The Young Lords: A Reader provides a look inside the movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s whose politically radical members were part of the original Rainbow Coalition with the Black Panthers and the Young Patriots.
In Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen, Jennifer Jensen Wallach traces the life of the author best known for his novel Native Son and notes the effect of his work on later African American writers.
For the fifth time since 2005, NTTV, UNT’s student-run television station, has been recognized for excellence by Texas’ Lone Star Emmy chapter, part of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Three new administrative appointments keep a focus on the university’s goals of providing high-quality education while growing as a major research university.
A free series of documentary films focusing on women’s issues and presented by the UNT women’s studies program and the UNT Media Library, continues in the spring semester.
UNT’s Teach North Texas program will share a $1.5 million grant from the Texas Instruments Foundation to expand the program and add two new master teachers to its staff.
Sally Nystuen Vahle, assistant professor of dance and theatre, was named “Best Actress” by D Magazine in its “Best of Big D” issue for her role as Willie Loman’s wife, Linda, in Death of a Salesman at the Dallas Theater Center.