Issue: 214

State-supported universities in metropolitan areas that charge comparatively modest tuition “are playing an invaluable if unsung role in preparing minorities to enter the legal profession,” a noted legal educator said today. “We need more efforts like theirs because law school tuition at private universities is skyrocketing.” But Dean Lawrence Velvel of the Massachusetts School of…

I suppose a good place to begin would be with reality. It is unrealistic to think this word will just disappear from the face of the earth. It is as much a part of American history as the Boston Tea Party, the Civil War, slavery, etc. and we may as well learn to accept that.…

There’s an upsurge of high-level Asian activities in Africa that Africans in America should note. Most recently, President Hu Jintao of China visited Nigeri, in late April, to sign a $4 billion deal to develop oilfields and infrastructure. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi brought an astonishing 121-member delegation of political and business leaders to Ghana…

The sudden defeat of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) by the Ethiopian army and their U.S. backers proved easier then expected. A reported 15,000 Ethiopian troops and U.S. aerial bombardment succeeded in installing the Transitional Federal Government, two years after its formation in neighboring Kenya. Despite the ICU’s military defeat, the war is far from…