Pearl StewartMSIsNew NAACP Youth Leader a Skilled OrganizerTiffany Dena Loftin arrived this month as the NAACP’s new director of the Youth & College Division at a critical – even urgent – time when many young African-Americans are clamoring for ways to get involved in social justice movements to resist violence and oppression.February 21, 2018HomeMellon Foundation Selects Renowned Poet and Scholar as PresidentThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which supports humanities, culture and the arts in higher education, has appointed nationally acclaimed poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander as its president.February 8, 2018African-AmericanVanderbilt Pays Tribute to Black SEC Pioneer PlayerBilled as “an evening of conversation about the intersection of race and sports,” Wednesday’s program at the National Museum of African American History and Culture was actually much more.January 11, 2018African-AmericanFAMU’s New President Accused of Defamation for “Hot Mic” RemarksWithin days of being appointed president of Florida A&M University, Dr. Larry Robinson has become embroiled in a dispute involving one of his vice presidents, several members of the board of trustees and shocking comments reportedly made into an open mic and broadcast live by the campus radio station.December 11, 2017HBCUsFAMU Picks Permanent PresidentIn a unanimous vote Thursday, the Florida A&M University Board of Trustees appointed Dr. Larry Robinson as the 12th president of the historically Black institution in Tallahassee.November 30, 2017African-AmericanPersistence Puts Turner on Path to Education, PoliticsHer mother’s sudden death, left Turner, who was then a 22-year-old sophomore at Cuyahoga Community College, and her police officer husband Jeffery, the task of caring for her six siblings and their own child.March 19, 2017StudentsMique’l Dangeli Puts Indigenous Art on Center StageDr. Mique’l Dangeli, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, is not only a dedicated scholar of Northwest Coast culture and art; she also is an avid practitioner.February 15, 2017African-AmericanProfessor Uses Interactive Technology to Tell Emmett Till StoryLawrence, Kansas is a long way from Sumner, Mississippi but Dr. David Tell of the University of Kansas is shortening the distance with his research, scholarship and actions related to the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till.February 7, 20172017Scholarship of ActivismJanuary 26, 20172017Indigenous ArtistJanuary 25, 2017Previous PagePage 10 of 23Next Page
