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University of Delaware Halts Controversial Diversity Program

DOVER, Del. Amid growing public scrutiny, the University of Delaware last week halted a controversial residence hall program that critics say tried to force students to accept university-approved ideologies on moral and social issues.

November 4, 2007

University of Delaware Accused of Indoctrinating Students

DOVER Del. The University of Delaware has come under fire by a civil rights group that claims the school is trying to force dormitory residents to adopt university-approved ideologies on moral and social issues.

October 30, 2007

Antioch Alumni Try to Keep Ohio College Open

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign that reads: “Office of Transition.”

October 23, 2007

Alumni Scramble to Keep Antioch College Open

YELLOW SPRINGS Ohio Hanging by a chain from the ceiling in the main hallway of Antioch Hall is a black sign: “Office of Transition.”

October 21, 2007

Perspectives: Racist Cartoon Art Imitates Life

Last week The Recorder, a non-official student newspaper distributed at Central Connecticut State College, ran an explicitly sexual cartoon about urinating on a 14-year-old Latina being held prisoner that set a new level for campus racism and sexism.

September 18, 2007

Daughters of Thunder. – book reviews

Daughters of Thunder is a wonderful compilation of thirty-eight first-time-published sermons of fourteen African American female preachers, many of whom were the first African American females to pastor churches, receive ordination, and be granted terminal degrees.

July 12, 2007

Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! – book reviews

I’m warning you, once you open this compact collection of six razor-sharp essays, you’re going to have to stand back! Black, White, Yellow, Brown, Red, male, female, straight, gay, college-educated, streetwise, conservative, liberal, whatever – it doesn’t matter. From the initial essay detailing Robin D. G. Kelley’s take on how traditional social scientists construct the ghetto, “Looking for the ‘Real’ Nigga,” to the final take, “Looking B[l]ackward: 2097-1997,” readers of Yo’ Mama’s Disfunktional! are literally compelled by the strength of Kelley’s arguments to identify and/or re-think their positions in the contemporary “culture wars” fray.

July 11, 2007

Sister Power: How Phenomenal Black Women Are Rising to the Top. – book reviews

In April, Americans from all walks of life gathered in Philadelphia to answer the nation’s first peacetime bipartisan “call.”

July 10, 2007

UC professor wins gender discrimination lawsuit – University of California at Santa Barbara Professor Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez

One day last fall, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) Professor Yolanda Broyles-Gonzalez woke up and decided she was not going to take it anymore.

July 10, 2007

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

Community Colleges

California faces a watershed election issue – Proposition 209

A bottle and rock-throwing melee at a California college last month returned the spotlight to the state’s initiative to end affirmative action.

June 23, 2007

Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media: From Mass to Class Communication. – book reviews

By Clint C. Wilson II and Felix Gutierrez, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA, 1995. 290 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper “Race, Multiculturalism, and the Media” reads like a textbook: that is both its strength and its weakness.

June 20, 2007

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