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Pathways to Displacement

Pathways to DisplacementAlthough the interstate highway system is a valuable asset for Americans, one researcher argues that its construction during the racially charged 1950s and 1960s increased segregation among urban populations.Dr. Ray Mohl, the history department chair at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, studies the development of the nation’s interstates and their effect on […]

August 30, 2000

HBCUs

More Must be Done for Minority Education

More Must be Done for Minority EducationBlack Issues has performed a great service for the American people by sharing the results of its annual survey on  African Americans who have earned college degrees. Behind these data are great stories of human sacrifice, faith, perseverance, hard work, luck, love and dedication. The force of history also […]

June 21, 2000

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Mandela Touts Education on Louisiana Tour

Mandela Touts Education on Louisiana TourBATON ROUGE, LA. — In his first trip to the deep South last month, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela repeatedly emphasized the importance of education, particularly to Black communities struggling to shed the remnants of racial segregation.When an African American girl from a local high school asked the former […]

June 7, 2000

HBCUs

Eliminating the Last Vestiges of Segregation

Eliminating the Last Vestiges of SegregationI was recently asked to speak at the annual President’s Leadership Summit of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and provide the group with an update of federal higher education desegregation activity. The question-and-answer period that followed my presentation impressed upon me the need for broader clarification regarding federal policy on […]

June 7, 2000

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Panel Offers Diversity Goals For Texas HBCUs

Panel Offers Diversity Goals For Texas HBCUs Austin, Texas — A Texas panel has recommended ways for the state’s two historically Black public universities to erase findings by federal officials that traces of segregation linger in Texas higher education.Called “Priority Plan 2000,” the panel capped six months of talks by suggesting that Texas Southern and […]

May 24, 2000

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Golf Books’ Authors Miss a Few Shots, but Play Good Rounds

Golf Books’ Authors Miss a Few Shots, but Play Good Rounds When Tiger Woods came onto the Professional Golf Association tour in 1996, there were no full-time African American players on the tour. Jim Thorpe, the last Black player with a regular tour card, was a part-time member of the regular tour, awaiting his 50th […]

April 26, 2000

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As Different as Day and Night

As Different as Day and NightMissouri’s historically Black Lincoln University, now predominantly White, searches for a way to bring its two divergent populations together.JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — There’s a saying here at Lincoln University: “White by day, Black by night.” A hilly, picturesque campus with 3,343 students enrolled this fall, Lincoln was founded by Black Civil […]

January 5, 2000

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BI News Briefs

Less Segregation on Campus Today, Study SaysPONTIAC, Mich. — College students today are less likely to segregate themselves by race than they once were, according to a Ford Foundation report.Increased campus diversity and special programs have made students comfortable enough to cross racial and ethnic barriers in academic, political, organizational and social situations, according to […]

November 24, 1999