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Section: Awards/Honors

Identifying Educational Inequities

January 24, 2018

LEOANDRA-ROGERS

Relationships Remain Key

January 23, 2018

Grasping Black Politics

January 23, 2018

Embracing Motherhood

January 23, 2018

Aspiration and Effort

January 23, 2018

PADMAJA-GUGGILLA

Defying Expectations

January 23, 2018

Expanding the Repertoire

January 22, 2018

Philosophy’s Relevance

January 22, 2018

Building the Athletics Bridge

January 16, 2018

Combating Intolerance Internationally

January 16, 2018

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How the Country’s First Black Collegiate Greek-lettered Fraternity Changed the Nation

Exactly one hundred and eleven years ago, the country’s first Black collegiate Greek-lettered fraternity was founded. On that Tuesday, in 1906, the decision by a group of young Black collegiate men at Cornell University was made to transform their organization into a fraternity. In doing so, Henry Arthur Callis, Charles Henry Chapman, Eugene Kinckle Jones, George Biddle Kelley, Nathaniel Allison Murray, Robert Harold Ogle, and Vertner Woodson Tandy altered the landscape of America’s colleges and universities.

December 4, 2017

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A Section of Highway in Durham to be Named for Dr. John Hope Franklin

DURHAM A section of Interstate 85 in Durham, N.C., will be named in honor of one of the nation’s most distinguished African-American historians, who spent his later years teaching at Duke University. The John Hope Franklin Highway will be dedicated at a ceremony at the Hayti Heritage Center at 1 p.m. Monday, according to an […]

November 25, 2017

A Year Later, National Museum of African American History and Culture Continues to Draw Crowds

The Smithsonian NMAAHC encapsulates the powerful narrative of African-Americans and their significant journey to and within the United States.

September 24, 2017

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The Value of ‘an HBCU Experience’

During my junior year in high school, my assistant principal pulled me aside and told me something I didn’t quite understand at the time: “Will, you can have a college experience, or you can have an HBCU experience.”

July 3, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Remembering Samuel DuBois Cook

Higher education stalwart Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, a political scientist and human rights activist, died Monday in Atlanta at age 88.

June 1, 2017

Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook and his wife, Sylvia.

Paul Sime - Soccer

April 7, 2017

Female Semi-Finalists

Nicole Evans - Softball

April 5, 2017

African-American

Franklin Award Winner John Lewis Says Time is Now for ‘Good Trouble’

Speaking at a reception where he received the John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse, U.S. Rep. John Lewis urged those in attendance to continue to fight the good fight at a time when many essential services are at stake.

March 13, 2017

Dr. Samuel L. Myers, foreground, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, center left, and Dr. Wilma J. Roscoe, center right, were honored as 2017 John Hope Franklin Award winners. (Photo courtesy of Jonathan Armstrong)