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Section: Demographics > African-American
African-American
Congress Passes Bill Making Juneteenth a Federal Holiday
Congress has passed a bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth –June 19 every year – marks the true end of slavery in the U.S., June 19, 1865, when Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger proclaimed freedom from slavery in Texas, nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. The holiday has been celebrated in 47 states […]
June 16, 2021
Students
Latter-Day Saints Church Funds Initiatives With NAACP and UNCF
Three initiatives that aim to provide scholarships, humanitarian aid and educational opportunity were announced Monday during a news conference from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the NAACP, Deseret News reported. The first initiative – funded by the church – will give $1 million a year for three […]
June 15, 2021
African-American
HBCU Leaders Urge Biden Administration to Select Executive Director of White House Initiative on HBCUs Soon
As the White House continues to fill key leadership positions, the executive director position for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) remains noticeably vacant.
June 11, 2021
African-American
Teenager Who Recorded Video of George Floyd’s Murder Wins Pulitzer Prize Citation
Darnella Frazier, the Minnesota teenager who recorded the 10-minute video of George Floyd’s May 25, 2020 murder, has won a special citation from the Pulitzer Prize committee, The New York Daily News reported. Frazier was cited “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality, around the world, […]
June 11, 2021
Students
Baltimore Ravens Owner Donates $4 Million to Create Scholarship Program, Named After Former GM Ozzie Newsome
Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti has donated $4 million to create the Ozzie Newsome Scholars Program, in honor of former Baltimore Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome. The money will be given to graduates of Baltimore City Public Schools s who choose to attend a Maryland historically Black college and university, The Root reported. The Stephen and […]
June 11, 2021
Leadership & Policy
Dr. M. Brian Blake Selected as Finalist for Georgia State University Presidency
Dr. M. Brian Blake has been selected as the finalist for president of Georgia State University, a role which would make him the first Black person to hold it, The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. Blake is currently provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at George Washington University. Previously, he served in administrative roles […]
June 11, 2021
African-American
Colleges and Universities Prepare for Juneteenth, Still a Nationally Unrecognized Holiday
Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee and a bipartisan senate commission is leading the latest push to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Renewed attention to the day came last year after the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and a nationwide galvanizing of Black Lives Matter protests.
June 10, 2021
African-American
Actor Morgan Freeman and University of Mississippi Professor Donate $1 Million to School for Policing Center
Actor Morgan Freeman and University of Mississippi Professor Linda Keena have donated $1 million to the school for a new center on policing, CNN reported. The Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform – pending approval by Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Education – will “build relationships and share data with policing agencies as well as use […]
June 10, 2021
African-American
Better Together: Four Mutually Reinforcing Strategies for Retaining Black Students and Faculty
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, higher education institutions are doubling down on efforts to retain Black faculty and students, especially at predominantly White institutions. In most instances, colleges and universities approach faculty and student retention separately, without understanding existing connections between Black faculty and Black students. Following are four ways that Black faculty and Black students are already connecting to provide support for each other.
June 9, 2021
Leadership & Policy
Dr. Jason Wingard Named First Black President of Temple University
Dr. Jason Wingard has been selected president of Temple University, becoming the school’s first Black president. Wingard is the former dean and professor of the School of Professional Studies at Columbia University. He has also served as chief learning officer at Goldman Sachs; founder and chairman of The Education Board, Inc; vice dean of the […]
June 8, 2021
Students
Virginia Union University Gives $6.35 Million to Help Students Pay Off School Debt
Virginia Union University gave more than $6.35 million to help 1,344 students pay off school debt, making it so that all graduating seniors had no debt to the school and continuing students had their current balance paid. The awarded students include 1,192 undergrad and 152 grad students. Federal funding – via the CARES Act – […]
June 8, 2021
African-American
Lawsuit is Likely if Nikole Hannah-Jones is Not Offered Tenure at UNC-Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill officials are talking with journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’s legal team, after threat of a federal discrimination lawsuit amid the university’s decision to refuse to offer her tenure with her hiring, The News & Observer reported. University officials responded last Friday to a letter from the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational […]
June 8, 2021
African-American
Why I Came Back: An Alumni Perspective
I never intended to stay this long. But I found myself enjoying working as an administrator at the college I graduated from almost a decade earlier.
June 8, 2021
Leadership & Policy
Harris-Stowe State University President Departs After One Year on the Job
Harris-Stowe State University President Dr. Corey S. Bradford Sr. has left the position after one year on the job, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Dr. LaTonia Collins Smith, who served as provost and vice president of academic affairs, has been appointed interim president. Bradford left to pursue “an opportunity at a research university,” according to a […]
June 7, 2021
African-American
TMCF to Create National Black Talent Bank to Increase Diversity in Workforce
The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) will create the National Black Talent Bank in an effort to increase corporate diversity and advance economic pathways for talented African American students. The talent bank will have a database of talented Black high school seniors and create alternative paths to college and career. It will also give a […]
June 7, 2021
African-American
Virginia Middle School Renamed After NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson
Sidney Lanier Middle School – a Fairfax, Virginia middle school named after a Confederate soldier – has been renamed in honor of African American NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson, ABC News reported. Lanier was a poet and Confederate private. Johnson was one of four Black women whose work with NASA helped pave the way for the […]
June 7, 2021
African-American
Knoxville College Receives $200,000 from City of Knoxville for Renovations
Knoxville College is getting $200,000 from the city of Knoxville to renovate a building housing the school’s workforce development program, Knox News reported. The $200,000 comes from the Community Agency Grant program for renovations to the Alumni Library. Dr. Leonard Adams, the school’s president, said administrators continue to secure funds from sources so that buildings […]
June 4, 2021
African-American
Black Chemist Declines UNC Faculty Position, Citing Controversial Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure Case
Dr. Lisa Jones, a prominent Black chemist, has turned down an offer to join the faculty at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill citing a decision by UNC trustees not to offer tenure to Pulitzer Prize journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, The News & Observer reported. And some faculty worry the loss of Jones – who […]
June 4, 2021
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