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Sports

Respecting Black Women

C. Vivian Stringer, the head coach of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, urged the audience at a symposium on respecting Black women to remain vigilant and to broaden the conversation from the Don Imus incident to all of the ways in which Black women are degraded and disrespected on a daily basis.

June 27, 2007

African-American

Pittsburgh Blacks Among Nation’s Poorest, Most Segregated, says University of Pittsburgh Report

PITTSBURGH The city’s black population is one of the poorest in the nation and black men here are nearly twice as likely as white men to be unemployed, according to an in-depth report released Tuesday by the University of Pittsburgh.

June 26, 2007

African-American

Number of Blacks Joining Military Down

WASHINGTON The number of Blacks joining the military has plunged by more than one-third since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began. Other job prospects are soaring and relatives of potential recruits increasingly are discouraging them from joining the armed services.

June 25, 2007

Students

Teaching the young keeps him young – 90 Year Old Dr. Richard Mckinney of Morgan State Still Going Strong

One of the oldest active professors in the nation, Dr. Richard I. McKinney, professor emeritus of philosophy at Morgan State University, has spent all of his life on college campuses and plans to keep on going. This semester will see him teaching at least one class.

June 20, 2007

African-American

Black congressmen protest NAFEO award to Thurmond – National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Sen. Strom Thurmond

Washington Reps. William Clay (Demo) and Louis Stokes (DOH) refused to share an award from the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) with former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) at a prescheduled Capitol Hill ceremony.

June 16, 2007

African-American

A piece of history – Clark Atlanta University Buys Historic Paschal’s Hotel-Restaurant

ATLANTA In one transaction, Clark Atlanta University has acquired a legendary Black business, a new dormitory and a world-class chicken recipe.

June 16, 2007

African-American

Building the village: one scientist at a time – university professor’s program for minority high school students

When Dr. Billy Joe Evans was in high school, his parents couldn’t pay for the exam that would permit him to attend college early. So one of his teachers paid. “That’s the kind of commitment we need from the village,” he says, alluding to the African proverb that “it takes a village to raise a child.”

June 16, 2007

African-American

American culture’s African roots

A professor of dance at Temple University, Brenda Dixon Gottschild draws upon her expertise in that discipline as a springboard to explore a multifaceted phenomenon: the substantial African and African American intertwining with “dominant” (read white) American culture.

June 15, 2007

African-American

Ten myths, half-truths and misunderstandings about Black history

Black history may have seemed “lost, stolen or strayed” at one time, but since then much of the African American past has been rediscovered and reanalyzed.

June 15, 2007

African-American

Call Me Mister: South Carolina Program Trains Black Men to Become Schoolteachers and Role Models

Now seven years old, the Call Me Mister program has placed 20 Black male teachers in South Carolina schools. So how are they doing?

June 13, 2007

Students

Broken Bonds: Are Black Greek Organizations Making Themselves Irrelevant?

It is rare that one finds a venue to advance balanced, yet critical, debate over Black Greek Letter Organizations, or BGLOs.

June 13, 2007

African-American

Old Problem, New Approach

Jackie Johnson, an instructor of computer education at Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina, has developed an educational Web site with the goal of making science “cool” for Black youth.

May 16, 2007