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Student Immigrants Use Civil Rights-era Strategies

Students fighting laws that target undocumented immigrants are taking a page from the civil rights era, adopting tactics and gathering praise from the generation of demonstrators who marched in the streets and sat at segregated lunch counters.

June 2, 2010

African-American

Kellogg Foundation Commits $75M To Combat Racial Inequality

The Kellogg Foundation has inaugurated an ambitious nationwide campaign to combat racial and ethnic inequality with a five-year, $75 million commitment to award grants to support organizations working to fight racism.

May 11, 2010

Students

Leaders Mark 50th Anniversary of Nashville Sit-ins

Civil rights leaders observing Saturday’s 50th anniversary of the sit-in movement that would integrate Nashville’s lunch counters said that pivotal group of college students went on to become leaders in the civil rights movement across the South.

February 14, 2010

African-American

Protesters Reflect on Success of Student Sit-ins

Fifty years ago today, four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store, bought a few items, then sat down at the “Whites only” lunch counter and sparked a wave of civil rights protest that changed America.

January 31, 2010

African-American

Scholar Renders Deft History of Civil Rights Era

Historian Andrew B. Lewis chronicles the roles of a band of young people who gave new direction and courage to the civil rights movement in The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation.

December 20, 2009

African-American

Reforms Across Multiple Policy Areas Key to Eliminating Health Disparities, Experts Say

A panel of health policy experts Tuesday told congressional staff members and policy professionals that, while health care reform could play a powerful role in reducing health disparities between minorities and Whites, major policy reform in areas such as housing, transportation, agriculture and labor will also prove necessary to close the health care gap.

October 20, 2009

Students

LEGAL BATTLES CONTINUE IN FIGHT FOR EQUITY IN MARYLAND HIGHER EDUCATION

In an ongoing struggle to right past wrongs, lawyers, community activists and students are awaiting their chance in court to make all Maryland universities equal and to reverse policies they say serve to weaken HBCUs.

September 2, 2009

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Classes Start For Local Universities

Students at the University of Georgia, Georgia Tech, Georgia State and other metro Atlanta colleges and universities begin classes on Monday.  According to CBS Atlanta, officials expect to enroll more than 30,000 students at George State, which would be a university record and an 8 percent increase over last fall. As part of that 30,000, […]

August 16, 2009

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Government Intervention Needed on School Segregation, Experts Say

Reversing the resegregation of many of the nation’s school districts may require congressional leadership and the president’s attention, said lawyers, policymakers and educators assembled on Capitol Hill Friday to discuss policies that would encourage more integrated schools.

June 14, 2009

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Suburban Schools See Limited Hispanic Integration

Hispanic students have become more segregated in suburban public schools over the last decade, even while Blacks and Asians have become slightly less isolated, according to a new study.

March 31, 2009

HBCUs

HBCUs: Segregated, But Not Segregating

Those who seek to bring more Whites into historically Black colleges should suggest constructive solutions for improving the quality of these institutions.

March 8, 2009

HBCUs

HBCUs: Segregated, But Not Segregating

Those who seek to bring more Whites into historically Black colleges should suggest constructive solutions for improving the quality of these institutions.

March 4, 2009