James Michael BrodieStudentsIdentity bank: research institute launched by College Fund/UNCF has a big job ahead of it – United Negro College FundFormer Congressman William H. Gray III has to look no further than his battles on the floor of the U.S., House of Representatives over race-specific scholarships in justifying how key the College Fund/United Negro College Fund’s newly created Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute can be to Black America.June 17, 2007Home‘Feel good history’: scholars debate AfrocentrismOne of the more controversial debates now going on in intellectual circles is over Afrocentrism, a movement that argues that traditional history has undervalued the contributions of Black Africa to ancient Greek and Western thought. At the center of the debate are Afrocentrists and those attacking them, most recently Mary Lefkowitz, who wrote “Not Out of Africa.”June 16, 2007StudentsOn-line and loving it – historically Black colleges and universities going on-line to lure students and research funding – Recruitment & RetentionNew Students, Research Dollars Lured via Internet Web Pages by a Growing Number of HBCUs.June 15, 2007Page 1 of 1