Tag: African/Afro/Black Studies: Page 43

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Luminaries Honor Toni Morrison Before Retirement

A party for author Toni Morrison drew stars such as former President Bill Clinton and actor Morgan Freeman, as well as officials and students from Princeton University, where the author has taught for 17 years before announcing her retirement this spring.

May 29, 2006

African-American

Vanderbilt Lures Black Literary Scholars

Vanderbilt University is on a mission to transform its literary studies program, and hopes to use an interdisciplinary approach to make that happen. To achieve that end, the university is adding five leading Black literary scholars, including Drs. Houston A. Baker and Hortense Spillers, to its English department.

May 24, 2006

African-American

Oxford University Press Unveils African-American Virtual Library

Students, scholars, teachers and librarians now have instant access to more than 30 volumes of reference works on the African-American experience — all on one new online resource.

May 17, 2006

Sports

Novel by Harvard Student Pulled From Stores

Rarely has an author succeeded, then failed, as quickly as Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard University sophomore who acknowledged lifting material for her debut novel…

April 27, 2006

Sports

Harvard Sophomore Accused of Plagiarism in Debut Novel

The publisher of a 19-year-old Harvard University sophomore’s debut novel is investigating the work because it includes several passages that are similar to a book by another author published in 2001….

April 24, 2006

African-American

Deaths of Civil Rights Icons Leads to Surge in Donations for MLK Memorial

Donations for a planned memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C., have jumped since the recent deaths of civil rights icons Rosa Parks and King’s widow, Coretta Scott King…

April 3, 2006

Students

Conference to Examine ‘The Black Scholar and the State of Black America’

An upcoming conference at Michigan State University will bring together scholars, professionals, community leaders and graduate students in wide-ranging discussions…

March 27, 2006

African-American

Covenant, Convention and Context

The history of the Black convention goes back more than 175 years, to Philadelphia’s Negro National Convention on Sept. 15, 1830. The convention drew 40 Black people from nine states…

March 22, 2006

African-American

Bill Clinton To Lead Boston University Africa Forum

Former President Bill Clinton will lead a transcontinental dialogue with students at seven universities and colleges in Africa and the United States linked in a videoconference on…

February 28, 2006

African-American

A Memorable Black History Month

What’s making Black History Month memorable this year is that the Smithsonian Institution’s board of regents…

February 22, 2006

African-American

Philly Requiring Black History Course for High-Schoolers

The board governing Philadelphia’s schools decided a lesson on Black history was needed — for everybody…

February 22, 2006

African-American

Remembering Nellie McKay

Much of America learned of the death of Dr. Nellie McKay, the distinguished literature professor who died at the age of…

February 22, 2006