Ronald RoachSportsBlack scholars on sports: controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sports – John Hoberman, ‘Darwin’s Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race’Controversial book brings Black intellectuals together to discuss whether African Americans are preoccupied with sportsJuly 12, 2007HomeA new script for black theater: Dartmouth conference focuses on new strategiesNearly two years ago, playwright August Wilson stunned the American theatre community by charging that predominately white arts organizations were guilty of undermining African American theater companies. The charges — delivered at Princeton University before the Theatre Communications Group, a leading nonprofit theater organization–sparked a national debate about the role of African American theater companies in American theater.July 12, 2007HomeKerner Commission Report Updated by New StudyA report updating the findings of the 1968 Kerner Commission report concludes that “the rich are getting richer, the poor and working class are getting poorer, and minorities are suffering disproportionately…. A class and racial breach is widening again as we begin the new millennium.”July 12, 2007Faculty & StaffSummer camp for profs! – Faculty Resource Network, New York UniversityWhen Morris Brown College wanted faculty members to participate in a highly regarded faculty development program during the summer of 1997, school administrators turned to Dr. Kathie Stromile Golden, a newly hired political science professor in the school’s social science department, to make a pitch to her peers.July 11, 2007StudentsFreshman-year experience – preparing freshmen for college and universitiesDr. John N. Gardner remembers a time when colleges and universities paid little attention to the plight of freshmen adjusting to the rigors of college life. At the University of South Carolina (USC) in 1970, the neglect of students — especially that of freshmen — coupled with brewing anti-Vietnam War sentiment led to a student riot on the normally placid southern campus, he recalls.July 11, 2007STEMMississippi appeal refused – Ayers v. Fordice, college admission standards and black enrollmentThe refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to consider an appeal by plaintiffs in the long-running Ayers v. Fordice case has given Mississippi state officials breathing room to prove that a controversial college admissions plan is not reducing access for Blacks to the state’s public university system.July 11, 2007HomeSpeaking on jazz education: Ellis Marsalis – InterviewEllis, Marsalis, regarded by many as the best modern jazz pianist in New Orleans, is the director of the jazz studies program in the Department of Music at the University of New Orleans (UNO).July 11, 2007Faculty & StaffSchools of cool: jazz performance education providing a different kind of gig – Cover StoryJanelle Gill is confident that she has a future in jazz. The eighteen-year-old freshman pianist began jazz performance studies last semester at Howard University. Since then, she has played in the school’s big band and the small-group jazz ensembles.July 11, 2007African-AmericanAuctioning off yesterday – protest against the sale of African American historical artifacts and documentsFor Many Black Museums, It’s “Buy-Buy History”July 11, 2007Faculty & StaffSeeing no evil – Dr Shelby Steele’s speech on race-conscious affirmative action policies at the National Assn of Scholars conference in New Orleans – Cover StoryNEW ORLEANS Although academics who criticize multiculturalism often gripe about research or activism they contend represents nothing more than ideology masquerading as serious scholarly activity, a group of conservative scholars found several things to cheer about when the National Association of Scholars (NAS) honored the authors of California’s Proposition 209 and heard Dr. Shelby Steele deliver a withering critique of affirmative action.July 11, 2007Previous PagePage 38 of 55Next Page
