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Failed Party Promotion Underscores Color Divide Between US Black Women

DETROIT Yasmine Toney describes herself as a “dark-skinned sista.” So when she heard about a recent club promotion in Detroit, allowing all-night free admission to Black women with fair or light skin, she was incensed.

October 21, 2007

Women Filling Some University Classes at Higher Rate

FORT WAYNE, Ind. As a single man, Alex O’Shaughnessey doesn’t mind being outnumbered by women. At least not at school, he says.

October 14, 2007

Remixed and Reloaded

Spelman College’s Museum of Fine Art is presenting a groundbreaking exhibition of video art by Black women artists.

October 2, 2007

Rhode Island College to pay $5,000 in dispute over free speech

PROVIDENCE R.I. A public college will pay $5,000 to a women’s group that filed suit claiming its free speech rights were violated when campus police removed signs that read “Keep your rosaries off our ovaries.”

September 24, 2007

Sudanese MSU student sets up project to educate country’s women

MURRAY Ky. Gabriel Akech Kwai was 7 years old when his father was murdered in Northern Sudan. His home country was then divided during a civil war that eventually forced him to travel with the 33,000 other Lost Boys of Sudan to Ethiopia and later to a Kenyan refugee camp.

September 16, 2007

Princeton seeks more students, more diversity

PRINCETON N.J. With a $136 million complex of Collegiate Gothic-style stone buildings that feature huge, mahogany-trimmed dorm rooms, an art gallery and a 65-seat theater, Princeton University is preparing for its biggest increase in undergraduate enrollment since it started admitting women.

September 16, 2007

Study Finds Why Breast Cancer Is More Deadly in Black Women

A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in Black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.

September 6, 2007

Kansas women’s team goes 3-1 on Australian exhibition trip

LAWRENCE Kan. The 400-foot climb to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge didn’t bother Danielle McCray all that much.

August 15, 2007

Arkansas-Pine Bluff hires Mazza as women’s soccer coach

PINE BLUFF Ark. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff has hired Roberto Mazza as coach of its women’s soccer team.

August 13, 2007

NCC will offer tech scholarships to lure women, minorities

BETHLEHEM Pa. Northampton Community College will start offering scholarships to lure low-income, minority and women students who are underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

August 6, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Minority Junior Professors Less Satisfied With Campus Climate Than White Professors

Minority professors at both private and public institutions are not as satisfied as their White counterparts with their institutions. According to a report by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education, or COACHE, campus climate plays a significant role in the satisfaction disparity.

August 6, 2007

Confidence in the face of controversy – Marie V. McDemmond – Cover Story – Interview

The view of Norfolk State University’s 120-acre campus, as seen from the ceiling-to-floor window in the office of the president, is deceptive. In the foreground, sit the neatly, manicured lawn and sparkling aquamarine pool of the school’s red-brick presidential residence. The scene reveals nothing to suggest this is an institution struggling to recover from a multimillion-dollar fiscal deficit.

July 13, 2007

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