May 19, 2000

Africana Studies 4900, 'Cyberspace and the Black Experience,' at U. of Toledo

Scholars are already looking at questions of race and cyberspace. Now it's time to bring the topic into the classroom, says Abdul Alkalimat, director of Africana studies at the University of Toledo. He will be teaching a new course in the fall that examines the impact of the information age on the black experience.

The class will be open to 25 students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. "We're trying to rethink the course so we don't use an old