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Slavery Apology University of Virginia Would Improve Racial Climate, University Official says

A University of Virginia administrator says an apology for slavery by the university would help heal the campus…

February 22, 2006

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Celebration or Placebo?

“I hate Black History Month.” Such reads the title of a 2001 essay posted on…

February 22, 2006

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Celebrating Black History Month

Here’s a look at how some colleges and universities around the country are celebrating Black History Month…

February 22, 2006

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Black America, Then and Now

Living Black History: How Re-Imagining the African-American Past Can Remake America’s Racial FutureBy Manning MarableBasic Civitas Books, 2006288 pp., $26.00 cloth, ISBN: 0465043895  Are the stars of the civil rights movement yesterday’s news? In Living Black History, scholar and activist Manning Marable offers a resounding “No!” with a fresh and personal look at the enduring […]

February 22, 2006

Students

Grants & Awards

Brandeis University (Mass.) received a $25 million donation from Carl J. and Ruth Shapiro for a new 175,000-square-foot science center. The $154 million facility will be named the Carl J. Shapiro Science Center. The donation matches the largest in school history, also given by the Shapiro family for the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center. […]

February 22, 2006

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University of Kansas Professors’ Film on Confederate States Set for National Premiere

“CSA: The Confederate States of America,” a satirical movie by two University of Kansas film professors that examines life after the South wins the Civil War…

February 16, 2006

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Making the Past Present

Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III talks often about “the ancestors.” On the job since July, the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture knows that the “eyes of the world” are trained on him now…

February 8, 2006

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A Rich and Complex History

To all of us who celebrate Black History Month, Diverse delivers an inviting array of feature stories that showcase the intellectual…

February 8, 2006

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Making the Past Present

Historian Lonnie G. Bunch III talks often about “the ancestors.” On the job since July, the founding director of the…

February 8, 2006

African-American

Farmers Insurance Group Announces National Black History Educational Initiative for Educators

Farmers Insurance Group has partnered with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) to bring…

February 2, 2006

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Cornell Study Says Upstate Mexicans Largely Invisible

A new study by Cornell University finds more Mexican farmworkers are settling in rural upstate New York…

January 25, 2006

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Grants & Awards

Eastern Washington University has received a $500,000 challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation to help equip the university’s new Computing and Engineering Building. Half of the funds will be used to purchase scientific equipment, while the other half will go towards an endowment to replace and maintain current equipment. Holy Names University (Calif.) has received […]

January 25, 2006