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Fired Alabama A&M Professor Claims Racial Discrimination

HUNTSVILLE Ala. A former Alabama A&M assistant professor has filed a federal lawsuit claiming he was fired because of racial discrimination.

July 8, 2007

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Hopwood and Ayers v. Fordice: the beginning of the end? – legal implications of court rulings on desegregation in higher education

Over the years, courts have attempted to leave education to the educators. But with courts now taking the Hopwood approach, colleges could find themselves tangled in a legal web.

July 7, 2007

Students

Clearly understanding the affirmative action debate

Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action and American Values by Christopher Edley Jr. Farra, Straus and Giroux, 1996 New York 294 pages Hardback: $25.00

July 7, 2007

Sports

In Black and White: Race and Sports in America. – book reviews

Like former talk-show host Arsenio Hall, Kenneth L. Shropshire, in his excellent book, In Black and White: Race and Sports in America, discusses things that make you go “HMMMMM?”

July 6, 2007

STEM

Office for Civil Rights puts Texas on notice – investigation to determine Texas’ compliance with a Civil Rights provision

While Texas state officials scramble to adopt race-neutral admissions and financial aid policies in the state’s public higher education system? the U.S. Department of Education has opened an inquiry to determine whether the state is complying with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

July 6, 2007

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A military strategy for combatting institutional racism

Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler’s pioneering study of Black leadership development and racial integration in the United States Army provides the reader with a glimpse into an institution that, while not utopian, has achieved remarkable success in race relations. That success was achieved because the U.S. Army developed policies which supported a philosophy that believed an absolute commitment to nondiscrimination and uncompromising standards of performance are absolutely necessary for achieving its goals. Indeed, the Army was able to relate nondiscrimination to goal attainment, which may be the key to solving many of the racial problems in contemporary American society.

July 4, 2007

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ABA Conference the Stage for Affirmative Action Debate

BOSTON Is the dearth of minority lawyers at elite law firms a result of racism or of faulty affirmative action programs? In a debate yesterday, David B. Wilkins, a Harvard University law professor, and Richard H. Sander, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, sought to address the reasons for Black underrepresentation in elite law firms. In 2005, non-White attorneys made up only 4.6 percent of partners at the nation’s largest law firms, according to the National Association for Law Placement.

June 28, 2007

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Seattle parent feels ‘vindicated’ by Supreme Court school ruling

SEATTLE Kathleen Brose never understood why the Seattle School Board wanted to use race in assigning students to public high schools, especially when students from so many backgrounds already attended each.

June 27, 2007

Sports

Documentary creators sue filmmakers over Marshall University movie

HUNTINGTON W.Va. The creators of the award-winning documentary “Ashes to Glory” have filed a $40 million lawsuit alleging the makers of the Hollywood film “We Are Marshall” stole their ideas and research.

June 27, 2007

Women

Former nun invokes Title IX in bias battle against Gannon U.

DATELINE: ERIE Pa. A former Catholic nun whose discrimination claim against Gannon University was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court is trying revive it by invoking a law best known for requiring schools to provide equal athletic opportunities for men and women.

June 27, 2007

Leadership & Policy

Central State University: what happened? – financial crisis in Central State University, Ohio

WILBERFORCE, OHIO Dr. Herman B. Smith Jr. stepped onto Central State University’s campus in early 1995 with hope, ambition and a clear idea of the task he faced.

June 26, 2007

Health

Miracles – political and medical – in South Africa

Some U.S. congressional leaders are calling projects funded by the United States Agency for International Develop it (USAID) at historically Black American institutions working in South Africa examples of “reverse discrimination.”

June 23, 2007