Quick Takes: Protesting Miss. Governor's Plan to Merge Black Colleges - Inside Higher Ed
News | www.insidehighered.com | Nov 23, 2009
Hundreds of students, alumni and others rallied Friday in Jackson against Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican, to merge the state's three public historically black colleges, The Jackson Clarion Ledger reported. The governor says that the plan to merge Alcorn State University and
Professor finds that students’ fear of ‘acting white’ doesn’t lower grades (The Pitt News)
News | www.pittnews.com | Nov 23, 2009
Tara Nair Staff Writer A Pitt professor refuted the claim that the idea of...
Michael Palin's hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face
News | www.guardian.co.uk | Nov 22, 2009
Former Python star has shown us the world beyond our shores but after forging a bond with a 26-year-old Somali refugee he hopes to open our eyes to problems much closer to home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/22/michael-palin-asylum-seeker-crisis
AP IMPACT: Some lawmakers send few to academies
News | www.boston.com | Nov 20, 2009
As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from big-city districts with large numbers of blacks, Hispanics and Asians.
Virginia analyzing lack of minorities in gifted programs
News | www.washingtonpost.com | Nov 18, 2009
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Tuesday that the Virginia Education Department has launched a study of minority students' low participation in gifted education programs statewide.
Quotes: A Big, Black, Sullen-Faced, Illiterate Girl From The Ghetto
Blog | scholasticadministrator.typepad.com | Nov 16, 2009
"Precious" is a film for blacks and a challenge to drop our own emotional armor and embrace a real-life story we have been minimizing for a long time -- that of a big, black, sullen-faced, illiterate girl who lives in the depths of the ghetto and in all likelihood will stay there." (Salon)
106 & PARK Tackles Teen Violence With a Special '106 & PARK' Live Monday, November 16, 2009 at 6
Press Release | www.zibb.com | Nov 13, 2009
This past October the White House dispatched two Cabinet officials in response to the beating of 16-year-old Derrion Albert in a street brawl that resulted in death in Chicago. Last year a 13-year-old boy was fatally shot in the chest in Harlem, New York. Two additional young men were wounded in
Teachers face ' institutional racism claims'
News | www.independent.co.uk | Nov 6, 2009
Black and minority ethnic teachers face an "endemic culture of institutional racism" in schools, research found today.
Mind slams mental health provision for asylum seekers
News | www.communitycare.co.uk | Nov 5, 2009
Mindasylum The UK asylum system is triggering and exacerbating mental health problems in people seeking...
Mapping the (Event) Horizon
Blog | www.intute.ac.uk | Nov 3, 2009
Black holes are one of the most fascinating and puzzling phenomena in astronomy – destructive in the extreme, yet believed to contain secrets about life, the Universe and, well perhaps not everything, but certainly a key to understanding more about our origins.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2009/11/03/mapping-the-event-horizon/
