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The Good News About HBCUs
John Silvanus Wilson Jr., executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, knows the value of HBCUs — even if it seems these days that too many others don’t. Amid growing doubts about their relevancy and benefits, and fears that black colleges could be facing extinction, Wilson has the task…
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A 100-Year-Old Civil Rights Vet Speaks
On March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson was beaten and left for dead in Selma, Ala., on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the historic march for voting rights. A longtime educator and activist in Alabama’s Black Belt, Boynton Robinson has seen many of her activist friends and peers pass on, like Rosa Parks and Dorothy…
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Jet Magazine to Add Opinion Pieces
Johnson Publishing Co. plans to address Jet magazine’s competitive disadvantage with Internet publications by adding opinions and perspective pieces to the print magazine, Johnson CEO Desiree Rogers told Journal-isms on Wednesday. “You can curate and have opinions on what happened over the week,” she said. Jet can also offer “more of what you’ve loved all…
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Rick Perry: The View From Texas
While the major metropolitan areas in the state have tilted toward Democrats, Texas is still a solidly red state. Our governor-turned-presidential candidate Rick Perry hasn’t had to court the African-American vote, since he’s won three elections and become Texas’ longest-serving governor without it. Perry hasn’t ignored black Texans. He’s routinely taken part in the United…
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Remembering Dr. Frank Hale, 84
Dr. Frank Hale, a pioneer in making graduate education accessible to African Americans, was remembered in a seven-hour funeral service last week in Columbus, Ohio. Some 36 speakers — including the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Samuel DuBois Cook, president emeritus of Dillard University — lauded Hale, the charming visionary whose 60-year career left a bold,…
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Media Coverage of UK Riots Questioned
Hundreds Complain About Racial Remarks on BBC “The BBC has received nearly 700 complaints about the historian and broadcaster David Starkey’s claim that ‘whites have become black’ during a discussion about last week’s riots on Newsnight,” Lisa O’Carroll reported Monday for Britain’s Guardian newspaper. “Of those contacting the BBC, 696 were protesting about Starkey’s comments,…
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Study: Are the Rich Mean and Selfish?
Psychologist and social scientist Dacher Keltner says that the life experiences of rich people make them less empathetic, less altruistic and generally more selfish. “We have now done 12 separate studies measuring empathy in every way imaginable, social behavior in every way and some work on compassion, and it’s the same story,” he said. “Lower-class…
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4,000 Show Up for Black Caucus Jobs Event
NEWS Jobs are Offered, and Thousands Turn Up The 4,000 job seekers who showed up at a Cleveland State University job fair didn’t need to watch the bloodletting on Wall Street Monday to know what they wanted: jobs. Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) hosted the fair, and afterward, she and other members of the Congressional Black…
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Will.i.am Says 'Science Is Rock and Roll'
Will.i.am says “science is rock and roll”: The Black Eyed Peas star has recruited Snoop Dogg and Justin Bieber for an upcoming TV special (“i.am First: Science Is Rock and Roll”) encouraging students to embrace science and technology. He has also created the i.am.scholarship, which includes high school academic mentoring, and the i.am.scholarship College Track…
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Thoughts on Dating With a Doctorate
A blog post that appeared on the Crunk Feminist Collective about dating with a doctorate is making its way around the blogosphere. Entitled, “She Got a Big Ego? Thoughts on Dating With a Doctorate,” the post addresses the challenges of being a highly educated black woman and trying to find black men to date who…