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Special Report: Black History Month

No Turning Back: Marking 50 years of progress since walls segregation fell at Southern institutions

February 13, 2013

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New MOOC Expands Civil Rights Instruction

Civil rights historian and award-winning author Taylor Branch is on a mission to make the Civil Rights Movement more prominent in higher education—and he’s teaching a new MOOC on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to do it.

January 27, 2013

HBCUs

Commentary: Could End of Affirmative Action Be Boon for Black Colleges?

Students should choose HBCUs based not on attenuation of opportunities, but on tangible benefits these institutions confer, writes Taylor, an HBCU graduate.

September 26, 2012

HBCUs

Lecture: Learning, Educational Attainment Rest on Belief in Students

Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings offered polite criticism, weighty research insights, and humor on Thursday at the Eighth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research in Washington.

October 27, 2011

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Civil Rights Leader Fred Shuttlesworth Dies

The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and tenacity, has died at age 89.

October 5, 2011

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Tulsa Remembered

During the events surrounding the John Hope Franklin Park groundbreaking in November 2008, the late Dr. Franklin, in one of his last public interviews, talks about his hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of the newly dedicated park, and his long held hope for racial harmony in the U.S. (video courtesy of the John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation.)

September 1, 2011

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Gov. Haley Barbour Apologizes to Activists Arrested in Mississippi

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has apologized to dozens of civil rights activists who were carted off to the state’s notorious Parchman prison in the 1960s for attempting to desegregate interstate travel.

May 23, 2011

Students

Fifty Years Later, Students Retrace 1961 Freedom Ride

Forty college students chosen from nearly 1,000 applicants have joined a handful of the original Freedom Riders on an eight-day journey from Washington, D.C., through the South.

May 9, 2011

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Women From Historic Student Civil Rights Group Tell Their Story

Through a new book published by the University of Illinois Press, a diverse group of SNCC alumnae write themselves into the annals of the civil rights movement.

March 27, 2011

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New NAACP Seeing Diverse Chapter Leaders

NAACP branches have been recruiting gays, immigrants and young people who grew up in a world far removed from the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling that outlawed school segregation.

March 23, 2011

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Census: More Blacks in South Moving to Suburbs

African-Americans in the South are shunning city life for the suburbs at the highest levels in decades, rapidly integrating large metropolitan areas that were historically divided between inner-city Blacks and suburban Whites.

March 20, 2011

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A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste — Except in Ohio?

Ohio mother’s jailing and felony conviction calls attention to resegregation of public schools and lack of parental choice.

March 15, 2011