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Is Environmental Racism a Myth?

A new environmental inequality study suggests that racial disparities in housing and income may not be why heavily minority areas tend to be more polluted.

July 16, 2007

BI What’s New

Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation is hosting an exhibit titled, “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South.”

July 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Measuring standards measuring success – Miles To Go report from Southern Education Foundation criticized

Two discouraging reports on educational progress, or the lack thereof, emerged in the last couple of weeks. The first was Miles To Go from the Southern Education Foundation (see cover story, “The Long, Winding, And Neglected Road”), which documents the continuing effects of segregation and the new effects of the anti-affirmative action backlash on African Americans in the South. The second was the latest report from the College Board of the latest SAT scores (see story, page 24), which showed a drop in average scores for African Americans.

July 14, 2007

Faculty & Staff

Professors want affirmative action back – University of California at Berkeley faculty

Berkeley, Calif. A group of University of California-Berkeley faculty members — alarmed about plunging admissions of African Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos in the aftermath of California’s Proposition 209 — are the latest group to urge passage of a new, student-authored measure called the Equal Educational Opportunity Initiative (EEOI).

July 12, 2007

Harvard Civil Rights Project Gets $500,000 Grant

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The Harvard Civil Rights Project — headed by Christopher Edley Jr., former advisor to President Bill Clinton and current law professor, and Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy — announced earlier this month that it had received a $500,000 grant from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

July 12, 2007

Race board finds consensus elusive on public schools – President’s Advisory Board on Race

WASHINGTON The President’s Advisory Board on Race recently found that no national discussion on race in public schools is complete without conservatives invoking the controversial issue of education vouchers for poor children.

July 11, 2007

March planned to support affirmative action: Latino law students and professors confront threat of limited access

Albequerque, N.M. A gathering here last month of organizations representing Latino law students agreed to form a national organization to support a pro-affirmative action march, scheduled for January in San Francisco, being organized by legal educators.

July 11, 2007

One Blood: The Death and Resurrection of Charles R. Drew. – book reviews

One of my best literary friends is crime investigator author Dan Moldea. Often interviewed on national television, Moldea is the author of The Hoffa Wars. The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy, and Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Simpson. When examining a mysterious case in which a well known person has died, Moldea told me his first objective is to get to the basic facts – review the public record, examine the physical evidence, and talk to all possible sources and witnesses.

July 11, 2007

Forthcoming ETS Report proclaims the importance of HBCUs – Educational Testing Service; Historically Black Colleges and Universities – includes related article on ETS Report

WASHINGTON Every time the public funding of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is discussed, the same question arises: Now that colleges and universities are no longer segregated, why should a separate system of colleges and universities, begun in the time of segregation, be maintained?

July 11, 2007

Taking Jim Crow out of uniform: A. Philip Randolph and the desegregation of the U.S. military – Special Report: The Integrated Military – 50 Years

Nearly fifty years ago, during his reelection campaign, President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 ordering the “equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services.”

July 11, 2007

The enforcer: an interview with Raymond C. Pierce – civil rights chief at US Dept of Education – Interview

In a span of nearly four years, Raymond C. Pierce, Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education, has supervised some 600 civil rights compliance reviews of school districts across the nation. His portfolio in higher education has included managing policy development on issues ranging from gender fairness in intercollegiate athletics to race-targeted scholarships to higher education desegregation.

July 10, 2007

Chat Transcripts (Unedited): “US Supreme Court and Desegregation”

See the full unedited transcript of our June 10, 2007 chat event, focusing on the Supreme Court’s recent ruling and its implications for equal access to education.

July 10, 2007

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