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Students

Identity bank: research institute launched by College Fund/UNCF has a big job ahead of it – United Negro College Fund

Former Congressman William H. Gray III has to look no further than his battles on the floor of the U.S., House of Representatives over race-specific scholarships in justifying how key the College Fund/United Negro College Fund’s newly created Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute can be to Black America.

June 17, 2007

Students

Challenging racial ‘scholarship.’

Not too long ago, in the, not-so-distant past, hell had no fury like that directed at, American academics who dared to teach the lie that Blacks were genetically less intelligent than whites.

June 17, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Retirement planning: the easy way

Retirement. A time to retreat from the troubles of the world to a life of rest and relaxation. Right? Well, not necessarily.

June 17, 2007

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Academic theater: on the road with Cornel West, Henry Gates and SRO crowds – Standing Room Only, Henry Louis Gates Jr

Washington If the assertion, popular among mainstream writers, is true that the age of public intellectualism is dead, no one told the growing number of Black scholars and their rapidly growing non-campus following.

June 17, 2007

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Ethnic studies more timely than ever

The most active, the most public, and possibly the most sustained discourse on race and ethnicity in the university has come from those in ethnic studies.

June 16, 2007

Sports

Racial harmony and a first down – experiences of a head coach at Illinois University

I was recently asked, “Why do you think it is important. as a coach, to take the lead in building bridges across racial and cultural lines in athletics?” Succinctly. I would say it would have to do with my background, my resolve and my opportunity. Let me expand on that reaction.

June 16, 2007

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‘Feel good history’: scholars debate Afrocentrism

One of the more controversial debates now going on in intellectual circles is over Afrocentrism, a movement that argues that traditional history has undervalued the contributions of Black Africa to ancient Greek and Western thought. At the center of the debate are Afrocentrists and those attacking them, most recently Mary Lefkowitz, who wrote “Not Out of Africa.”

June 16, 2007

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Texas ruling may dismantle affirmative action – ruling on preferred treatment of minority for college admission

Austin, TX In a decision that could dismantle 20 years of affirmative action, a federal appeals court has ruled that the University of Texas should not have given preferred treatment to minorities admitted to its School of Law.

June 16, 2007

African-American

Separate and Unequal: Black Americans and the US Federal Goverment. – book reviews

Separate & Unequal: Black Americans and the U.S. Federal Government, Desmond King, Oxford University Press, 1995. $35.00 (hardcover)

June 16, 2007

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Black, feminist, outspoken and unintimidated – arguments for feminist concerns of Black women

Beverly Guy-Sheftal’s masterful anthology of African-American feminist thought, “Words of Fire,” is a reminder that African-American women sometimes publicly expressed feminist thought before white women did.

June 16, 2007

Students

Reading race in antiquity: the many fallacies of Mary Lefkowitz

Future historians will write that no intellectual idea has been so maligned in the 20th century as Afrocentric theory, the idea that African people are agents and actors in history.

June 16, 2007

Community Colleges

Angry & determined: we need an open dialogue on race – excerpt from James D. Tschechtelin’s speech, president of Baltimore City Community College – Transcript

The following is excerpted from a recent address given by Dr. James D. Tschechtelin, president of Baltimore City Community College.

June 15, 2007