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December 4th, 2012
Written by Toby Sterling - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Foreigners visiting the Netherlands in winter are often surprised to see that the Dutch version of St. Nicholas' helpers have their faces painted black, wear Afro wigs and have thick red lips — in short, a racist caricature of a black person.
The overwhelming majority of Dutch are fiercely devoted to the holiday tradition of "Zwarte Piet" — whose name means "Black Pete" — and...
December 4th, 2012
Written by Kyle Hightower - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A study of the 70 schools selected for college football bowl games this season showed football teams maintained high recent academic progress, but the gap between African-American and white players persists.
The annual report released Monday by the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport showed overall Graduation Success Rate improvement from 68 to 69 percent for football...
December 3rd, 2012
Written by Russell Contreras - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - From living in a top-secret city on a mesa in northern New Mexico to smuggling a suitcase packed with alcohol into a dry federal research lab in Tennessee, some of the lesser-known stories behind the nation's effort to develop the atomic bomb are now available online.
The Atomic Heritage Foundation and the Los Alamos Historical Society say the "Voices of the Manhattan...
December 3rd, 2012
Written by LaToya Council - Power And Privilege in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 3 Comments
As a young Black woman, I have been afforded many opportunities in life that were not necessarily given to previous generations of women in my family. Some of these opportunities include: receiving a Bachelors degree from a prestigious college, studying abroad in different countries, learning and mastering a second language, and having the opportunity to attend graduate school. Each of these...
December 3rd, 2012
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 1 Comment
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, Paul Kivel, social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an...
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