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African-American

Coca-Cola To Donate Atlanta Land for Civil Rights Museum

ATLANTA The Coca-Cola Co. announced Monday it would donate $10 million worth of prime downtown land to the city for a planned civil rights museum in the home town of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

October 23, 2006

Home

Beating the Diversity Drum

Corporate executive and former Princeton University trustee Mellody Hobson is an example of someone having…

October 18, 2006

African-American

Bill Cosby Urges Black Support For Slavery Museum

Bill Cosby, who more than two years ago urged African-Americans to take more responsibility for their neighborhoods and children, says Blacks should be similarly responsible for building the national slavery museum in Fredericksburg, Va.

September 27, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Virginia’s Randolph-Macon Woman’s College Considers Admitting Men

The Randolph-Macon Woman’s College board of trustees will vote tomorrow (Saturday) on whether to admit male students for the first time in the institution’s 115-year history.

September 6, 2006

Native Americans

Tribal College Close to Collapse

DAVIS, Calif. On a remote stretch of land where stray chickens outnumber students, California’s only tribal college is clinging to life against seemingly insurmountable odds.

August 12, 2006

Leadership & Policy

Morris Brown Hanging On In Wake of Scandal

Three years ago, the massive crowd at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, on hand to witness the Honda Battle of the Bands…

July 12, 2006

HBCUs

NCCU Goes on Offense: We’re Not a “Poor Cousin” to Duke

In its coverage of the Duke University men’s lacrosse rape story, the media for months have contrasted the elite…

July 12, 2006

Students

A Favorable Prognosis

Dr. Keith Amos’ undying support for his undergrad alma mater, Xavier University of Louisiana…

July 12, 2006

Leadership & Policy

A Favorable Prognosis

Dr. Keith Amos’ undying support for his undergrad alma mater, Xavier University of Louisiana, took an unusual turn last year in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina…

July 11, 2006

Students

King Papers Position Morehouse For Change

Morehouse College stands to gain much more than the 10,000 documents in the collection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s writings bought by a coalition of business leaders, individuals and philanthropic leaders in Atlanta.

July 2, 2006

Students

Demanding Divestment From Sudan

Bowing to student demands to “stop supporting genocide,” the University of California regents voted earlier this year to divest…

June 28, 2006

Students

NCCU Goes on Offense: We’re Not a “Poor Cousin” to Duke

In its coverage of the Duke University men’s lacrosse rape story, the media for months has contrasted the elite, privileged world of Duke with the struggling-to-get-by image of the historically Black North Carolina Central University, where the alleged rape victim is a student.

June 26, 2006