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Prior to her work at the Office of Institutional Diversity, Coleman was the director of the Tufts Africana Center—established to raise awareness of on-campus diversity issues and to provide Tufts students of African descent with resources to prepare them for leadership in professional settings...
...most cherished accomplishment is helping to edit the Encyclopaedia Africana. Every people in the world had an encyclopedia but black people. There's an Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopaedia Britannica and finally, at the turn of the 21st century, we have one as well...
...crackdown on sagging not only has strained relations between young black men and law enforcement but it could also have a significant economic impact on inner-city residents struggling financially, says Tricia Rose, a professor at Brown University's Department of Africana Studies and the author of the forthcoming book The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters. The average median household income in Riviera Beach is about $10,000 lower than that in the rest of the country, and the city's per capita violent-crime rate is higher...
...Athletes have a responsibility, as human beings and citizens, to step up to the plate and participate in the world," says Tukufu Zuberi, director of the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, who has studied China's connections with the Sudan. "They can't hide because they're exceptional individuals. Because they're exceptional individuals, more is demanded of them." On the field, athletes know all about the importance of a stance. Ignoring it off the field hurts...
...black politics and culture will note that the two will spill into each other,” he said. “Culture will influence the way blacks do politics.” However, not everyone in attendance shared Terry’s views. Tricia Rose, a professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, said that hip hop has lost its political potential due to its commercialization. “The ghetto has become a product; something to be consumed, something to be worn,” she said, adding that hip hop has become an enterprise that exploits...