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Suburban Schools See Limited Hispanic Integration

Hispanic students have become more segregated in suburban public schools over the last decade, even while Blacks and Asians have become slightly less isolated, according to a new study.

March 31, 2009

Students

Perspectives: A Win in the Diversity Column

In what could be considered the understatement of the year, John Payton said this about what has to be a major setback for diversity opponents: “This is an important victory.”

March 18, 2009

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Maryland AG Offers Legal Guidelines for Increasing Diversity in State’s Universities

Educating a diverse student population is critical for the state and nation at large to maintain global competitiveness and develop future leaders, says Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler in a new report advising state college leaders on how legally to justify diversity programs.

March 15, 2009

Native Americans

Yale’s Skull and Bones Society Sued Over Geronimo’s Remains

HARTFORD, Conn. — Geronimo’s descendants have sued Skull and Bones — the secret society at Yale University linked to presidents and other powerful figures — claiming that its members stole the remains of the legendary Apache leader decades ago and have kept them ever since.

February 23, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Documentary on Landmark Civil Rights Case Premiers Tonight on PBS

PBS tonight will premier a documentary, “A Class Apart,” that sheds light on a landmark Mexican-American civil rights case handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3, 1954 – two weeks before the watershed Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

February 22, 2009

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NAACP President: ‘Human Rights’ to be focus

Its first 100 years were about civil rights and achieving equality between Blacks and Whites.

February 11, 2009

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Cherokees Go to Court Over Freedmen Status

The Cherokee Nation wants a federal judge to decide whether descendants of the tribe’s former Black slaves, known as freedmen, have a federal right to citizenship in the tribe.

February 8, 2009

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Action on Both Sides

No sooner had Barack Obama won the U.S. presidency than talk about America entering a “post-racial” era began. The election of a Black man to the White House is a momentous milestone that proves race is no longer a barrier in minorities’ lives, the chatter went. Of course evidence to the contrary is everywhere —segregated […]

February 4, 2009

Students

Perspectives: Racial Identity Confuses the Issue of Entitlements

In the Nov. 27, 2008 edition of Diverse, Dr. Betty Jeanne Taylor recounts in the “Lastword” a friendly dialogue with a Black student worker in the library at her institution.

January 27, 2009

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A Day After He Takes Oath, Immigration Activists Send Message to Obama

Margarito Esquino and his wife, María, lit a small clay pot of medicinal herbs – sage, mira and copal – and, with a handful of eagle feathers, swept the smoke toward the gleaming office building at 500 SW 12th Street.

January 21, 2009

African-American

Most of Little Rock 9 Headed to Inauguration

President-elect Barack Obama has said the Little Rock Nine’s courage in desegregating an Arkansas public school helped make the opportunities in his life possible.

January 19, 2009

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Napolitano to Protect Border Better, Holder To Break With Bush Administration on Torture

President-elect Barack Obama’s pick to oversee Homeland Security told senators she will improve the department’s operations and relationships with other agencies, while his choice for the Attorney General’s office forcefully broke from the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies.

January 15, 2009