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Federal guidance on race is college admissions is changing

Considering race in college admissions – 3 questions answered

By Commentaries/Opinions

By Stella M Flores, The Conversation — On July 3, the Trump administration announced it will reverse several policy memos outlining how colleges and universities can use race as a factor in admissions. The memos aren’t law, but rather Obama-era guidance – issued jointly by the departments of Education and Justice – stating that the federal government recognizes “the compelling interest that postsecondary institutions have in obtaining the benefits that flow from achieving a…

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Young woman at a student protest in London against fees and cuts in 2010

The Black Studies Movement in Britain

By News & Current Affairs

By Kehinde Andrews, Black Perspectives — In 1967, the Afro-Caribbean Self-Help Organisation (ACSHO), based in Birmingham, started one of the first Black supplementary schools in the UK, sparking off a movement that transformed how mainstream schools treated their Black children. Supplementary schools refer to voluntary education programs run by concerned parents, teachers, and community members because of the racism faced in the school system.

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E.L.A.M., a medical school on the outskirts of Havana, offers international students who pledge to practice in underserved areas a chance to pursue medicine without incurring catastrophic debt.Photograph by Adalberto Roque / AFP / Getty

Why African-American Doctors Are Choosing to Study Medicine in Cuba

By Editors' Choice

A school in Havana is offering students who pledge to practice in underserved areas a chance to pursue medicine without incurring catastrophic debt. NOTE: If it wasn’t for the close relationship that the Late Rev Lucius Walker had with Fidel Castro, it would have been very difficult for this program to come into existence. — SEA By Anakwa Dwamena, The New York Times — In the countryside of western Havana,…

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FraserNet Announces its 2018 PowerNetworking Conference Key Speakers and Programs

FraserNet Announces its 2018 PowerNetworking Conference Key Speakers and Programs

By News & Current Affairs

Cleveland, Ohio – FraserNet, Inc., has announced that its 2018 PowerNetworking Conference (PNC) will be held July 4-8, at the Gaylord Hotel and Conference Center, on the National Harbor in Prince George’s County, Maryland. This year’s conference top global experts will focus their training on financial literacy, business development and wealth building through personal “subject matter” excellence, effective networking and collaboration.

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April 30th Special Edition of Vantage Point — Countdown to the “Professor’s Retirement at York College/CUNY

By Vantage Point Radio, Video/Audio

Topic: Countdown to the “The Professor’s” Retirement — A Tribute to York College, City University of New York. Guests: Dr. Marcia Keizs (President, York College), Dr. Vincent Banrey (Vice-President of Student Development, York College), Vica Mars, Executive Assistant to the Vice-President of Student Development, York College), Dr. Selena Rodgers (Associate Professor of Social Work, York College), Dr. George White (Chairman, Depart. of History, Philosophy and Anthropology, York College) and Dr. Anthony Andrews (Higher Education Associate, Student Activities, York College)

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Stokely Carmichael of SNCC at Florida A&M University, 1967

The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies

By Commentaries/Opinions

By Charisse Burden-Stelly — The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented the intellectual expression of political Pan-Africanism in United States colleges and universities. According to St. Clair Drake, “Pan-Africanism ha provided a distinct global focus for Black Studies since the programs became a part of the campus scene in the late sixties and early seventies…

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