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The Perils of being young, African American and Male

by Dr. James Ewers, March 19, 2009

There is an unhealthy generational gap within the African American male community. It is acute and now more serious than ever. There are some stark differences to what was and what is. Black men my age grew up respecting social customs. For example, we loved our parents and honored our

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Virginia State Election Board’s Use of Jim Crow-like Student Residency Questionnaire Raises Voting Rights Questions

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, September 17, 2008

 The New York Timesreports that E. Randall Wertz, the county registrar of voters in Montgomery County, Va., recently issued two outrageous and confusing (at best) press releases with regard to college student voter registration.             The first of the official missives made several patently false claims:  1) the parents of

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Apologies Abound and CNN’s Black in America: The Inescapable Nexus

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, August 14, 2008

On July 28, in the year 2008, the United States House of Representatives, almost 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, passed H. Res. 194, offering a formal apology for the centuries-long, government-sanctioned enslavement of African Americans and for the generations of Jim Crow segregation and for the institutionalized discrimination that

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Voting is our privilege and our responsibility

by Dr. James Ewers, May 19, 2008

Thank goodness we live in a country where we can freely vote.  It is something that we should not take for granted as we only have to look at other countries to see the chaos that has occurred because of voting or the lack of it.  Whether you are a

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Love and responsibility are keys to the Covenant

by Dr. James Ewers, May 14, 2008

 Tavis Smiley's “The Covenant With Black America” has been out a couple of years and it, along with the the companion book entitled "The Covenant in Action," is a must read if you are interested in grass roots change.  As many of you will recall, Tavis Smiley had a talk show with

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Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Diverse Sponsors ‘Mentoring’ Panel Discussion

Journalist Janet Roach reports on the Diverse-sponsored panel discussion, “The Critical Role of Mentoring in Increasing Graduates and Faculty of Color”. The panel discussion was held in Washington, D.C. during the 98th annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities.


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