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Housing Benjamin Mays’ Legacy

Housing Benjamin Mays’ LegacySouth Carolina artist brings national attention to educator’s dilapidated houseThe late Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays was one of the most influential educators in American history. He was the spiritual mentor for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and among the most prominent presidents of Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was the first to […]

February 13, 2002

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Cuba’s Intellectual Blockade: U.S. Embargo or Cuban Censorship?

Cuba’s Intellectual Blockade: U.S. Embargo or Cuban Censorship?By Mae HendersonR ecently, I had the opportunity, for a second time, to visit the small island nation of Cuba. I first went there during the 1970s, when I was a graduate student, and saw that nearest, and most distant, of neighboring countries. During a rare window of […]

November 7, 2001

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Adam’s Mark Faces New Accusations of Racial Bias

Adam’s Mark Faces New Accusations of Racial BiasBlack College Reunion participant says Daytona Beach, Fla., hotel was hostile to Black guestsBy Erik Lords A year after receiving scads of negative publicity resulting from a racial discrimination settlement, the Adam’s Mark Hotel in Daytona Beach, Fla., faces new accusations of racial bias from a participant in […]

April 25, 2001

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Distance Education Course to Explore African

Distance Education Course to Explore African And African American ArtWhen Dr. Grace Hampton took a sabbatical leave to research university-based art education and traditional art in Nigeria and Ghana, she regarded the opportunity as a means to emotionally and spiritually renew herself after holding academic administrative posts at Penn State University for much of the […]

April 11, 2001

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Art Collector Donates Extensive Collection of African American Art to University of Delaware

Art Collector Donates Extensive Collection of African American Art to University of Delaware NEWARK, Del. A prominent collector of works by modern Black artists says integration was the reason he chose the University of Delaware, and not a historically Black college, as the home for his 1,000-piece collection. The collection was given to the university […]

March 28, 2001

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The Color of Money

The Color of MoneyArtist Re-Creates Scenes of Slavery Found On Confederate CurrencyBy Linda Meggett BrownCHARLESTON, S.C.One day, as artist John W. Jones worked at a print shop in South Carolina, he discovered some old Confederate currency that featured a picture of slaves picking cotton. Jones knew that the economy of the Old South depended on […]

March 28, 2001

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The Politics of Art

The Politics of ArtPaul R. Jones chose to donate his extensive collection of African American art to the University of Delaware, but not without making sure an HBCU would benefit. By Robin V. SmilesOn more than one occasion Paul R. Jones has been entangled in some of America’s most politically and racially charged events of […]

March 28, 2001

Leadership & Policy

A Long, Protracted Struggle

A Long, Protracted StruggleThe long and protracted struggle to bring Black colleges up to speed with their White counterparts is one of those stories that just will not go away. And why should it given the fact that higher education so effectively mirrors our society as a whole. As long as there are disparities in […]

March 28, 2001

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Preserving Black Art On Campus

Preserving Black Art On CampusA traveling exhibit displaying some of the rare treasures in historically Black college art collections also explains the delicate process that went into their restoration \When art curators Dr. Richard Powell and Jock Reynolds first discovered a murky portrait of a Black man, inauspiciously stowed in a storeroom of the Howard […]

February 16, 2000

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Unity Mural Gets New Life

Unity Mural Gets New LifeSan Francisco City College Discovers New Lessons in Valuable Campus Mural SAN FRANCISCO — College officials say they can’t believe it was at one point almost forgotten, an important work of art packed away in crates and placed in some out-of-the-way nook or cranny here at one of the nation’s largest […]

November 10, 1999

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Fall Follies, Myths and Statues

Fall Follies, Myths and StatuesAutumn brings us changing leaves, but it also brings the opportunity to   review some of the myths that lie at the heart of our nation’s foundation.It offers the opportunity, in transition and change, to question ourselves and the lessons we teach and the ways that our teaching shapes national myths.What toddler […]

October 27, 1999

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Learning From Wilt And Milt

Learning From Wilt And MiltI was among those stunned earlier this month at the news that basketball superstar Wilt Chamberlain and jazz legend Milt Jackson had died within days of each other. Chamberlain’s giant feet trampled over me once at a track and field meet that I and a few athletes he was mentoring  were […]

October 27, 1999