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The Spelman College student chapter of American Women in Radio and Television will premiere the Gateway docudrama "Passing the Torch to America's Youth," a film that explores the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights march and "Bloody Sunday" on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, when more than 600 demonstrators were brutalized by state and local police. This event led to the 1965 Voting Rights...
During the 2007-2008 academic year, approximately 15 percent of Spelman's student population was treated for cold and flu symptoms. Spelman's Student Health Associates and Peer Educators are working to lower that number by educating the campus community on ways to stay healthy this cold and flu season. Opting to take an unconventional approach, the group will share effective germ-fighting...
Chris Roberson looks at Kim Newman's The Diogenes Club stories . Interviews and Profiles: Over at SFX, John Carpenter talks about The Thing ". Judith Spelman has posted a pdf copy of an Iain Banks interview she did for Writer's News Writing Magazine . [via Iain Banks website .] io9 profiles artist John Picacio . Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon ]: @SpaceWesterns: " Better than Gold "...
... repeated, "Did race trump gender?" Dr. Cynthia Neal-Spence, Associate Professor of Sociology at Spelman College, spoke about the dilemma of the black female. Asking, "Are we as a group more gender conscious or race conscious?" she then suggested "the media coverage had helped black women to choose sides." Despite Obama offering a post-racial approach, she sensed the same "tensions resurfacing...
The first day of the conference went very well, firstly a greeting from Caroline Spelman and advice not to take a general election victory for granted, as if! Here in Northfield we take nothing for granted, if the polls suggested a landslide we will still be on the doorsteps until 10pm on polling day. William Hague followed and hammered Brown mercilessly. Especially turning Brown's comments...
A New Convert’s Views on Early Childhood Education Source: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Earlier this year, I was approached by the Metropolitan Atlanta United Way to lead a new commission on early childhood education. My co-chair is Beverly Tatum, president of Spelman College. Although I have been an educator, I am not an expert on [...]
