Tag: African/Afro/Black Studies: Page 58

Students

Racist Incidents Mar Black History Month at Colleges Across the Country

Racist Incidents Mar Black History Month at Colleges Across the CountryWash. Student Leader Accused of Making Racial Remark About AdministratorSPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Falls Community College student government president has been accused of making a racist remark about an administrator. A student panel is being formed to hear the case.The dispute centers on April […]

March 1, 2000

African-American

BI News Briefs

Judge Refuses to Stop UGA Preferences While Case Is PendingSAVANNAH, Ga. — A federal judge has denied a motion that would have prevented the University of Georgia from continuing to use race as one of the factors for admitting borderline students while a class action lawsuit wends its way through the court. The motion for […]

March 1, 2000

African-American

Events

EventsFEBRUARYFeb. 13-17, 2000National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO)25th Annual ConventionWashington, D.C.Contact: Wilma RoscoePhone: (301) 650-2440Web: www.nafeo.orgFeb. 16-20, 2000Association for Educational Communications and Technology“Creating Pathways to Learning: Educational Communications for the 21st Century”Long Beach, Calif.Contact: Lois FreelandPhone: (202) 347-7834E-mail: [email protected]: www.aect.orgFeb. 21-26, 2000National Association of African American StudiesHoustonContact: Dr. Lemuel Berry Jr.Phone: (606) […]

February 16, 2000

Students

Preparing to Cross the River

Preparing to Cross the River When I was growing up in Falmouth, Ky., I can remember my grandmother singing a song that put me to sleep and awakened me. The title of this song is “Shall We Gather At the River.” The final chorus still lingers in my mind:  “Shall we gather at the river, […]

December 22, 1999

African-American

The Problem With Henry Louis Gates’ ‘African World’

The Problem With Henry Louis Gates’ ‘African World’The beautiful African coastline in Ghana is studded with the haunted vestiges of slave fortresses built by European nations over a period of 400 years. It is not unlike the history of the European Slave Trade in other parts of West Africa, from Mauritania to Angola, where more […]

November 24, 1999

Students

Inappropriate Monikers

Inappropriate MonikersAs minority students become aware of buildings honoring people of dubious  distinction, campus officials grapple with issues concerning institutional history and racist legaciesBy Paul MuschickCHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Kristi Booker thought her fellow students didn’t know what they were talking about when they told her Saunders Hall here at the University of North Carolina’s […]

November 24, 1999

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Testing Your Diversity Knowledge

Testing Your Diversity KnowledgeThe following test was developed by Fred L. Pincus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, and author of the Test of Affirmative Action  Knowledge and the co-editor of Race and Ethnic Conflict: Contending Views of Prejudice, Discrimination and Ethnoviolence. 1 It is well known that children from […]

November 10, 1999

Faculty & Staff

Professional Appointments

PresidentsRoman Picked as Interim Head at CCNYDr. Stanford A. Roman Jr.  has been named interim president of the City University of New York’s City College. Since 1990, he had served as dean of the CUNY Medical School and Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education at CCNY, a post he will continue to hold. Roman earned […]

October 27, 1999

African-American

New Views on Malcolm X

New Views on Malcolm XFrom a 1941 letter to friend Zelma Holman in Michigan, written from Boston by 16-year-old Malcolm —Dearest Zel,Sorry I haven’t gotten around to writing you sooner but I have been very busy. You know how we traveling men are. How is everything in Jackson. Boston’s fine. The place is really jumpin’ […]

October 13, 1999

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Rethinking Malcolm X

Rethinking Malcolm XATLANTA — Early writings by Malcolm X went on public display for the first time at Emory University here last month, offering a new glimpse of the fiery orator who advocated Black nationalism and raised government suspicion.  The papers, which could alter Americans’ perceptions of Malcolm X, are the only known collection of […]

October 13, 1999

African-American

Professional Appointment

ACADEMICLisa R. Elliott has been named communications coordinator for Cleveland State University’s office of minority affairs and community relations. Previously, she managed a marketing communications firm, Aspire Marketing. Elliot holds a bachelor’s in speech from Northwestern University.Dr. Allen J. Green has been named dean of studies and student life at Sarah Lawrence College. He comes […]

September 29, 1999

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Africa:Through Skip Gates’ Eyes

Africa:Through Skip Gates’ EyesIn his poem “Heritage,” Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen once asked, “What is Africa to me?” Harvard University’s Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. struggles with the very same question in a PBS documentary that will air next month over the course of three nights. Throughout the six-part Wonders of the African […]

September 29, 1999