Black Males Missing From College Campuses

Written by Marjorie Valbrun | 05 November 2010

(America’s Wire) - Walk the campuses of many black colleges, and you are bound to notice young female students strolling and talking, clusters of women having lunch together, classrooms filled mostly with women.

Improving Community College Student Success

Written by Organization's Staff | 11 October 2010

As public concern heightens over current completion rates for students at America’s community colleges, a University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has systematically examined 25 years of rigorous research in search of explanations of success and remedies for dropouts.

Restorative Justice Invites a Fundamental Shift in the Way We Think About Justice

Written by Organization's Staff | 01 October 2010

In the last few decades, different programs have arisen out of a profound, virtually universal frustration with the dysfunction of our justice system. What distinguishes restorative justice from all these programs is that it is not a program.

A History of American Medical Apartheid Comes to NCCU

Written by North Carolina Central University | 28 September 2010

DURHAM – The Department of Public Health Education at North Carolina Central University will host a lecture and book-signing with award-winning author Harriet A. Washington, on Oct. 6 at 5 p.m., in the H.M. Michaux, Jr. School of Education Auditorium. Washington is the author of Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, which examines the long history of medical experiments involving American blacks. The book has earned several awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the PEN/Oakland Award, the American Library Association Black Caucus BCALA Nonfiction Award and the Gustavus Meyers Award.