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Beyond Black & White: Transforming African American Politics. – book reviews

In the twenty-nine years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement and the ascendancy of conservatism as the dominant force in national politics, many scholars and intellectuals have struggled mightily to explain “what has happened” to Black people. As the millennium approaches, academia, and we as a society, have been confronted with the issue of racism and have sought to re-examine those public policies which have directly impacted the quality of the Black American experience.

July 10, 2007

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Law schools, measures of merit and the public’s perception of the legal profession

I see the affirmative action debate and the role of the LSAT (Law School Admissions Test) in that debate as the major challenges facing this organization – and legal education – over the next several years.

July 10, 2007

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Coming to grips with the problems of race – interview with Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education co-chair Thomas Kean – Interview

In addition to serving as a co-chair of the Council for Aid to Education’s Commission on National Investment in Higher Education (CNIHE), Thomas Kean, president of Drew University and former governor of New Jersey, was recently appointed to the president’s newly formed advisory commission on race. Following the CNIHE press conference, Gov. Kean discussed the report and the advisory commission with Black Issues In Higher Education:

July 10, 2007

HBCUs

As discussion gets started, legislators seek elimination of government’s affirmative action policies

As President Bill Clinton was defending the use of affirmative action in college admissions, members of Congress rolled out a plan to abolish such preferences in the awarding of government funds.

July 10, 2007

Community Colleges

“We definitely cannot drop the goals of affirmative action”: a discussion with Dr. Carmen Neuberger, Gwendolyn J. Dungy and Joyce Smith – Panel Discussion

Countless studies have shown that what happens outside of classrooms plays a crucial role in whether students attend college and continue in college to graduation. High school guidance counselors, admissions officers and campus student service officers all play a part in matching the right student to the right campus and then making sure the students feel a part of campus life.

July 10, 2007

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Name change doesn’t alter mission, just makes it more inclusive – Science, Engineering, Communications, Mathematics Enrichment teacher training program

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. SECME Executive Director Guy Vickers knows his board of directors raised some eyeb\rows last year when it voted to change the name of the organization.

July 10, 2007

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A national dialogue on race

The following is an excerpt from President Bill Clinton’s address at the University of California at San Diego commencement June 14. This is the second time in a month that President Clinton has appeared in The Last Word. The last time was in the May 29 edition, an excerpt from his speech at Morgan State University.

July 10, 2007

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Resurrecting Fisk’s Race Relations Institute: with $4 million in grants, director Raymond Winbush says, “We’re going to do something old” – Fisk University

Since taking over Fisk University’s Race Relations Institute two years ago, Dr. Raymond Winbush has been aggressive about revitalizing the once-prominent institute and resuscitating its showpiece — an annual summer seminar which died sixteen years ago.

July 10, 2007

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Chicano generation gap: method of activism by scholars at center of NACCS schism – includes related article on Moviemiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan

Sacramento Protesting California’s anti-affirmative action Proposition 209 and the general anti-Latino and anti-immigrant mood of the state and the country, the twenty-fourth annual National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) conference kicked off with a rally here late last month at the base of the state capitol.

July 10, 2007

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Malaysian PM Says Affirmative Action Policy Still Needed To Ensure Unity

KUALA LUMPUR Malaysia Malaysia’s leader defended the country’s decades-old affirmative action policy for majority Malays, saying Tuesday it was still needed to narrow income disparity among ethnic groups and ensure national unity.

July 9, 2007

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Equal opportunity officers seek ways to defend against attacks on affirmative action – affirmative action loses political support

Houston Waning political support for affirmative action poses new obstacles for advocates and equal opportunity officers, leaders of the American Association for Affirmative Action (AAAA) said here in April at their annual conference.

July 7, 2007

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Mississippi churning – court rulings on racial inequality in higher education in Mississippi – includes related articles on court rulings in the case of Ayers v. Fordice and precedence of Hopwood v. The State of Texas – Cover Story

After twenty-two years of continuous litigation in the federal courts, the legal battle that has engulfed Mississippi’s system of higher education, Ayers v. Fordice, appears to have no end in sight. Parties on both sides of the struggle have grown weary of the case, and some say they would like to strike an agreement that would end the protracted court battles and put desegregation efforts on a clear decisive course.

July 7, 2007