Tag: Campus Cultural Groups

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Researching African-American History in Indiana

Ask Dr. Tim Lake about early Black settlements in Indiana. He’ll share how he and Wabash College students have discovered that, 150 years ago, Black-White relations were not nearly as polarized as one might assume.

August 3, 2010

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Keeping the Core Mission

Thank you for the information on Black cultural centers (see “The Evolution of Black Culture Centers…

February 21, 2007

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Telling the Story of a People

Those who study and run the nation’s Black-oriented museums and cultural centers say we need as many as we can get in order to tell the story of Black America…

February 8, 2006

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Letter1

Dear Editor:In your Feb. 14 issue, Dr. Julianne Malveaux was clicking on all cylinders when she incisively noted that “the media want a controversy” at Harvard between President Lawrence Summers and the university’s African American studies department. According to media theorists Max McCombs and Donald Shaw, “the media not only tell us what to think […]

April 10, 2002

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Letter2

Dear Editor,Kudos for Black Issues’ recent coverage of the values of and seminal issues confronting Black culture centers, as well as your historical summary of the Association for Black Culture Centers (ABCC) (see Black Issues, Feb. 14). As ABCC founder and current executive director, I nonetheless need to raise the issue of how my position […]

March 13, 2002

African-American

The Staying Power Of Black Cultural Centers

The Staying Power Of Black Cultural CentersThe first Black cultural centers appeared on predominantly White college campuses toward the end of the 1960s. The activities of civil rights organizations and other progressives ushered in an awakening on campuses to the idea of being culturally pluralistic, and the Black cultural center became the symbol of this […]

February 13, 2002

Leadership & Policy

ABCC: An Idea Born Out of Frustration

ABCC: An Idea Born Out of FrustrationDr. Fred Hord, founder of the Association of Black Culture Centers (ABCC), like many of his mentors, has spent almost his entire life advocating racial justice in the streets and Black intellectual prowess in the classroom.So no one was particularly surprised when in 1987, Hord, then the director of […]

February 13, 2002

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Preserving Black History

Preserving Black HistoryAfter “loaning” out my column for the last two editions, I’m excited to share our Black history month editions with you. In this edition of Black Issues, we have focused on Black cultural centers and their importance, relevance and future on college campuses. I can remember at my alma mater the Black cultural center […]

February 13, 2002

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University of Tennessee Breaks Ground for Black Cultural Center

University of Tennessee Breaks Ground for Black Cultural CenterKNOXVILLE, Tenn.The University of Tennessee broke ground last month for a Black Cultural Center designed to create a more diverse atmosphere on campus. The $2 million center is expected to be completed in the spring of 2002. It replaces the former Black Cultural Center that was established […]

April 25, 2001

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Race Relations Center Prompts Location Debate

Race Relations Center Prompts Location DebateGREENSBORO, N.C. — A proposed university race relations center designed to promote understanding and equality has prompted debate over whether a University of North Carolina system campus should house such a program. Legislators last year proposed giving $500,000 toward building the Martin Luther King Race Relations Center at North Carolina […]

July 19, 2000