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Academics Hail Public Online Posting of Historic Black Newspaper’s Archives

The posting online this winter of some 1 million newspaper articles published over the past century in the historic AFRO-American newspaper is being hailed by academics as a major development in expanding the general public’s grasp of African-American life.

March 15, 2011

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Black History Month Book Special, Part I

DiverseEducation.com commemorates Black History Month with a three-part book review series, spanning a broad array of African-American-themed culture and history titles.

February 22, 2011

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Civil Rights Activists Mark 1961 Freedom Rides

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and the Rev. Reginald Green appeared at the University of Mary Washington to honor the Freedom Rides and their organizer, the late James Farmer.

February 13, 2011

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Mississippi Governor Juggles White House Hopes, State’s Past

Haley Barbour’s latest efforts to talk about civil rights and race have seen improvement, a sign that the Mississippi governor knows that if he is to carry his party’s 2012 banner against the nation’s first African-American president, he will have to be more forthright about Mississippi’s troubled history, experts say.

January 30, 2011

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Mississippi Governor: Time To Build Civil Rights Museum

Possible presidential contender Gov. Haley Barbour—under fire recently for comments that critics claim minimized the problems of Mississippi’s civil rights era—said Tuesday night that his state should build a museum dedicated to the movement.

January 13, 2011

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‘Freedom Riders’: The Fight To End Segregation

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson says his new documentary about the courageous activists who defiantly opposed the 1960s segregation of the South may help inspire a new generation of youth.

December 21, 2010

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Black Segregation in U.S. Drops to Lowest in Century

America’s neighborhoods took large strides toward racial integration in the last decade as Blacks and Whites chose to live near each other at the highest levels in a century.

December 15, 2010

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Exploring the Connection Between Residential Segregation and Health

Harvard sociologist David R. Williams argues that residential segregation by race is the fundamental cause of racial disparities in health in the United States.

November 8, 2010

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Desegregation Offers Lessons for Gay Troops Debate

Though the military may now seem to lag behind America’s acceptance of gays in civilian life, the armed forces led the charge in ending racial segregation in the 1940s and ’50s.

October 31, 2010

Leadership & Policy

University of North Carolina Celebrates 1955 Racial Integration Milestone

Fifty-five years after a federal court allowed them to register for classes by overturning the university’s racist admissions policy, John Brandon and brothers Ralph and LeRoy Frasier returned to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to be celebrated as pioneers.

September 20, 2010

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Perspective: A Fulbright Experience in Hungary

Hungary’s Roma population and Black Americans share similar social and political struggles.

August 11, 2010

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Thurgood Marshall’s Legacy Takes Center Stage in Washington

Drawing upon an extraordinary legal career and an affiliation with Howard University, the one-man play “Thurgood”, starring actor Laurence Fishburne, has opened in the nation’s capital where much of the heroic life of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall unfolded.

June 8, 2010