Tag: Amsterdam News
-
“CUNY to hold conference on African Diaspora”
Amsterdam News still consistently covers offerings for the Black community at CUNY. The article specifically mentions that the Graduate Center’s IRADAC is focusing on public programs, linking this article to several others from this time about the Graduate Center’s public intellectual offerings. Read more.
-
“Van Sertima: Africans first to New World”
Continued engagement with CUNY, and specifically Medgar Evers, from the Amsterdam News. They report on an event that examines controversial research from a humanities professor who published research in the 70s that African settlers had integrated with indigenous Americans long before the arrival of Columbus. Even over a decade after the last former part of…
-
“Writers Conference at Evers”
Reporting about Medgar Evers from the Amsterdam News suggests a renaissance in the mid 1980s, or perhaps indicates that the campus was perceived to be coming into its own for the first time. This article details the Humanities Division hosting its “First National Black Writers Conference” with a grant from the NEH. These articles from…
-
“Medgar Evers College regains four year status”
This article revisits the charge of the college, which is to provide professionalization while not neglecting liberal arts education for those in the Brooklyn community where the campus resides. The campus had previously lost four-year status during the fiscal crisis, only 7 years after opening. Read more.
-
“Black Studies at CUNY Tech looks to the future”
As in other Amsterdam News articles on CUNY and the arts and humanities, an emphasis is made on the connection between the newly robust programming and the local community that it is meant to serve. This is one of the earliest articles from the decade in this narrative thread. Read more.
-
“Hostos: At the Dawn of a New Decade”
This is one of the earliest articles from the decade that celebrates the efforts of a campus to integrate and serve a local community. The Amsterdam News frequently reports on these matters during the 80s, specifically drawing attention to campus efforts to foster connections between the arts and the surrounding communities. Read more.
