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Reaching for the Stars

Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman astronaut of color, seeks minority inclusion in space and in the classroom.

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Pioneering Black Studies Scholar Roy Bryce-Laporte Dies

Dr. Roy Bryce-Laporte, a sociologist who directed one of the first Black studies departments at an American university, died late last month in Sykesville, Md.

Dr. Roy Bryce-Laporte

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NASA Research Partnership Benefiting HBCU Students

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has partnered with Tuskegee University and Alabama A&M University on a three-year collaborative research project, which includes internships for HBCU students at the space flight center.

Goddard meeting

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Tennessee State University Faculty Leader Arrested

A vocal faculty member at Tennessee State University who has opposed university leadership was taken away from a meeting in handcuffs on Monday and removed as the chair of the faculty senate.

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APLU’s Lorenzo Esters to Join Kentucky State University

At the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities, Dr. Lorenzo L. Esters applied ‘vigor and excitement” to the task of broadening higher education access and opportunities for minority and other underrepresented students.

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St. Augustine’s Change Goes Beyond Its Name

Academic changes at St. Augustine’s College prompt a rebranding.

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Activist Attorney Calls for ‘Militant’ Action Against Injustices in Public Education

Young students are best suited to wage the battle for public education—and against the expansion of charter schools—and large-scale integration of the nation’s public schools should be a paramount goal in the fight.

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Commentary: The Black Church – Not a Monolith

It is quite parochial and wrongheaded to purport that the Black church, as if a monolith, is responsible for a diminution of progressive social action by African-Americans, contends Illya Davis, a lecturer of philosophy and religion at Clark Atlanta University.

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Echoes of Faith: Church Roots Run Deep Among HBCUs

Religious leaders, local churches, missionaries, and denominations were descending across the South in the 19th century, believing that it was worth it to spend their time and money and do the right thing when they decided to establish seminaries, classrooms, colleges, and even medical schools for Blacks.

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Soledad O’Brien’s Education Foundation Celebrates Second Annual Gala

Two years after launching, the Soledad O’Brien and Brad Raymond Foundation is well on its way to becoming a key change agent in higher education.

Soledad and Brad

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White House: New African-American Initiative to Cover All Education

President Obama’s new initiative on African-American education will focus on the full spectrum of pre-K to higher education learning and will “complement” the federal initiative on historically Black schools, the White House says.

President Barack Obama

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White House: New African-American Initiative to Cover All Education

President Obama’s new initiative on African-American education will focus on the full spectrum of pre-K to higher education learning and will “complement” the federal initiative on historically Black schools, the White House says.

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