Rewriting History

Alumna Darlene Clark Hine is a pioneering scholar in the field of African-American women’s history and a recipient of the prestigious National Humanities Medal.

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The Equality Experiment

For many people the notion that a college or university could restrict admission because of one’s race, religion or gender is unthinkable. But that was the case just 70 years ago when Roosevelt University was founded. At that time, the majority of people attending colleges in the United States were white Christian men.

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Seth Boustead Wants Us All to Hear the New Classics

Whether he’s talking about composers on his internationally syndicated radio show or meeting with them in China, Chicago and points in between, Seth Boustead’s message is this: Classical music is not dead.

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