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Even inner-city students who do make it to college often find themselves at a disadvantage. Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn is working to deal with this problem. It created a new freshman orientation for black male students, taught by the college president and his assistant. The goal of the...
The most important thing advisors and counselors can give students is the belief in themselves. Confidence is one of the most crucial skills to success at any school—college or otherwise. The initial rejection from high school can send an early message that they are somehow inadequate, and...
DIED. NINA SIMONE, 70, fiery, eclectic singer and classically trained pianist who was known, somewhat inaccurately, as the "high priestess of soul"; of undisclosed causes; in Carry-le-Rouet, France. Born Eunice Waymon (she changed her name so her mother wouldn't catch on to her pop career), the onetime...
Prejudice still exists through Mississippi, however, particularly in rural areas. But even there tolerance has taken root. During the Clinton years, it was rural juries of both races that convicted Byron De La Beckwith, the white assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. (Another multiracial jury recently convicted the white...
What the critics say: “West had better keep that day job. There are unintentionally hilarious moments even beyond the less-than-stellar backing music and West’s corny delivery, such as his indictment of slaves’ having been forced to work on â?...