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Founder of Black AIDS Institute Retires

Phill Wilson, the founder and president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute (BAI) since its inception in 1999, has recently retired. The Institute is the only national HIV/AIDS think tank in the country that’s focused on African-Americans.

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Scholar-Alumna Returns to Prairie View A&M after 20 Years

Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) students will soon see Dr. Melanye Price – an alumna and newly appointed endowed professor – on campus when she returns to the historically Black university this spring.

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Report: Stereotypes in College STEM Classes Harm Black and Asian Students

A recent study funded by the National Science Foundation found that Black and Asian undergraduate college students are negatively affected by stereotypes and labels within their science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) academic environments.

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Education in Spite of It All: A Black Woman’s Journey

My mother, Dr. Mildred Pratt, died in 2012. I think about her often. She was one of the first-generation of Black women to become a full professor at a predominantly White institution. When she became a full professor in the 1970s, Black women represented 1 percent of all full professors. As of 2016, Black women, like me, represent 2 percent of all full professors. In fact, out of all the full-time faculty in degree-granting postsecondary institutions, Black women only represent 3 percent of all faculty. We need more.

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‘Mascu’sectionality: Theorizing an Alternative Framework for Black Males

The theorizing and theoretical frameworks speaking to the male experience, particularly the Black male experience has tended to emanate from a place of deficit thinking and pathology. Hence, for Black males and those who study this population, engaging in critical discourse about their epistemological and ontological being is at best lopsided.

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A Revived “North Star” Emerges

Beginning next month, an updated North Star, founded by activist journalist Shaun King and edited by noted scholar Dr. Keisha Blain, will emerge online with content created by progressives seeking to agitate for justice in the spirit of Frederick Douglass and the movement he inspired.

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Study: Black Students who Have One Black Teacher are More Likely to Enroll in College

Representation in education matters. According to a recent study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, data shows that Black students who have at least one teacher of their race both reduces Black students’ high school dropout rates and increases the chances of them wanted to and enrolling in college. The study, titled “The […]

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A Lottery for Harvard and Other Elite Schools?

As we wait for the judge’s decision, one interesting essay has been published in Quartz by Natasha Warikoo, an associate professor of education at Harvard. Warikoo suggests Harvard save time, money and anxiety by running a lottery. That’s right. A lottery.

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HBCU Websites Must Adhere to American with Disabilities Act Guidelines

Over the next few years schools that fail to address whether their websites and other tools are consistent with ADA guidelines will encounter additional challenges. This is important considering that HBCUs are traditionally underfunded.

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Support Grows for Imperiled Bennett College

By postal service and online, in amounts small and large, a steady stream of donations is flowing into Bennett College every day as the private, all-women HBCU seeks to raise $5 million in unrestricted funds by February. The North Carolina school is fighting to avoid a loss of accreditation that could force its closure.

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Mutcherson Marks Three Major Firsts for Rutgers Law School in Camden

Noted bioethics and health law scholar Kimberly Mutcherson is the first woman, first African-American and first LGBT person to be named co-dean of Rutgers Law School in Camden.

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HBCU Chaplains Evolve to Meet the Spiritual Needs of their Students

For years, HBCU chaplains have played a critical role in nourishing students from entry to exit. The job has become a bit more difficult, in part because there has been an overall decline in the number of church-going college students in recent decades.

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