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The American press: tainted by arrogance

Over the past decade, a resurgence of racism in the United States has been stimulated relentlessly by the American press (print and broadcast) through its selected depiction of Black Americans in its coverage of news events.

June 19, 2007

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Ironies & origins: affirmative action’s history key to informed debate

Many books have been written about affirmative action since it emerged on the scene some 30 years ago.

June 18, 2007

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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. – book reviews

Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay’s memorable poem, “If We Must Die,” be-speaks the valor of men who, “hunted and penned in an inglorious spot” and “pressed to the wall, dying” must join their kinsmen, “meet the common foe” and fight back.

June 18, 2007

Faculty & Staff

The sound of a gateway closing – how anti-affirmative action was organized for national debate – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

In America, education remains the gateway to upward social mobility, to opportunity, to self-sufficiency, successful families and political participation. That’s the reality.

June 17, 2007

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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.

June 17, 2007

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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.

June 17, 2007

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We will not ‘get over it’ – White woman tells Black woman to get over history

A few weeks ago, I was sitting on a panel with a rabid white woman who repeatedly insisted that Black people “get over” history. Like a dog with a bone, she had a point she would not let go. “Slavery happened. What does it have to do with today,” she said, her voice rising.

June 17, 2007

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Fighting back: affirmative action professionals on the front line – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

WASHINGTON If the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in the matter of Hopwood vs. Texas is a body blow for affirmative action, minority advocates in higher education are trying hard not to show it.

June 17, 2007

Community Colleges

New community college affirmative action policies announced; California keeps some elements of old hiring programs – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

California Community Colleges officials have changed the system’s affirmative action hiring policies to make sure that they don’t include any “illegal preferences” for minorities.

June 17, 2007

Students

Women of the Harlem Renaissance. – book reviews

Women of the Harlem Renaissance, by Cheryl A. Wall, an associate professor of English at Rutgers University, is a welcome addition to the scholarship on women of this period. Excellently researched, this book focuses on the lives of three women writers — Jessie Redmon Faucet, Nella Larson, and Zora Neale Hurston. Together, they epitomized the voice, tone, style and vision of Black women writers in New York City during the 1920s and early ’30s — the period of the Harlem Renaissance.

June 17, 2007

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Affirmative action: forging a constitutionally acceptable solution – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

Fundamental to any discussion of affirmative action’s legality is its definition. Affirmative action does not mean numerical quotas, the selection of someone solely on the basis of race or gender, or the selection of the unqualified over the qualified.

June 17, 2007

Students

‘Savings’ on California initiative challenged – California Civil Rights Initiative – Special Report Top 100 Degree Producers

Proponents of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) tout it as a measure that will bring about substantial savings to state-house coffers by abolishing so-called state-sponsored discrimination in the form of affirmative action programs.

June 17, 2007