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African-American
Philander Smith College Receives $25,000 Gift to Honor Civil Rights Lawyer Scipio A. Jones
Philander Smith College, a historically Black college in Arkansas, has received a $25,000 gift from Rush and Linda Harding to honor civil rights lawyer Scipio A. Jones who attended the school in 1883. Later this year, a commissioned portrait of Jones will be put on display in the downtown Little Rock post office, the Scipio […]
March 17, 2021
African-American
Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and Boston Globe’s Opinion Team to Bring Back Antislavery Newspaper, The Emancipator
Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research and The Boston Globe‘s opinion team are resurrecting the U.S.’s first antislavery newspaper, The Emancipator, founded more than 200 years ago. “Just as 19th-century abolitionist newspapers hastened abolition, this project will amplify critical voices, ideas, and evidence-based opinion in an effort to reframe the national conversation and hasten racial […]
March 16, 2021
African-American
Tufts University Takes Steps, Pledges $25 Million, to Become Anti-racist
Tufts University is pledging $25 million over five years to become an anti-racist institution, Boston.com reported. Over seven months, Tufts reviewed five areas – campus safety and policing, public art, an institutional audit and targeted action, compositional diversity and equity and inclusion – resulting in more than 180 recommendations. Tufts President Dr. Tony Monaco said […]
March 16, 2021
African-American
Spelman College Announces Public Phase of $250 Million Fundraising Campaign
Spelman College has announced the public phase of its $250 million fundraising campaign, Spelman’s largest comprehensive campaign. The campaign, Spelman Ascends, will go toward financial aid, faculty professorships, technology infrastructure, a Center for Innovation & the Arts, new academic programs and entrepreneurship, according to Spelman officials. Spelman has already raised more than $240 million, 96% […]
March 15, 2021
African-American
Howard, Columbia To Produce Book Series Together, Marking ‘The First of Its Kind’ Collaboration
Nearly a decade after its university press closed, Howard University announced a collaborative publishing project with Columbia University Press (CUP) earlier this month. The press will publish a new, ongoing book series in the field of Black studies, providing Howard with the unique opportunity to reenter the curatorial world of scholarly publishing. With Howard as an historically Black university and Columbia a wealthy Ivy League institution, the partnership is considered to be a first of its kind in publishing.
March 12, 2021
African-American
Leonard Pitts Jr. Awarded Colby College Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for Courage in Journalism
Colby College will be giving journalist Leonard Pitts Jr. its Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award this year. Pitts – also a commentator, columnist, educator and author – currently writes for the Miami Herald and is prominently known for his syndicated column addressing race, politics and culture. Pitts is being awarded “for his courage in writing about […]
March 11, 2021
African-American
Town of Amherst Seeks to Give Black Residents Reparations
Amherst, a college town in Massachusetts is looking to provide reparations to African Americans, making the town one of many communities and organizations in that pursuit, Associated Press reported. Actions began in Amherst with a Summer 2020 petition initiated by two White people, leading to a town council approving a resolution to help Black residents […]
March 10, 2021
African-American
Three University of South Alabama Professors Put on Leave After Racist Pictures Emerge
Three tenured professors at the University of South Alabama have been placed on leave after photos of them wearing and holding racist symbols at a 2014 campus event surfaced, CNN reported. South Alabama students started a petition –garnering more than 3,000 signatures – that call for their firing. The three faculty are Bob Wood, Alex […]
March 9, 2021
African-American
Reducing the Cost of Higher Education Through the Invaluable Mission of Community Colleges and Affordable HBCUs
There is a significant need to foster better collaborative relationships among community colleges and HBCUs. Throughout history, HBCUs and community colleges have played a critical role in educating diverse students seeking to receive higher education.
March 8, 2021
Sports
NBA All-Star Game Honors HBCUs, Donates to Multiple Funds
Team LeBron defeated Team Durant 170-150 in the 2021 NBA All-Star Game Sunday, People reported. Art by HBCU students was displayed throughout the arena, with the All-Star Game’s court itself featuring art honoring HBCUs – designed with help from HBCU alumni. As part of the event, the NBA also gave more than $3 million to […]
March 8, 2021
African-American
Howard University Names Law School Library After Alum and Civil Rights Advocate Vernon Jordan
Howard University has named its Law School library after civil rights advocate, author and Howard alum, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. The library will be known as the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Esq. Law Library. Jordan was an adviser to several U.S. presidents, including Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. He died […]
March 8, 2021
African-American
Summit Aims to Support Black Male Student Success
Hundreds of higher education leaders and students gathered at the African American Male Education Network and Development’s (A2MEND) annual summit last week to discuss Black male experiences at community colleges.
March 5, 2021
African-American
The Long Battle For UCLA’s Black Resource Center
Black students at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have been calling for a Black Resource Center for more than five years. In June, UCLA announced that it would create the center, which is now in the planning stages. For Black student activists, this is a success story, but it also felt like a long-fought battle.
March 5, 2021
Sports
Florida A&M Sign Six-Year School-Wide Apparel Contract with Nike
Florida A&M University (FAMU) has partnered with athletic apparel brand Nike and NBA star LeBron James for six years, UPROXX reported. The partnership contract applies to all 15 sports at the school. The school’s men’s and women’s basketball teams will now be “Team LeBron”, with James’s crown icon on their uniforms and their new FAMU […]
March 5, 2021
African-American
Laurie A. Carter Named First Black President of Lawrence University
Laurie A. Carter will be the 17th president of Lawrence University, effective July 1, making her the school’s first Black president. Since 2017, she has served as president of Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. In the past, she has served at The Juilliard School and Eastern Kentucky University, where she was executive vice president and university […]
March 4, 2021
African-American
Report Analyzes High Unemployment Among Black Men
A recent report has analyzed the causes and potential solutions for why Black men suffer from the highest unemployment rates of any race and gender group. Looking through Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, report author Dr. Harry J. Holzer, a nonresident senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, found that Black men […]
March 4, 2021
African-American
Kansas State University Criticize University Responses to Racist Incidents
Students at Kansas State University are criticizing the school on its alleged failure to protect students, The Kansas City Star reported. This comes after someone wrote hateful messages about Black History Month inside KSU’s new Morris Family Multicultural Student Center Feb. 26, weeks after the center’s launch. The students are asking for an annual full […]
March 3, 2021
African-American
University of Tennessee Knoxville to Rename Two Residence Halls after Black Trailblazers
The University of Tennessee Knoxville is renaming two residence halls after Theotis Robinson and Rita Sanders Geier, two African American trailblazers and social justice advocates. UTK’s Orange Hall will be renamed after Geier and White Hall after Robinson. Robinson was the first Black undergraduate student admitted into UTK and one of three Black students to […]
February 26, 2021
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