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How Long? Cosby, Brown And Racial Progress

How Long? Cosby, Brown And Racial ProgressBill Cosby ruffled feathers, raised eyebrows and said a mouthful when, at a Howard University black-tie celebration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, he launched into a riff about “the lower economic people” not holding up their end of the bargain in the wake of […]

June 16, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Giants in the Classroom

Giants in the Classroom Twenty influential scholars whose work has inspired others and made a significant impact on the academy Over the past two decades, Black Issues’ writers and editors have featured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of faculty in the magazine’s stories and interviews. Deciding on 20 faculty members whose research, teaching and service set them […]

June 16, 2004

Students

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’

‘Educate, Don’t Segregate’Twenty legal and legislative milestones in higher educationThis timeline reflects some of the most significant legal and legislative milestones that have influenced higher education almost as long as Black Issues In Higher Education has been in print. The ongoing legal battles have primarily involved the further desegregation of schools and the use of […]

June 16, 2004

Faculty & Staff

A Case in Point

A Case in PointSimple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for EqualityBy Richard Kluger, Vintage Books, April 2004, 865 pp., $24.00, trade paperback, 1-4000-3061-7Simple Justice is described as the definitive history of the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in […]

May 19, 2004

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Most Believe Integration Improved

Most Believe Integration Improved Education for Black Students, Poll FindsWASHINGTONNearly three-fourths of Americans say integration of the nation’s schools has improved the quality of education for Black students, according to an Associated Press poll. However, the view was more prevalent among Whites than Blacks. The poll also found four in five parents of school-age children […]

May 19, 2004

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From Kobe Bryant to Campus Rape

From Kobe Bryant to Campus RapeNobody knows what happened between L.A. Lakers’ Kobe Bryant and his Colorado accuser, but everybody with half of an opinion knows that public attention around this case is not just about what happened between the two of them. To be sure, Bryant was a $45 million “good guy” athlete whose […]

May 5, 2004

Sports

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Blacks in Coaching

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Blacks in CoachingDuring the 2003 football season, African Americans were employed as head coaches at five of the 117 NCAA Division I-A colleges and universities. At the conclusion of the 2003 season, there were 13 head coaching vacancies at Division I-A football programs; one African American was hired. Today, five African […]

April 7, 2004

HBCUs

More Than Child’s Play

More Than Child’s PlayFor Dr. Sabrina Thomas, dolls are not just child’s play. In fact, they are the subject of her research, which recently landed her a $40,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thomas, an assistant professor of family and consumer sciences at North Carolina Central University, was awarded the grant to […]

March 24, 2004

Faculty & Staff

Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War

Recent Scholarship on Blacks and the Cold War Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922–1963.By Dr. Kate A. Baldwin     Duke University Press, Nov. 2002346 pp. $59.95 cloth, ISBN 0-8223-2976-X$19.95 paper, ISBN 0-8223-2990-5Examining the significant influence of the Soviet Union on the work of four major African American […]

February 11, 2004

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To Be Black, Gifted and Red

To Be Black, Gifted and RedCold War period yields new, provocative ground for contemporary scholarsBy Crystal L. KeelsToday’s climate of supercharged patriotism and apparent intolerance for comment or critique calls to mind an earlier period of U.S. history. The Cold War that began in the mid- to late-1940s, along with McCarthyism and the anti-communist movement […]

February 11, 2004

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Race, Not Income, Produces Segregation in Metro Boston

Race, Not Income, Produces Segregation in Metro BostonCAMBRIDGE, Mass.Metropolitan Boston’s poor minority residents are over twice as likely to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty than are poor Whites, and three times more likely to live in severely distressed neighborhoods, characterized by high shares of single-parent households, school dropouts, poverty and jobless males detached from […]

January 28, 2004

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Emerging Academics in Print

Emerging Academics in PrintSoul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou WilliamsBy Dr. Tammy KernodleNortheastern University Press, April 2004, 348 pp., $30 cloth, ISBN 1-55553-606-9Pianist, composer and arranger, Mary Lou Williams (1910–1981), was one of the most significant and influential artists in the history of jazz. Yet throughout her prolific career of nearly […]

January 14, 2004