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Leadership & Policy

A Voice for Access and Equity

A Voice for Access and EquityAfter serving on the Georgia board of regents for 30 years, Elridge McMillan is honored with lifetime achievement awardBy Tracie PowellATLANTAWhen Elridge McMillan became the second Black trustee to serve on the University of Georgia System Board of Regents in 1975, his Afro and past advocacy made colleagues think he […]

February 23, 2005

U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in Prisons

U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in PrisonsWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court took up a racial segregation case last month that asks if Black California inmates are being unconstitutionally bunked together for months at a time, in the name of keeping prisons safe. The Bush administration has sided with a Black convicted killer who claims […]

December 1, 2004

Playing Catch Up

Playing Catch UpWhenever I read about national shortages of qualified professionals in critical fields, such as health care and technology, I can’t help but think about the tragic legacy of segregation and discrimination in the United States. I believe that had African Americans enjoyed the full range of educational and career opportunities experienced by Whites […]

November 17, 2004

Ayers Case Ends After Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Appeal

Ayers Case Ends After Supreme Court Refuses to Hear AppealJACKSON, MISS.The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of a Mississippi college desegregation lawsuit, ending a 29-year-old legal battle over state support of three historically Black universities. Officials say the state can now enforce a $503 million settlement designed to correct past neglect […]

November 3, 2004

Water Leak Delays Planned Opening

Water Leak Delays Planned Opening Of Greensboro Civil Rights MuseumGREENSBORO, N.C. A water leak will probably delay the opening of a planned civil rights museum by at least three or four months and add up to $200,000 to the cost, organizers says. The $10 million International Civil Rights Center and Museum in downtown Greensboro had […]

November 3, 2004

African-American

Report: Uncertain Future for African Americans Despite Past Gains

Report: Uncertain Future for African Americans Despite Past GainsWASHINGTONWhile important gains have been made during the past decade, African Americans still have a long way to go to achieve equality in America, according to a new report by UCLA professor Michael Stoll. While the 1960s through the 1980s were characterized with gains in civil rights, […]

September 22, 2004

Failing Our Black Children

Failing Our Black ChildrenThis year marks the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, which theoretically ended school segregation in America. But many schools are as segregated today as they were before the ruling, and Black children throughout the United States are performing at the bottom of the American educational system. The nation’s capital, […]

September 22, 2004

The Road to Racial Equality

The Road to Racial EqualityI was born in 1954 just four months after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision outlawed the “separate but equal” doctrine of school segregation. That one fact has shaped my life immeasurably. Howard University, Morris College, Spelman College and what was then called Atlanta University and Tuskegee Institute […]

June 30, 2004

Where the Boys Aren’t

Where the Boys Aren’t The decline of Black males in colleges and universities has sociologists and educators concerned about the future of the African American communityBy David HefnerWhen sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois wrote these words more than 100 years ago, life in America was infinitely different for Blacks. For all its evils, segregation offered the […]

June 16, 2004

A Delayed Victory

A Delayed VictorySouthern University awards student protesters honorary degrees nearly 50 years after expulsionBy Scott DyerBATON ROUGE, La.Forty-four years after expelling them for participating in sit-ins at three racially segregated restaurants, Southern University invited the 16 former students back to the historically Black campus to receive honorary degrees at its spring commencement.During the ceremony last […]

June 16, 2004

Faculty & Staff

A Case in Point

A Case in PointSimple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for EqualityBy Richard Kluger, Vintage Books, April 2004, 865 pp., $24.00, trade paperback, 1-4000-3061-7Simple Justice is described as the definitive history of the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education and the epic struggle for racial equality in […]

May 19, 2004

Commemorating Brown

Commemorating BrownThis is a list of events from selected institutions leading up to the 50th anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education• Bucknell University 12/03-4/04: “Brown at 50,” a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision•Harvard University Law School 4/13/04: panel discussion: Reflections on the Jurisprudence of Justice Thurgood Marshall: A View from […]

May 19, 2004

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