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The Art and Science Of College Admissions

The Art and Science Of College Admissions By Julianne Malveaux President George W. Bush says he thinks the University of Michigan’s affirmative action plan is “divisive” and a “de facto quota system” because it admits students solely on the basis of race. Either President Bush is woefully misinformed or he has chosen to ignore the […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

A Timeless Legacy

A Timeless Legacy Celebrating 100 years of W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black FolkBY KENDRA HAMILTON Here’s a little known fact worth savoring on the centennial of the publication of The Souls of Black Folk: Its author, the restlessly brilliant and relentlessly controversial Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, was at Tuskegee University when […]

February 12, 2003

African-American

Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action

Educators, Activists Criticize Bush’s Position on Affirmative Action By Charles Dervarics Political fallout continues from the Bush administration’s recent stance on the University of Michigan affirmative action case, as groups representing African Americans and Hispanics strongly criticized the White House decision to oppose the university’s policy. The president “has decided that equalizing the field of […]

February 12, 2003

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Research, Race and Diversity: Remembering Dr. King

Research, Race and Diversity: Remembering Dr. King By Dr. Henry N. Williams As we celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this month, one might ask: Does King’s dream exist in the research community? In fact, this question is more relevant today than at any other period since King’s assassination. The reality is […]

January 29, 2003

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Making Our Voices Heard

Making Our Voices Heard When the U.S. Supreme Court announced it would hear the University of Michigan’s affirmative action case and render what will undoubtedly be a landmark ruling on the issue, I honestly thought there would be more of an outcry from civil rights groups lobbying the administration, making the case in support of […]

January 29, 2003

LGBTQ+

The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter

The Key to the Closet: Making Race and Sexuality Matter Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American FictionEdited by Devon W. Carbado, Dr. Dwight A. McBride, and Donald Weise Foreword by Evelyn C. White Cleis Press, 2002, 555 pp., $29.95, Trade paper, ISBN 1-57344-108-2 Fiction by gay, lesbian and bisexual […]

January 15, 2003

African-American

The Many Faces of Bias

The Many Faces of BiasBy Julianne Malveaux If 2002 did nothing else, it provided those who teach African American studies with scores of “teachable moments” about race, class, gender, history and intersectionality. The year-end flap about Sen. Trent Lott’s hankering back to the good old days of segregation could easily take up hours of conversation, […]

January 15, 2003

Faculty & Staff

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campuses

Race and its Continuing Significance on our Campusesan interview with Dr. Joe R. Feagin In the fall of 2002, every college president who was a member of the American Council on Education received a copy of The Continuing Significance of Racism: U.S. Colleges and Universities. This was the first in a series of occasional papers […]

January 15, 2003

Leadership & Policy

Our Raison D’être

Our Raison D’être This particular edition hits on the complex and often painful issue of race. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois said almost 100 years ago upon the publication of The Souls of Black Folk, “for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line.” And it looks like the same will be true […]

January 15, 2003

African-American

Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith

Black Studies and Black Scholars: Keeping the Faith By Dr. Dwight A. McBride I want to take this occasion to give institutionally marginal programs and departments a much-deserved moment of recognition. I specifically want to do so for African American studies programs and departments. Though African American scholars are not always synonymous with African American […]

January 1, 2003

Students

What’s at Stake for UVa?

What’s at Stake for UVa?University president weighs in on the campus’s current racial climate and ongoing efforts to strengthen its multicultural milieu.By Kendra Hamilton The following Q&A session with the University of Virginia’s president, Dr. John T. Casteen, follows news reports that the venerable state school, which appeared to have forged a bright multicultural future […]

January 1, 2003

Sports

Firing of MSU Football Coach Raises Questions, Sparks Discussion

Firing of MSU Football Coach Raises Questions, Sparks DiscussionOnly three Black head coaches remain in Division IBy Erik Lords EAST LANSING, Mich.Then there were three. The surprising in-season firing of Michigan State University football coach Bobby Williams last month left many college sports observers across the nation asking several questions. Did race play a factor […]

December 4, 2002