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Students

Online Debate Rages Over White Team’s Step Competition Win

A white Arkansas sorority team’s win in an Atlanta step competition has stirred a fiery debate over the African-inspired tradition and whether the integration of a once-ethnically-exclusive activity constitutes a form of cultural theft.

March 1, 2010

Students

UC-San Diego Condemns Party Mocking Black History

The chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, is condemning a ghetto-themed party organized by fraternity students to mock Black History Month, but officials say no one is likely to be disciplined.

February 18, 2010

African-American

WVU Reprinting Long-lost African American Works

West Virginia University Press is reprinting important African American texts that have either gone unnoticed for generations or fallen out of print.

February 11, 2010

Students

Lastword – Black Greek Deathwatch

After the hand-wringing over a hazing death comes a period of reckless behavior leading to yet another death. Will we stop the cycle?

February 9, 2010

Students

Judge Dismisses Suit Against AKA President and Sorority

A judge has thrown out a lawsuit by eight members of the nation’s oldest black sorority, who accused the group’s president of taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in improper compensation and spending sorority money on a wax statue of herself and other questionable purposes.

February 3, 2010

African-American

Scholar West Urges Holiday Audience Not to ‘Sanitize’ King’s Legacy

A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.’s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon’s church, urging the audience not to “sanitize” King’s legacy or let the president off the hook on issues like poverty.

January 18, 2010

African-American

Dispelling HIV/AIDS Myths in Black Community

Claudia Pryor’s documentary explores the attitudes and awareness among Black youth in Pittsburgh about HIV/AIDS that will be the basis of a new curricula to dispel the myths surrounding Blacks with the disease

December 13, 2009

African-American

HBCUs once a haven for Jewish refugee scholars

Based on a book and film, the Museum of Jewish Heritage presents: “Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges”

October 28, 2009

Faculty & Staff

SPECTRUM: CONFINEMENT TOO COSTLY FOR MIDDLE-CLASS BLACK WOMEN

It is time for middle-class Black women to break the mold, argues Lisa B. Thompson argues in her new book.

October 28, 2009

Students

Temple University’s Commitment to Diversity Questioned

When budgetary cuts become necessary at a college, the programs and departments most vulnerable are often the least fundamental to a school’s central mission. But when an institution has been ranked as the most diverse student body in higher education, it can be difficult to explain why an office that caters to multicultural students was downsized dramatically.

October 27, 2009

Students

Predominantly Black Sorority Empowered to Expand International Aid Work

In gaining ‘special consultative’ status from the United Nations, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority joins an elite network of organizations that provides international assistance to developing nations.

October 15, 2009

Students

Predominantly Black Sorority Empowered to Expand International Aid Work

In gaining ‘special consultative’ status from the United Nations, the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority joins an elite network of organizations that provides international assistance to developing nations.

October 15, 2009