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Exhibition Education: Atlanta History Center program introduces black students to the museum world – includes related article on funding for black museum

Every year millions of visitors flock to the more than 8,000 museums across the United States. From house museums and storefront galleries to the venerable Smithsonian Institution, these varied treasuries affirm and transmit our nation’s complex history and cultural values.

July 10, 2007

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Beyond Black & White: Transforming African American Politics. – book reviews

In the twenty-nine years since the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which marked the end of the Civil Rights Movement and the ascendancy of conservatism as the dominant force in national politics, many scholars and intellectuals have struggled mightily to explain “what has happened” to Black people. As the millennium approaches, academia, and we as a society, have been confronted with the issue of racism and have sought to re-examine those public policies which have directly impacted the quality of the Black American experience.

July 10, 2007

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Ford Fellows Fund established to increase minority participation in Ph.D. program

At the 1993 annual conference of minority recipients of the Ford Foundation’s Fellowship Fund for doctoral candidates and graduates, Dr. Bai Akridge asked this question of the participants: “If we’ve agreed that this program is so important to us, why aren’t we doing something to help ourselves, too?”

July 10, 2007

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Holding on to African American history

For decades, white institutions and a handful of historically Black college and university (HBCU) archives have served as the main repositories for document and artifacts that tell the story of the history and contributions of people of African descent. But countless other pieces of Black America’s historical fabric are collecting dust in church basements or crumbling on bookshelves.

July 10, 2007

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Historically Black, Majority White Schools Unite to Boost Minority STEM Degrees

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Four historically Black North Carolina colleges and universities will partner with four majority White counterparts in Virginia to double the average number of minorities completing degrees in science, technology, engineering and math.

July 8, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Dillard’s Cook put hearts and minds to work – Dillard University Pres Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook

In September 1986, then-Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone shocked many Americans when he asserted that America was intellectually inferior to Japan “because of a considerable number of Blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans.”

July 5, 2007

African-American

Patterson Research Institute reports on educational profile of African Americans

Late last month, as part of a highly ambitious research effort on African American education, the first volume in a series of reports on the state of education in Black America was released.

July 4, 2007

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Following the leaders – the establishment of Leadership Development Centers in historically Black colleges and universities

Leadership Development Becomes Priority for Many Institutions

July 4, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Ebonics IQI. What have we learned ? – use of Ebonics language to teach African American children – Cover Story

The Ebonics controversy in Oakland, California, took many people by surprise. Most had never heard of Ebonics before December 18, 1996, and once they did, few understood what the school district meant when it expressed its intent to use this new “language” to teach the district’s African American children.

July 4, 2007

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Studies question value of U.S. nutrition education programs

PANORAMA CITY Calif. The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.

July 4, 2007

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Passing the test – free coaching classes for minority student-athletes to enter colleges

Subpar performances on standardized tests have dashed more than a few hopes and dreams of minority athletes who wanted to go to college. But now, some much needed help is available and student-athletes stand to benefit immensely.

July 4, 2007

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Black studies comes to power? – importance of a series of conferences to African American Studies

Four conferences important to African American Studies were held this fall. Columbia University’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies hosted “The Future of African-American Studies Theory, Pedagogy, and Research;” New York University’s Africana Studies Program and Institute of Afro-American Affairs sponsored “Finding Fanon: Critical Genealogies;” Temple University held the Eighth Annual Cheikh Anta Diop Conference with the theme “The Impact and Significance of the Works of Dr. Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga;” and the National Council for Black Studies held its annual meeting at Gallaudet University, this year titled “Celebrating Thirty Years of Black Studies/Africana Studies: A Legacy of Leadership, Learning and Change.”

July 4, 2007