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Section: Awards/Honors

Leading Historian and Author Lerone Bennett, Jr. Dies At 89

Lerone Bennett, Jr., a leading Black historian and journalist, died this week at age 89. He had vascular dementia.

February 15, 2018

Diverse Honors 3 Stellar Educators with Dr. John Hope Franklin Award

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education has announced the 2018 recipients of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. They are:

February 12, 2018

Art for Social Justice

January 24, 2018

Exploring the Effects of Incarceration

January 24, 2018

HEATHER-WASHINGTON

The Power of Medicine

January 24, 2018

EFRAIN-TALAMANTES

Making Geological History

January 24, 2018

Knowledge Is Power

January 24, 2018

TARISSA-SPOONHUNTER

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

ETendayi-Achiume

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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