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Leadership & Policy

Indiana U’s Plan to Add Name of Black Basketball Star to Building Named for a Segregationist is Opposed

The widow of the Big Ten’s first Black basketball player says no one from Indiana University ever asked her about possibly adding his name to a campus gymnasium named for a trustee who advocated segregation in the 1940s.

February 26, 2009

Leadership & Policy

Battle of Wills, Part I

Seth Harp is a Southern Republican who wants to close down two Georgia schools; but not ones you might think

January 13, 2009

Home

Carter Attorney General Griffin B. Bell dies at 90

He joined the Army in 1941, before the United States entered World War II, and served five years in the transportation corps, rising from private to major.

January 5, 2009

Students

A SPACE OF THEIR OWN

Ethnic-themed dorms offer a supportive environment for minorities, but critics say they stunt personal growth by promoting self-segregation.

December 10, 2008

HBCUs

Perspectives: Watch Night — Then and Now

It is impossible to describe the depth and range of emotions that slaves experienced on Watch Night as they waited for the minute they would be free.

November 17, 2008

Leadership & Policy

Indiana University Panel Won’t Remove Segregationist’s Name

The chairman of an Indiana University committee says the panel will recommend adding a Black basketball player’s name to a gymnasium named after a longtime trustee who advocated racial segregation in the 1940s.

November 11, 2008

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Poll: Views Still Differ Sharply by Race

Since the nation’s birth, Americans have discussed race and avoided it, organized neighborhoods and political movements around it, and used it to divide and hurt people even as relations have improved dramatically since the days of slavery, Reconstruction and legal segregation.

September 22, 2008

Sports

Hoops Hall Looks to Honor Black Schools’ Coaches

Savannah State coach Teddy Wright was so good that legends grew up around him. Like the time he supposedly split his squad in two, sending half to play a game in the Southwest and the other half to play against a school on East Coast.

September 11, 2008

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Tennessee State Freedom Riders Get Overdue Recognition

Pauline Knight was a 21-year-old college junior when the chance to help change history beckoned.

September 7, 2008

Students

Kansas University Professor Measures the Impact of Desegregation

During a recent session at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting, Dr. Argun Saatcioglu, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy and an adjunct assistant professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, asserted that desegregation increased schools’ contribution to minority success.

September 1, 2008

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House Formally Apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow

The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to Black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.

July 29, 2008

Faculty & Staff

ASU Professor Will Pursue Studies on School Choice

David Garcia, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, has been selected as a 2008-2009 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow to research the convergence of school choice and school accountability with the diversification of the Latino population in the United States.

July 8, 2008