March 2012
March 26th, 2012
Written by Alonzo Weston in Latest News, "Sticky Wicket" Questions with 0 Comments
Dear Sticky Wicket,During March whether you are a college basketball fan or not, you can hardly escape all the publicity and activity around “March Madness.” Why is it perfectly acceptable to recruit athletically talented black basketball players to wow students, fans, and alumni, yet many of those same schools fail to recruit academically talented black students to fill their classrooms? ~...
March 26th, 2012
Written by Abby L. Ferber ... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 12 Comments
Each week, the White Privilege Conference and the Matrix Center for the Advancement of Social Equity and Inclusion, housed at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), hosts a half hour radio show called Intersections Radio that features an interview with a different author, scholar, and/or speaker.In this segment, Warren Blumenfeld, Associate Professor of Multicultural and...
March 26th, 2012
Written by Harris Chaiklin... in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
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“It is easy to overlook change when it happens ….” (Ifill 2009) p. 14. With this phrase, Gwen Ifill sets the theme for her analysis of what is happening with black political leadership. It is a tale of what she calls “sandpaper politics.” The phrase is meant to connote the friction which occurs in the shift of power from an older generation of black political leaders to an emerging one and the...
March 23rd, 2012
Written by Rita Cook in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
The Alaskan Inuit, also known as the “Eskimo” are one of the indigenous people from the Arctic regions of Alaska as well as Canada, Denmark, and Russia. The word Inuit actually means “the people” in the Inuktitut language.While the Inuit kept some of their culture intact above the Arctic Circle, the 21st century impact has affected this group, particularly those living on Alaska’s North Slope....
March 22nd, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility, Latest News with 0 Comments
Trayvon Martin was not a gang banger, drug dealer, or user. He was not even a juvenile delinquent. He was a 17-year-old, headed to his family’s home at dusk with Skittles and iced-tea in hand to watch a basketball game. But he never arrived. Yards away from his doorstep, he was shot in the chest by a white male neighborhood watchman carrying a high-powered handgun.Why? Was it because he was a...