African Americans
TSU symposium explores the art of the African diaspora
April 23, 2010Texas Southern University celebrates its museum's 10th anniversary with a symposium on the art of the African diaspora.
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Dorothy Height, godmother of civil rights movement
April 23, 2010Dorothy Height is remembered as a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose life's work and activism stretched from the New Deal through the 2008 election of President Obama.
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SNCC 50th anniversary meet mixes nostalgia and determination
April 22, 2010RALEIGH, N.C. - With a mix of nostalgia and renewed commitment, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) held its 50th anniversary conference here, April 15-18.
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Some sobering notes on African American equality
April 21, 2010The fact that institutionalized racism persist in our country is rooted in the historical reality of 250 years of slavery followed, after a brief period of civil war and democratic reconstruction, by over seventy years of...
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“Gone with the Wind” days in Virginia
April 8, 2010In the 2006 Senate election in Virginia, incumbent Republican George Allen was defeated by Democrat Jim Webb after undergoing what is called here his "macaca moment."
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