival Material Rescued From the Auction Block

Malcolm X Archival Material Rescued From the Auction BlockSchomburg Center could be recipient of collection, Shabazz family says Scholars around the nation are breathing sighs of relief now that a treasure trove of original speech manuscripts, diaries, photos and letters belonging to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — more commonly known as Malcolm X — have been […]

April 10, 2002

Florida Court Rejects NAACP Challenge

Florida Court Rejects NAACP Challenge To University AdmissionsTALLAHASSEE, Fla.An appeals court has ruled the NAACP does not have standing to challenge rules eliminating racial and gender preferences in university admissions. Appeals Judge Peter Webster wrote that the civil rights group had failed to show evidence that a student would be “substantially affected” by the implementation […]

April 10, 2002

African-American

Did Black Folks Gain From the Women’s Movement?

Did Black Folks Gain From the Women’s Movement?I have always been intrigued by the career of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Stanford Law School graduate’s legal career was clearly affected by sex discrimination, yet O’Connor has tended to take mixed positions in cases of race discrimination. Her opinion in the Croson case was, […]

March 27, 2002

Mississippi Desegregation Settlement May Help Jackson State More Than Others, Some Say

Mississippi Desegregation Settlement May Help Jackson State More Than Others, Some SayJACKSON, Miss.A settlement of Mississippi’s college desegregation lawsuit may help Jackson State University more than Alcorn State and Mississippi Valley State universities, officials say. Last month, a federal judge approved a desegregation plan in the Ayers case, signaling an end to the 27-year-old legal […]

March 27, 2002

Affirmative Action’s Uncertain Future

Affirmative Action’s Uncertain Future Proponents of race-conscious admissions firm on belief, but less confident on whether policy could survive a Supreme Court reviewBy Diana AboualiCambridge, Mass.Proponents of affirmative action offered compelling arguments for the use of race-conscious admissions at the nation’s colleges and universities at a recent symposium at Harvard Law School. However, the same […]

March 27, 2002

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