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Gender gap – education of African Americans

Since the early 1980s, the American Council on Education (ACE) has been collecting and disseminating educational data annually on racial and ethnic minorities.Among its findings in 1996 is that students of color have posted significant gains in college enrollment and the number of degrees they earned — yet the picture is decidedly mixed for different racial and ethnic minority groups.

June 19, 2007

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. – book reviews

Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay’s memorable poem, “If We Must Die,” be-speaks the valor of men who, “hunted and penned in an inglorious spot” and “pressed to the wall, dying” must join their kinsmen, “meet the common foe” and fight back.

June 18, 2007

Black, feminist, outspoken and unintimidated – arguments for feminist concerns of Black women

Beverly Guy-Sheftal’s masterful anthology of African-American feminist thought, “Words of Fire,” is a reminder that African-American women sometimes publicly expressed feminist thought before white women did.

June 16, 2007

Life After Imus

The debate has already begun over whether hip-hop culture perpetuates the denigration of Black women.

May 2, 2007

Perspectives: ‘Hair’ We Go Again: Race Talk and Non-Authentic Dialogue

What wasn’t, and should have been, covered in the Don Imus flap. Why do we fail to look beneath the veneer, beyond the smoke and mirrors, to focus on the true issues?

April 24, 2007

Was C. DeLores Tucker Right?

More than a decade after civil rights activist Dr. C. DeLores Tucker took up a national campaign against obscenities in rap music lyrics, some scholars believe she was right in the light of the comments made by Don Imus towards the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

April 16, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Right Person Right Time

The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University, marks a diversity high point in the storied history of the nation’s oldest college.

March 21, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Right Person Right Time

The appointment of Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman named president of Harvard University…

March 21, 2007

New Documentary, Campaign Ask Youth To Critically Examine Hip Hop Culture

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. In his new documentary, “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes”, Byron Hunt presents images, samples and interviews that he hopes will expose and take apart the structures of violence, hyper-aggression and misogyny present in much of today’s hip-hop.

February 18, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Duke Professors Reject Calls to Apologize to Lacrosse Players

Increasingly under attack from newspaper editorials and online bloggers, the Duke faculty members known as “The Group of 88” posted a letter online yesterday defending themselves against accusations that they had rushed to judge the three men’s lacrosse players.

January 16, 2007

“Spiderperson 4”— Coming to a Theater Near You

Hollywood has given us “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” (1967) and “Crash” (2005)…

January 10, 2007

Faculty & Staff

AAUP: Women Professors Lag In Tenure, Salary

There are more women in full-time faculty positions than 30 years ago but research institutions are still reluctant to hire women or pay them in parity with their male hires, according to an annual report by the American Association of University Professors released today.

October 25, 2006

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