Tag: African/Afro/Black Studies: Page 30

African-American

Documentary on Controversial African Studies Scholar

This month on diverseeducation.com snippets of the film “Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness,” which chronicles the life and career of the late Melville J. Herskovits, a pioneering American anthropologist of African studies, will be featured.

July 8, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Some Progress for Missouri University on Diversity; Agreement With Hispanic Board Signed

More than three years after being condemned by an independent auditor as one of the worst universities for faculty diversity and overall racial inclusivity the auditor had ever seen, the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) reports some improvement in its diversity profile.

June 24, 2009

African-American

Books By Martin Luther King Jr. To Be Republished

Four books that have been long out of print by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. will be published again under a deal with Beacon Press brokered by King’s youngest son, Dexter King.

June 23, 2009

Students

Fellowship Program Honors Legacy of Late Scholar of the African Diaspora

Today, Michigan State University will recognize four graduate students chosen as TIAA-CREF Ruth Simms Hamilton Research Fellowship awardees for the 2009-10 academic year during a campus reception.

June 9, 2009

Faculty & Staff

Sun Ra Exhibit at UPenn Shows Jazz Pioneer’s Spacy Imagery

The late jazz musician and band leader Sun Ra told of having a mystical experience in his youth in which he was transported to Saturn and instructed to speak to the world in troubled times to come.

May 26, 2009

Students

Civil Rights Pioneer: Education and Service Key to Ending Discrimination, Injustice

The arc of Cleveland Sellers Jr.’s life has taken him from rural South Carolina to the Ivy League, where he earned a master’s at Harvard University, through the civil rights movement into the first-ever campus shooting in the United States, to exile in Greensboro, N.C., and academia in Columbia then back home to the place where it all started — Denmark, S.C.

April 20, 2009

Students

Scholars Discuss Black Power in the Age of Obama

The Black Power movement is not a vestige of the past, but a living didactical legacy that is as relevant now in the Obama era as it has ever been, said a group of scholars and activists during a two-day symposium dedicated to the impact of the Black Power movement on America.

March 31, 2009

African-American

Artist Joseph Holston Depicts Underground Railroad in Most Recent Exhibit

Artist Joseph Holston is obsessed with color: deep blues complimented by rich yellows, dramatic splashes of crimson, bright orange and striking violets.

March 22, 2009

African-American

Brown Moves Ahead With Plans for Slavery Memorial

A Brown University commission has asked the school to create a memorial acknowledging its early ties to the slave trade, one that would inspire reconciliation, not resurrect shame.

March 18, 2009

Students

At 100, NAACP Still Kicking

When leaders of the NAACP gather this month to formally begin a year-long recognition of 100 years of civil rights work, they’ll be talking as much about the organization’s future as they will be honoring its past.

February 4, 2009

African-American

Black History Month 2009

New titles on African-American experiences offer remarkable depth and range.

February 4, 2009

African-American

Not Just Black and White

As a teenager, Dr. Anne Cheng held in awe the novel Invisible Man.

January 7, 2009