The Black Collegian articles from April 1996

The Black Collegian archives from April 1996

Eddie Robinson: a living legend. (Grambling State University football coach)
April 1, 1996... Winner of More Football Games Than Any Other Coach - and Still Going History has proven that legends are the product of intense and unswerving devotion to the task at hand. There is little doubt among the informed that, by that definition,...

Run the race ... it's yours to run. (perseverance as key to success)
April 1, 1996... When the first issue of THE BLACK COLLEGIAN was published, I was entering elementary school. As THE BLACK COLLEGIAN celebrates its 25th Anniversary, I celebrate the completion of my doctoral work in mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute...

Taking a stand. (Historically Black Colleges and Universities' programs to curb Black male violence)
April 1, 1996... Using grassroots methods, concerned African-American students, faculty, and administrators are taking a stand HBCUs in the Crusade Against Violence in Our Communities Violent crime is one of the most pressing problems in American society,...

The challenges we face.
April 1, 1996... What are the greatest challenges facing African-Americans today, and what will be "the problem of the Twenty-first Century" - for African-Americans and for the nation? More important, how can we find the solution? In this feature, Nikki...

Race in America: multiculturalism, afrocentrism, and the new democratic framework.
April 1, 1996... When W.E.B. Du Bois announced in his marvelous work Souls of Black Folk, that the "problem of the 20th Century is the color line . . ." immediately he set out a social and analytical paradigm that instantly recognized that the major racial...

Passing the torch?: the new generation of student activists.
April 1, 1996... At one of the too-frequent anniversaries of the 1963 March on Washington - perhaps the 30th anniversary in 1993 - a ceremony was held which featured the symbolic "passing of the torch" from the grizzled and gray-haired generation that had beaten...

The struggle for equal employment opportunity in corporate America.
April 1, 1996... Before the days of Affirmative Action, African Americans were a rare sight among corporate workers. Once Upon a Time When We Were "Negroes" It was different back in the 1940s and early '50s when some of the grandparents of the present...

Black pioneers in mainstream corporate America. (Percy Lavon Julian; Joe Black; Jean Roland Esquerre; Harvey Russell; James O. Plinton)
April 1, 1996... The Labor Department's Glass Ceiling Study, released early in 1995, paints a picture of late 20th century Corporate America as still virtually all-White and overwhelmingly male. In fact, the study concluded that fully 97 percent of all top...

A look at corporate America today.
April 1, 1996... The absence of minorities and women in the higher levels of corporate management is well known. Despite the showcasing of successful Black managers and entrepreneurs in such magazines as Black Enterprise and THE BLACK COLLEGIAN, Blacks occupy...

Profile of African-Americans 1970-1995.
April 1, 1996... African-Americans have been undergoing a remarkable transition over the last 25 years. Many Blacks have been able to take advantage of new opportunities that opened up since Civil Rights legislation and Great Society programs were first...

The Black Collegian at twenty five.
April 1, 1996... The St. Charles street-car, the oldest continuous running street-car in the United States, ends or begins - depending upon whether you get on or off - its scenic run at its Carondelet and Canal street stop in the heart of the central business...

Reevaluating a hierarchy of values. (The Black Collegian's 25th Anniversary Essay Contest on the American Dream: The Winning Essay)
April 1, 1996... The fundamental addiction is an addiction to status, an addiction to visibility precisely because Black people have been invisible. We have been nameless and are now in a quest of name recognition. Jesse Jackson's statement speaks for most of...

A quarter century of career and job search advice.
April 1, 1996... Here's a sampling of some of the career-related article titles and comments that have appeared on our pages over the past 25 years. ALEXIS M. HERMAN Director, White House Office of Public Liaison (April/May 1980) "Black women can look to the...

The job market for the next 25 years: what do recruiters expect?
April 1, 1996... Technology, communications, and flexibility seem to be three predominant themes among recruiters these days when invited to reflect on future job markets. During the past 25 years, the job market has changed immensely. Primarily, the methods used...