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Section: Demographics > African-American
African-American
Annual HBCU Moguls in the Making Business Competition Begins Thursday
The second annual Moguls in the Making, a business plan pitch competition offering Historically Black College and University (HBCU) students opportunities to develop vital skills, will take place virtually Oct. 8-11. The competition is hosted by Ally Financial Inc., Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), and rapper and singer Big Sean’s foundation, the Sean Anderson Foundation […]
October 7, 2020
African-American
Chipotle Adds Its First HBCU to Employee Debt-Free Degree Program
Chipotle Mexican Grill announced it is expanding its debt-free degree program to include Paul Quinn College, the U.S.’s first urban work college and one of the U.S.’s oldest historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU), QSR reported. Partnering with Guild Education, Chipotle covers 100% of tuition costs up front for more than 75 business and technology […]
October 7, 2020
African-American
UC San Diego Receives Two Grants to Improve Faculty Diversity
The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) has been given two grants totaling $700,000 to improve its faculty diversity. The grants were funded by the University of California Office of the President through the UC Advancing Faculty Diversity grant program, according to UCSD. According to UCSD, the first grant – a one-time fund of […]
October 7, 2020
African-American
John A. Logan College Cancels Diversity Events, Citing Fear of Trump’s Recent Executive Order
John A. Logan College canceled all planned diversity activities last week, citing concerns that the school could lose federal funding if it violates President Donald Trump’s Sept. 22 executive order, which prohibits workforce diversity trainings that are “offensive and anti-American race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating,” FOX 28 reported. According to college officials, they “will […]
October 6, 2020
African-American
Lincoln U Granted Preliminary Approval to Establish First HBCU Law Enforcement Training Academy
Lincoln University has been granted preliminary approval to establish the U.S.’s first law enforcement basic training academy at a historically Black college or university (HBCU), with a unanimous vote from the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Commission, KRCG reported. The decision came after a Monday meeting during which the commission discussed the results of […]
October 6, 2020
African-American
Three Black Female Authors Among 2020 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners
Three prominent Black female authors — N.K. Jemisin, Jacqueline Woodson and Tressie McMillan Cottom — are among 21 winners of this year’s MacArthur Foundation “genius grants,” reports CNN, which explained that the winners will receive a $625,000 “no-strings-attached” award paid out over five years. Since 1981, more than 1,000 people have earned the honor, with acclaimed […]
October 6, 2020
Students
HBCUs and White Churches: a Collaboration Long Overdue
Churches have a long history of advocating for civil rights. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the Baptist, Methodist and other religious denominations united to support civil rights for African Americans. Many churches, for example, provided shelter to protesters during civil rights marches. They organized food assistance programs, assisted homeless with housing needs […]
October 5, 2020
African-American
2020 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education Kicks Off Tuesday
Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Ohio State University’s Todd Anthony Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male will hold the 2020 International Colloquium on Black Males in Education (ICBME) virtually this year, with events each Tuesday in October, according to a University of Wisconsin-Madison press […]
October 5, 2020
African-American
Kevin Young Named as New Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Kevin Young, who is currently the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, has been named the new director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. He will begin his new role in January. Young is a poet, author, essayist, and editor at The New Yorker magazine. This […]
October 5, 2020
African-American
Common App Removes Disciplinary Violation Question
The Common Application is removing a question about high school disciplinary violations after research found that the answer disproportionately affected students of color, particularly Black students, CNN reported. Black applicants are twice as likely than White applicants to answer yes to the question. And students who disclose school disciplinary records – mostly students of color […]
October 2, 2020
African-American
Kansas City Art Institute Hires First Director of Talent and Inclusion
Shawntae Jones was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. Now, she’s serving as the first director of talent and inclusion at Kansas City Art Institute.
September 30, 2020
Faculty & Staff
Say Their Names, But Not the N-Word
The current reckoning about anti-Blackness in the United States is exposing the limits of solidarity. Millions of white and non-white people have marched and expressed support for Black Lives by saying the names of men and women brutally killed or shot in police custody. This powerful act of solidarity humanizes these victims while bearing witness to systemic racism. At the same time, faculty in some of our nation’s colleges and universities continue to defend the right to utter the N-word as part of their educational practice. This counterintuitive notion is not just tone-deaf to the national reckoning but harms the institutional culture, devalues the presence of Black faculty, staff and students, and compromises the moral credibility of the professoriate.
September 30, 2020
African-American
Harvard Business School Renames Building After Renowned Black Professor
Harvard Business School (HBS) announced Tuesday that it will rename a building on its campus in honor of Dr. James I. Cash, a retired faculty member known for his leadership and for breaking barriers for Black people. The announcement came at a virtual town hall with faculty, staff and students. “When one thinks of individuals […]
September 30, 2020
African-American
NBA Star Chris Paul Enrolls at HBCU
NBA star Chris Paul has enrolled at Winston-Salem State University, a North Carolina historically Black college, where he will take a class and encourage students to get to the polls, the NBA reported. Paul’s parents also attended Winston-Salem State. “We are providing transportation to HBCU students to get the polls so we are working on […]
September 30, 2020
African-American
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson Heads to Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt University has scored a major coup in luring Dr. Michael Eric Dyson—one of the nation’s most prominent Black intellectuals—from Georgetown University.
September 29, 2020
African-American
Legal Scholars Worry About Affirmative Action and Civil Rights if Barrett is Confirmed
As Judge Amy Coney Barrett makes the rounds on Capitol Hill this week in preparation for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee next month, some legal scholars are concerned about what her appointment to the high court might mean for the future of civil rights and affirmative action. “I am very concerned about […]
September 29, 2020
African-American
Duke Campus Building Named after Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke
The Duke University Board of Trustees voted unanimously to rename the sociology-psychology building after Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, a 1967 graduate of the university. Reuben-Cooke was a member of the first class of Black undergraduates at Duke, and had an extraordinary career as an attorney, professor of law, and senior administrator at Syracuse University, Georgetown University, and […]
September 28, 2020
African-American
Trump Administration Sends 250K COVID-19 Tests to 41 HBCUs
A White House official said the administration has shipped more than 250,000 rapid coronavirus tests to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), according to The Hill. Officials said that the first shipment included 250,000 rapid tests for 41 colleges and universities, including Howard University. White House officials said they expect to deliver another 300,000 tests […]
September 25, 2020
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