Black men are over-diagnosed with schizophrenia at least five times higher than any other group--a trend that dates back to the 1960s, according to new University of Michigan research.
“Disney took a calculated risk with ‘The Princess and the Frog’ that could help restore their leadership in the genre,” says Brent Smith, Ph.D., a professor of entertainment marketing at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. “With competition from DreamWorks and other animation houses, this move may have helped Disney regain some luster as a forward-thinking industry innovator.”
The civil rights leader is to present the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Address.
Dr. James SoRelle, Baylor University professor of history, is available for interviews about King. SoRelle authored an entry about King for the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World.
Nominations for the 2009 Izzy Award are officially open. The annual award for special achievement in independent media — named after legendary muckraker I. F. “Izzy” Stone — is a project of Ithaca College's Park Center for Independent Media. Last year’s inaugural award was shared by blogger Glenn Greenwald and “Democracy Now!” host/executive producer Amy Goodman.
For many Michigan Tech students, faculty, engineering and technology are a means to a noble end--a way to make the world a better place for its least advantaged.
The collective work of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing faculty is bringing hope, safety, and health to victims of physical, sexual, or emotional violence around the world.
Experts are available on topics such as race in America and Poverty and socioeconomic disparities.
The Acts of the Apostles: Four Centuries of Baptist Interpretation presents Baptists’ historical views on the biblical book of Acts.
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) communication studies Professor Larry Powell, Ph.D., has published a new book, Black Barons of Birmingham, that tells the story of the professional Negro League baseball team whose legendary members included Leroy “Satchel” Paige and Willie Mays.
The premise is simple: to receive a fair wage for hard work. The fair trade movement, which began shortly after the Cold War, has regained momentum recently. A 2008 Fair Trade Federation Interim Report stated there was a 102 percent growth in U.S. and Canadian sales for Fair Trade products between 2004 and 2006.
Dr. David T. Beito, professor of history at The University of Alabama, and his wife, Dr. Linda Royster Beito, have published "Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power," a civil rights leader.
"With President Obama now approaching six months in office, some have suggested that we have gone beyond race as a major dividing line in society. Yet nothing could be further from the truth," says Mark R. Rank, Ph.D., professor of social work at Washington University in St. Louis.
The conference, in recognition of the coincidence of the inauguration of the nation's first African-American president and the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the end of Massive Resistance in Virginia, will explore the events of the time and analyze how the commonwealth has evolved since the Massive Resistance era.
An initial examination of how teachers understand and teach about social justice confirmed that "it is critical that teachers understand social injustice before teaching about social justice," according to University of Arkansas educator Sung Choon Park.
"This is the most significant case the Supreme Court has heard involving voting rights in many, many years," says Professor Michael Jude Pitts. "Section 5's survival is at stake. Minority voters stand to lose some of the significant advances that have been made over the last several decades."
Dr. Anthony Stewart, an Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has penned a pointed critique of the university system and the challenges evident in integration at post secondary institutions.
The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) at Ithaca College has announced that its first annual Izzy Award for special achievement in independent media will be shared this year by two pillars of independent journalism: blogger Glenn Greenwald and "Democracy Now!" host/executive producer Amy Goodman.
Is the popular notion of Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator"”a civil rights champion 200 years ahead of his time"”historically accurate, or was the real man inextricably a product of the culture, politics and realities of his day? A new book by historian Paul Escott challenges romanticized views of Lincoln.
President Obama spurred a dramatic change in the way whites think about African-Americans before he had even set foot in the Oval Office, according to a new study.
Bertha Holliday, APA's senior director for ethnic minority affairs, leads the association's efforts to increase the scientific understanding of how culture affects relationships and how ethnicity influences behaviors. A main focus for her office is to promote research that identifies behaviors that contribute to diseases that disproportionately affect the health and life span of African-Americans, as well as other ethnic minorities. Holliday, who holds a doctorate in psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, sees psychologists as instrumental in changing these behaviors and developing policies to eliminate the disparities in health care for these populations.
John Dovidio, a professor at Yale University, has studied issues of social power and social relations, both between groups and between individuals. His work explores both conscious (explicit) and unconscious (implicit) influences on how people think about, feel about and behave toward others based on group membership. He has conducted research on "aversive racism," a contemporary subtle form of prejudice, and on techniques for reducing conscious and unconscious biases.
The creation of Civil Rights memorials "is a watershed event in the commemoration of Southern and American history, an important reversal in the traditional invisibility of African Americans," say the authors of "Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory."
One Black man's journey from poverty to Ph.D. through education, determination and robotics.
UALR students organize bus trip to Washington to celebrate Martin Luther King by attending the presidential inauguration of America's first black president.
1) A powerful group of 6 African American women who have so far raised nearly $11 million for brain tumor research led by Dr. Keith L. Black, Chairman of the Neurosurgery Department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; 2) This past May, three young neuroscientists received the “Pauletta and Denzel Washington Family Gifted Scholars in Neurosciences Awards.” 3) Dr. Keith Black is among a small and elite group of neurosurgeons in the world who perform hundreds of brain tumor operations each year.
