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Flashback Friday: Professor William S. Scarborough, Classics Scholar and First Black Member of the MLA

The Quotable Black Scholar: bell hooks on Class in the Academy

Thursday July 30th, 2009 in Academia, African Americans, Higher Education | Comments Off on The Quotable Black Scholar: bell hooks on Class in the Academy

Is Vindication for Lucia Whalen also Vindication for Obama?

Wordless Wednesday: Students at Harbison Agricultural College

Tuesday July 28th, 2009 in African American Students, African Americans, Black Colleges, Black History, Black Students, Higher Education, race | Comments Off on Wordless Wednesday: Students at Harbison Agricultural College

Vindication for Lucia Whalen, or Why the 911 Call Means Everything and Nothing at All

U Cincinnati Aims to Give First-Generation Students a Home Away from Home

Monday July 27th, 2009 in Current Events, Higher Education | Comments Off on U Cincinnati Aims to Give First-Generation Students a Home Away from Home

Disorderly Conduct at Harvard: Whalen and Crowley and Gates, Oh My!

U Penn Grad Prep Academy Aims at Black Males

Thursday July 23rd, 2009 in Academia, African American Students, African Americans, Black men, Black Students, Black women, Current Events, Higher Education, race | Comments Off on U Penn Grad Prep Academy Aims at Black Males

President Obama Weighs in on the Gates Arrest

Wednesday July 22nd, 2009 in African Americans, Barack Obama, Current Events, Henry Louis Gates, Higher Education, race | Comments Off on President Obama Weighs in on the Gates Arrest

(Almost)Wordless Wednesday: Black Pioneers on Harvard’s Faculty