February 24th, 2014
Written by The Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 60 Comments
Georgia officials have once again approved a specialty license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag, infuriating civil rights advocates and renewing a debate among those who believe the symbol honors Confederate heritage and those who see it as racially charged.
The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans requested the new plate design, and the Georgia Department of Revenue...
February 17th, 2014
Written by Chacour Koop in National Collegiate Dialogue with 69 Comments
A report released last Tuesday shows Illinois is at the national average for high school graduates scoring high enough for college credit on exams, but low-income and black students still lag in performance and participation in the college prep courses.
According to an Advanced Placement Program report, 21 percent of the state's high school graduates in Illinois received a three or higher on at...
February 17th, 2014
Written by Jonathan Smith in National Collegiate Dialogue with 30 Comments
Meet Bill Huff. His age is unknown but the raspy tone in his voice hints at a person who has seen a lot during his lifetime. It was a random day in 1982 and the African-American man spent almost two hours discussing a time in Carlsbad that now seems like a distant memory.
He talked about several things, but mostly he talked about some of Carlsbad's darker times during segregation. However, he...
February 10th, 2014
Written by Gary D. Robertson - Associated Press in National Collegiate Dialogue with 18 Comments
Following a year marked by hundreds of arrests and national publicity but few policy victories, leaders of the movement opposing the Republican agenda in North Carolina vowed Saturday to keep fighting and to speak clearly at the ballot box in 2014.
Thousands of people angry with GOP policies approved in 2013 were energized while attending the "Moral March on Raleigh," the largest gathering of its...
February 10th, 2014
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in National Collegiate Dialogue with 57 Comments
The negative impact and consequences that systemic racism wields on the human condition can be seen in obvious ways. One only has to look around them and see the gross disparities when it comes to educational achievement, employment, quality of housing, and other living conditions between white Americans and other minorities, especially blacks.
Less obvious are the other insidious and often...