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African American Studies News
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Metro Atlanta's Population is Young Compared To Other Cities
The Atlanta Regional Commission's Newsletter for October 2008 has the latest statistics on the population of metropolitan Atlanta.
Seeing Race and Seeming Racist
A report on the experiments conducted by researchers at Tufts University and Harvard University Business School on why whites (even children as young as 10) avoid talking about race.
Black Advances Erode As Labor Market Weakens
An Economic Policy Institute report from DOCUTICKER about the effect of the current downturn in the economy on the black community.
The American Medical Association Apologizes for a History of Racial Discrimination
On July 10th the American Medical Association apologized for it's history of racial inequality toward African American physicians.
Civil Rights Era Photographs On Display At The High Museum
The Road To Freedom is the name of the photographic exhibit now on display at the High Museum of Art in Midtown Atlanta. GSU's own Dr. Doris Derby is one of the featured photographers. The highly acclaimed exhibit runs June 7th through October 5th.
The Atlanta Regional Commission Report's that the Atlanta Region's Diversity is Booming
The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) Now Available on GALILEO
"The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) initiative is the most ambitious and comprehensive effort to date to deliver educational content on the Civil Rights Movement via the Web." "The CRDL promotes an enhanced understanding of the Movement through its three principal components: 1) a digital video archive; 2) a civil rights portal and 3) instructional materials to facilitate the use of the video content." GALILEO Press Release.
The Decline of African American Representation in Unions
The Papers of (SCLC)the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Now Reside at Emory University
Emory University Library announced today that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a civil rights organization co-founded in 1957 by Martin Luther King, Jr.and other African American leaders has placed its papers in the care of Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library. Included in the archive are correspondence, press releases, speeches, membership records, clippings, photographs, audio cassette tapes and video tapes among other items.
Why Are African American and Hispanic Dropout Rates So High?
What Does A Recession Mean For Black America?
Pew Research Center Poll Released: Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class
The United States Minority Population Tops 100 Million
Were Quilts Used to Communicate on the Underground Railroad?
PERCY JULIAN - NOTED SCIENTIST
Click here to view the NOVA website to the life and work of Dr. Percy Julian, trailblazing scientist. Included are audio clips of interviews of persons who knew and worked with Dr. Julian as well as clips of Dr. Julian speaking on a variety of topics.
24th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation - January 18, 2007
The Washington Post Through A Survey Reveals A Contradictory Portrait of Black Men
REPORT: YOUNG BLACK MEN FALLING FURTHER OUT OF WORKFORCE
A MBNBC report states that scholars from Columbia,Georgetown and Princeton universities who have also recently written books, say that young Black men are falling further behind the rest of society.