The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College is accepting nominations from journalists, academics and the public at large for the first annual Izzy Award, named after legendary maverick journalist I. F. Stone. The award will recognize an independent outlet, journalist or producer for "special achievement" in work created/distributed outside of traditional corporate structures.
A political scientist calls for a national policy on culture as legal evidence.
University of Chicago is commemorating King day with a week of programing designed to celebrate the unique nexus of African American history and achievement that the university has nurtured from its founding to the inauguration of the first African American President and beyond.
The Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice will help to lead the newly formed "Alliance for the Advancement of Education in Juvenile Justice and Adult Corrections," a national coalition of correctional and educational professionals promoting proven education programs for incarcerated juvenile and adult offenders.
Refugees experience social injustice when they are forced to flee their homes, but Sarah Lischer, assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University, says many refugees experience further exploitation and violence in their new locations and again when they return home.
In his 20 years as a genocide scholar, Samuel Totten of the University of Arkansas has moved beyond cataloging and commemorating past genocides to working to intervene and prevent future genocides.
Online threats and attacks in the virtual realm often have real consequences in the flesh-and-blood world. Danielle Citron, JD, associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Law, says federal law must address this dangerous problem.
Torture and political imprisonment are on the rise in many other countries around the world and the United States is setting the example, says a new report by human rights experts at Binghamton University and the University of Memphis.
A nationwide human rights crisis lurks behind prison walls. Patients chained to beds shared Limestone Prison's Dorm 16 with insects and vermin. In the filthy, drafty rooms, contagious diseases spread like wildfire through the HIV+ population.
"Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation," by Urban Institute researchers Margery Austin Turner, Susan J. Popkin, and Lynette A. Rawlings, explores how public housing reform policies could overcome the persistent disadvantages facing black communities and black families and whether ignoring these disadvantages may undermine the long-term vision for public housing's transformation. The three Institute authors and a dozen contributors recount the history of racial segregation in public housing, highlight the consequences, and debate remedies.
A new look at the history of the Civil Rights - Black Power era: Women in the Black Revolt.
Working and learning in urban East Baltimore, the faculty and students of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing (JHUSON) have been battling to reduce and, ultimately, eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes through its programs of community-based research, clinical care, and health education.
The Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University in New Orleans works to keep alive stories of courage from the civil rights movement. The Institute, founded in 1993, is a nonprofit center dedicated to providing education and communications training for educators.
A lack of affordable housing for low income people in post-Katrina New Orleans has led to controversy over the decision to demolish several public housing complexes within the city. Stacy Seicshnaydre, William K. Christovich Associate Professor of Law at Tulane University School of Law and director of Tulane Law School's Civil Litigation Clinic, says New Orleans authorities have yet to produce a fair plan to address its dire housing needs.
The criminal justice system in New Orleans was in complete disarray following Hurricane Katrina, precipitating a constitutional crisis.
When marriage amendments are on the ballot, lesbian, gay and bisexual people experience acute psychological stress and downturns in general well-being; they also become more politically active.
The new, diverse generation of ministers are forging new relationships, developing a new style of ministry and setting agendas that are parallel to and distinct from that of the Civil Rights-era generation of clergy, according to Bill Leonard, dean of the School of Divinity at Wake Forest University.
In November, California citizens passed Proposition 8 upholding the idea that marriage is defined as and limited to the union of one man with one woman. The vote has given encouragement to many in other states who want to pass similar legislation. The United States is about to enter a period of legal upheaval on the question of marriage in the civil law, suggest Frank K. Flinn, Ph.D., adjunct professor of religious studies in Arts & Sciences. His proposal? Give marriage to the churches and let the state define civil unions.
Grinnell College experts available on civil libertis and social justice topics.
University of Washington scholars have shined new light on one of the darkest chapters of Washington history "“ the days when the Klu Klux Klan was a temporary force in the state. It was a brief era when the Klan had tens of thousands of members. KKK rallies drew crowds estimated at 50,000, the Klan entered floats in parades, there were Klan weddings and Christmases and the Klan even published its own newspaper.
Through her analysis of Villagran Morales v. Guatemala, the first case involving street children to come before an international adjudicatory body, a University of Arkansas law professor argues that international human rights litigation can be a powerful political tool to protect abused and victimized children worldwide. The landmark 1999 decision by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights may also mobilize communities to work for social and economic welfare of all children, especially those who are poor and living on the street.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech 45 years ago was "as near perfect a rhetorical event as you can have," Rowan University communication studies professor Dan Schowalter says.
Tulane University law professor Ray Diamond, an expert on Constitutional Law and especially the Second Amendment, is available for comment on District of Columbia v. Heller. The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision on June 26, 2008.
Marriage Equality in California "“ Sources for follow-up stories.
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