Julianne MalveauxHomeCan race-talk really make a difference?By the end of President Bill Clinton’s town hall meeting on race in early December, his audience had deteriorated to platitudes and cliches. I half-expected Rodney King to jump out of the Akron audience and plead, again, “Can’t we all just get along?”July 11, 2007HomeThe myth of educational attainment: when a Black woman’s master’s degree equals a White woman’s bachelor’s degree – Picataway, MJ, school board, teachers, lawsuit – ColumnThe Black Leadership Forum — an organization that includes the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the National Urban League, the National Council of Negro Women, and others — deflected energy from the controversial Taxman v. Piscataway case that the Supreme Court had committed to hear this session. The forum agreed to finance 70 percent of the nearly $450,000 settlement that the plaintiff and her lawyers will receive from the Piscataway school board.July 11, 2007HomeTelevision fiction, income reality – Speaking of EducationPopular culture has managed to seep into the curriculum at many universities. Using the lens of television, movies, billboards, and the other media methods that sell us dreams and nightmares and distort our realities, some professors are able to lead students through study and discussion about values, politics, economics, and social issues in our culture.July 11, 2007HomeThe pace of racial progress on university failuresRecent articles and events have prompted discussion about the pace and amount of racial progress in our nation.July 11, 2007African-AmericanDoes education rationing have racial undertones?For much of this summer, I have clipped a series of articles that raise questions about access to higher education. Though the articles have taken different approaches, they end up asking a similar set of questions – who should go to college and how should it be financed?July 11, 2007HomeAffirmative discrimination – nonadmission of African American students to the University of California in San Diego medical school – Speaking of Education – ColumnOne hundred and ninety-six African American students applied for medical school admission at the University of California at San Diego. Not a single one was admitted. At Boalt Hall, the University of California Law School at the Berkeley campus, only fourteen students were admitted, and just one – entering after deferring admission from last year – will attend.July 11, 2007HomeLoving life: the legacy of Betty Shabazz – ObituaryThe first time I met Betty Shabazz I was, frankly, in open-mouthed awe of her. I sort of buzzed around her, hovered in her orbit, but didn’t say a word. She had been married to Malcolm X, I told myself. And after his assassination, she raised six daughters by herself. She earned a Ph.D. as an adult, and was running a major department at Medgar Evers College. The woman must be awesome, I told myself. So I watched and I wondered when and how I could approach her and share my admiration.July 10, 2007StudentsScholarship, sisterhood, service – black women in African American fraternitiesWhen twenty-two young Black women came together at Howard University to form Delta Sigma Theta sorority, their goal was to focus on scholarship, sisterhood, and service to the African American community. A review of the sorority’s early history indicates that these young women, and the ones who followed them, did exactly that.July 10, 2007HomeTechnology necessary but not sufficient for parityIt is five in the morning and night is fading into dawn. I am in my favorite place at my favorite time–hunched over my computer before morning light, stringing together sentences in the same way that a child strings beads on thread, trying to make sense and create resonance from words.July 10, 2007SportsThe true significance of sports for Black AmericansI am not a sports fan. I’ve written that so many times it seems redundant to write it again. No, this is not another sports-bashing column. Been there, done that. This is a column about the context of sports, about the reasons why sports has been so important for African American people.July 6, 2007Previous PagePage 2 of 6Next Page
