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Section: Demographics > African-American
African-American
You Matter: Essential Home Daycare Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As a former early childhood teacher and current associate professor of early childhood education, I am concerned, to put it mildly, about essential education professionals being overlooked or discounted in discussions and policies for P-12 teachers and brick and mortar schools. There are thousands of families depending on home daycare providers to teach and care for their children. I suspect the need has increased since this health pandemic, and those in dire need are families who live in poverty and the working poor, a disproportionate percentage of whom are Black and Latinx.
May 7, 2020
African-American
Student Parents Face Severe Housing and Food Insecurity, a New Report Finds
Student parents face severe housing and food insecurity, according to a new report from the Hope Center For College, Community, and Justice, a research center focused on college completion.
May 7, 2020
African-American
Ida B. Wells Wins Posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation
Ida B. Wells received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize citation on Monday for her “courageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching,” announced the Pulitzer Prize board on Monday. The citation comes with a bequest by the Pulitzer Prize board of at least $50,000 in support of her […]
May 5, 2020
Students
HBCUs to Host National Virtual Commencement Ceremony
After having conversations with seniors, Dr. Michael J. Sorrell, president of Paul Quinn College, recognized that many were upset about not being able to walk at graduation due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.Believing that students at other historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) shared a similar sentiment, Sorrell planned a virtual commencement ceremony to acknowledge the Class of 2020’s achievements.
May 4, 2020
African-American
D.C. to Financially Support Howard University’s New Teaching Hospital
Howard University and the Washington D.C. Mayor’s office last week announced a partnership under which the district will financially support a new teaching hospital at the university, toward the larger goal of building a citywide healthcare network that will serve residents in all communities. The district is going to provide Howard and a partner a […]
May 4, 2020
African-American
Amid COVID-19, Doubling Pell Grants is the Next Urgent Need for HBCUs, Says UNCF
The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) is soon going to pitch for doubling Pell Grants so Black and other minority students consider attending college an attractive option despite the widespread economic havoc caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
May 1, 2020
African-American
‘More Rivers to Cross’ for Penn State to Improve Status of Black Faculty
Penn State University still has “more rivers to cross” to improve the status of its Black faculty, according to a recent report by two of its professors who spent more than eight months researching the subject in an effort to highlight diversity issues at the institution.
April 30, 2020
African-American
Jackson State University Counsels Local Small Businesses Impacted By COVID-19
Jackson State University’s Small Business Development Center is working with local small businesses impacted by the pandemic.
April 30, 2020
African-American
First-Year Students at Edward Waters College to Receive Laptops
Starting in the fall, first-year students at the historically Black Edward Waters College (EWC) will receive personal Chromebook laptop computers, in a new partnership between EWC and the Follett Higher Education Group, the college said in a statement. The collaboration, called the EWC/Follet ACCESS Program, is intended to enhance student access to technology. It will […]
April 28, 2020
African-American
Racist Hackers ‘Zoombomb’ Online Meeting of U of South Carolina’s African American Students
An online social gathering of the University of South Carolina’s (UofSC) African American students was ‘Zoombombed’ by hackers who invaded the video conferencing platform with racial slurs and images, reported WVLT 8. The incident occurred at an annual spring cookout hosted by the university’s Association of African American Students on Friday. The event was held […]
April 27, 2020
African-American
Asian Americans are Not the “Model Minority”
Asian Americans are wrongly assumed to be doing well, uniformly and virtually without exception. The stereotype, dubbed “the model minority myth,” has been debunked again and again, but it persists in ideological claims that Asian Americans demonstrate racial discrimination has been eliminated and hard work is all it takes to do well.
April 27, 2020
African-American
Two Young HBCU Graduates Raise Funds for Students Impacted by COVID-19
In the wake of COVID-19, Jonathan Allen and Derrick Young Jr. were anxious to lend a helping hand. Both Allen and Young — two graduates of Grambling State University, a historically Black university in Louisiana — launched an online fund to provide small emergency grants to Boston-area college students displaced by coronavirus.
April 24, 2020
African-American
Dr. Pellom McDaniels, NFL Veteran and Emory Professor, Dies at 52
Dr. Pellom McDaniels III, a National Football League (NFL) veteran and assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University, died Sunday in Atlanta, reported Oregon Live. He was 52. McDaniels began his athletic and academic career at Oregon State University where he earned accolades playing as a defensive lineman, said a statement on Emory’s […]
April 21, 2020
African-American
Diversity in the DACA Numbers—Undocumented Whites
For the first time, someone thought it would be a good idea to do an official count of undocumented students in higher ed. And yes, it confirms what we know more or less, there’s a lot of them, about 450,000, two percent of all students in post-secondary education, according to the The New American Economy and the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, which collaborated on the survey using Census data.
April 19, 2020
African-American
‘Protect Students, Faculty and Staff of Color’: Emory U’s Student Newspaper Editorial to Incoming President
An editorial in Emory University’s student newspaper calls on newly-appointed president Gregory Fenves to “protect students, faculty and staff of color.” Fenves, currently president of the University of Texas at Austin, was named Emory president on April 7. He begins his new position on August 1. “As we welcome Fenves to the Emory community and […]
April 19, 2020
African-American
Student Body Leaders: To Ensure Equity Accept Pass/Fail Grades Without Conditions
Student leaders said the shutdown of campuses has caused a huge upheaval in many students’ lives, especially in the learning environments for historically marginalized and low-income undergraduates. And graduate schools and potential employees must take this into consideration.
April 15, 2020
African-American
How TMCF is Responding to COVID-19
There is little question that higher education in general, and our historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in particular, have been greatly impacted by COVID-19, the likes of which we have not seen in our lifetime.
April 15, 2020
African-American
Medical Colleges Association Calls For Race, Ethnicity Data on COVID-19 Infections
The Association of American Medical Colleges is calling for more granular data that reflects the race and ethnicity of people sickened by COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. The association said the pandemic is illuminating longstanding social, economic and health inequities in the U.S. And it is visible in that people of color, […]
April 14, 2020
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