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More Than Just Money

More Than Just MoneyCommitted partners can be worth their weight in gold when an institution is trying to improve. Just ask Hampton University.By Cheryl D. Fields HAMPTON, Va.Money is often viewed as the biggest obstacle to upgrading an institution’s campus and/or academic programs. In tight economic times, institutions often end up postponing, scaling back or […]

November 6, 2002

More Than Just Money

More Than Just MoneyCommitted partners can be worth their weight in gold when an institution is trying to improve. Just ask Hampton University.By Cheryl D. Fields HAMPTON, Va.Money is often viewed as the biggest obstacle to upgrading an institution’s campus and/or academic programs. In tight economic times, institutions often end up postponing, scaling back or […]

November 6, 2002

Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore

Michigan: A Case the Supreme Court Cannot Ignore Speculation now on how justices will voteBy Erik LordsCINCINNATIMany legal experts across the nation agree that the University of Michigan Law School’s affirmative action case will wind up before the U.S. Supreme Court as early as next year. But their opinions vary widely on how the high […]

June 5, 2002

Michigan State’s Black Graduation Ceremony Criticized

Michigan State’s Black Graduation Ceremony CriticizedEast Lansing, Mich.Critics are taking aim at a new, optional Michigan State University event that will honor Black graduating seniors next month, saying it is unfair and promoting separatism. In one of several letters sent to the MSU student newspaper, Michael Cykowski, a senior computer science major, wrote: “What would […]

April 24, 2002

For Everything There is a Season

For Everything There is a SeasonEcclesiastes 3:1With the debate about reparations for African Americans heating up in the past few years, we decided a few months ago that it was time for Black Issues to examine this hot-button issue. It is a debate that is not just confined to the Black community. The reparations discussion […]

November 7, 2001

Censorship Is Key Concern For Student Media

Censorship Is Key Concern For Student MediaARLINGTON, Va.T he Arlington, Va.-based Student Press Law Center reports that requests for help from public high school journalists needing free help on a censorship matter rose more than 41 percent last year. According to the center, 518 public high school student journalists or their advisers contacted them in […]

September 26, 2001

Getting African American Journalists on the ‘Write’ Track

Getting African American Journalists on the ‘Write’ TrackWilliam W. Sutton Jr., 45, is outgoing president of the National Association of Black Journalists and a deputy managing editor at The News & Observer in Raleigh-Durham, N.C. He is a 1977 graduate of Hampton Institute (now University); he briefly attended law school at Rutgers University-Camden and received […]

August 15, 2001

Flap Over Reparations Ad Reaches Duke Student Newspaper

Flap Over Reparations Ad Reaches Duke Student Newspaper DURHAM, N.C. Duke University students have joined the bitter protests being played out at campuses across the country over a full-page advertisement criticizing calls for slavery reparations. The ad, placed in The Chronicle for $1,071 by conservative writer David Horowitz, opposes providing monetary reimbursement to the descendants […]

April 11, 2001

University of Wisconsin Students Protest Reparations Advertisement

University of Wisconsin Students Protest Reparations AdvertisementMADISON, Wis. University of Wisconsin students marched to the offices of one of the campus newspapers earlier this month to protest an advertisement that criticizes calls for slavery reparations. The ad, which said reparations for Blacks is a bad idea, appeared in The Badger Herald. Conservative author David Horowitz […]

March 28, 2001

Six Universities Selected for National High School Journalism Project

Six Universities Selected for National High School Journalism ProjectCollege Park, Md.Six journalism schools have been selected to create and host an intensive two-week high school program designed to increase diversity within the nation’s newsrooms. Diversifying the nation’s newsrooms has been a long-time goal of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Studies show that the number […]

January 3, 2001

University of Georgia Marks 40th Anniversary Of Desegregation

University of Georgia Marks 40th Anniversary Of DesegregationAthens, Ga.‘Two-four-six-eight! We don’t want to integrate!” were the chants from the crowd that greeted Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes — the first two African American students to integrate the University of Georgia 40 years ago Jan. 9. To mark the 40 years since UGA was desegregated, the […]

January 3, 2001

Freedom Forum, Vanderbilt University to Construct New Journalism Diversity Institute

Freedom Forum, Vanderbilt University to Construct New Journalism Diversity InstituteNashville, Tenn.The Freedom Forum last month announced plans for construction of The Freedom Forum Institute for Newsroom Diversity at Vanderbilt University. The new $6 million facility will house the innovative training center for journalists of color. The institute’s mission will be to help increase the number […]

December 6, 2000

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