Celebrate Black Achievement with the BAC!!!
Join the Black Alumni Council (BAC) and the Columbia Alumni Association (CAA) for the 2012 Black Alumni Heritage Award reception honoring this year’s recipients Joe …
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(PANTHER • POET •PROFESSOR• PRISONER • OSCAR NOMINEE) Professor Joseph will be making stops throughout the country for readings of his new book Panther Baby. In Panther Baby, which will be released in February, Professor Joseph details what it meant to be a soldier inside the militant Black Panther movement. He recounts a harrowing, sometimes deadly imprisonment as he charts his path to manhood—a path which eventually brought him back to Columbia University.
TOUR SCHEDULE
Los Angeles, CA
Eso Won Books – 7:30pm, Thursday, February 9
4331 Degnan Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008
www.esowonbookstore.com
Seattle, WA
Town Hall co-sponsored by University Bookstore – 7:30pm, Monday, February 13
1119 8th Avenue, Seattle, WA 98101
www.townhallseattle.org
Boise, ID
Rediscovered Bookshop – 7:30pm, Tuesday, February 14
7079 W Overland Road, Boise, ID 83709
www.rdbooks.org
Washington, DC
Politics & Prose – 7pm, Thursday, February 16
5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
www.politics-prose.com
New York, NY
Columbia University Miller Theater – 6:30pm, Friday, February 17
2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
www.millertheatre.com
Schomburg Center – 1pm, Saturday, March 3
515 Malcolm X Blvd, New York, NY 10037
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
Greenlight Bookstore – 7:30pm, Monday, February 27
686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217
http://greenlightbookstore.com/
Hue Man Bookstore – 6pm, Monday, March 5
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd, New York, NY 10027
http://www.huemanbookstore.com/
KGB Bar – 7pm, Tuesday, March 6
85 East 4th Street, New York, NY 10003
http://www.kgbbar.com/
Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Free Library – 7:30pm, Tuesday, February 21
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
www.freelibrary.org
Chicago, IL
Afri-Ware Books – 5pm, Wednesday, February 22
440 South Ridgeland Ave, Oak Park, IL 60302
http://www.afriware.net/
Chicago Public Library – 6pm, Thursday, February 23
Herald Washington Library Center
400 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60615
www.chipublib.org
Miami, FL
Books and Books – 8pm, Thursday, March 8
265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Cables, FL 33134
www.booksandbooks.com
Atlanta, GA
Eagle Eye Books – 1pm, Saturday, March 10
2076 N Decatur Road, Decatur, GA
www.eagleeyebooks.com
“Four years ago Columbia University headed the JBHE rankings for the first time. Now, for the fifth year in a row, Columbia has the highest percentage of Black freshman students …
The Obama administration on Friday urged colleges and universities to get creative in improving racial diversity at their campuses, throwing out a Bush-era interpretation of recent Supreme Court rulings that limited affirmative action in admissions.
The median household income of the highest fifth of the population is $207,053—34 times $6,073, the median income for the lowest fifth, according to a report by the Census Bureau released in November. The median household income of the highest fifth of the population is $207,053—34 times $6,073, the median income for the lowest fifth, according to a report by the Census Bureau released in November.
Kellis E. Parker, a noted legal scholar and civil rights activist who embraced jazz as a framework for understanding the law and, in 1972,became the first full-time black law professor at Columbia University, died on October 10 at St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. The cause of death was acute respiratory distress syndrome, which struck him suddenly at the end of September, said Kimberly Parker, his daughter. He was 58.
We, the Black Alumni Council, thank Dean Moody-Adams for her dedicated service to the Collegeas Dean and Vice President for Undergraduate Education.
Columbia’s black community is particularly gratified that Dean Moody-Adams filled her historicrole as the first minority and first female Dean of the College with such aplomb, grace, anddedication. Dean Moody-Adams set a very high standard for professionalism, scholarship, andcomposure under challenging circumstances
A rendering of the future Jerome L. Greene Science Center as seen from West 129th Street and Broadway. On the right is a depiction of the science center as seen from a plaza on the Manhattanville campus.Now rising on the onetime site of parking lots and warehouses in Manhattanville is the University’s effort to recreate that kind of collaborative space in the Jerome L. Greene Science Building—not just for a single department, but for a wide range of disciplines related to neuroscience.
John B. King Jr., who credits teachers for helping him surmount an isolated childhood as an orphan in Brooklyn and who ran celebrated charter schools in New York and Massachusetts, was named Monday as the state’s next education commissioner, with a unanimous vote of the Board of Regents.
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NEW YORK – Manning Marable, an influential historian of the black experience in the United States and the author of a forthcoming biography of Malcolm X, died Friday in New York. He was 60.
His wife, Leith Mullings, said Marable died from complications of pneumonia at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. She said he had suffered for 24 years from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, and had undergone a double lung transplant in July.
Garland (“Gar”) E. Wood, an innovator in the municipal bonds market, passed away at his home in Weston, Connecticut on Monday, November 15, after a long illness. He was 66. Mr. Wood rose through the ranks at Goldman Sachs over a two-decade career, becoming the first black partner at the firm and one of the first in the financial services industry.
