BSU
News
12/1/05 Announcement of the new
“Talented Tenth” initiative
The Black Student Union (BSU) of
Eureka College (IL) will be holding a press conference on Thursday, December 1,
2005, at 3:00 p.m. The press conference will be held in Moser Lobby of the
The purpose of the press conference is to announce publicly a new “talented tenth” initiative for the twenty-first century. For the past few months, a BSU committee has been at work revising the "Niagara Declaration of Principles" that W.E.B. DuBois issued in 1905 to make it a more contemporary statement of beliefs and goals. A copy of Dr. DuBois’s original “Declaration of Principles” can be found online at:
http://www.yale.edu/glc/archive/1152.htm
Later this week, copies of the revised "Declaration of Principles" will be sent to BSU chapters at colleges and universities across the United States in an effort to have a new generation of young leaders affirm and commit themselves to these goals. The ultimate goal is to revitalize DuBois's call for a "talented tenth" to emerge and lead the campaign for racial justice.
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