Category : Education

Did North Carolina A&T State University Police Use Excessive Force Against Black Student?

Verdant Julius, the sophomore class president at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, was arrested by campus police while attempting to enter his residence hall with two friends to clear out his belongings as the university transiti...

Fatimah Jackson to Receive the Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award

Fatimah Jackson, a professor of biology and the director of the W. Montague Cobb Research Laboratory at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is the recipient of the 2020 Charles R. Darwin Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the first woman of Afric...

Howard University School of Business Enhances its MBA Degree Offerings

The Howard University School of Business has announced a partnership with Noodle Partners to launch an online MBA degree program and invest in the growth of its online Executive MBA program. This marks the first HBCU to work with Noodle Partners, the...

Three Black Women Named Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards

Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. Three of the six winning authors this year are Black women....

The Heman Sweatt Leadership Institute Is Established at Wiley College

Wiley College, a historically Black educational institution in Marshall, Texas, has launched the Heman Sweatt Leadership Institute. Sweatt was a 1934 graduate of Wiley College. In 1946, he was denied admission to the law school at the University...

Michelle Samuel-Foo Elected President of the Southeastern Entomological Society of America

Michelle Samuel-Foo, an assistant professor of biology at Alabama State University, was named president of the Southeastern Entomological Society of America. The society is the largest organization in the world serving the professional and scientific...

New Children’s Book Extols the Virtues of Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Yvette Manns, who grew up in Jamaica, New York, is a graduate of historically Black Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, where she majored in early childhood education. The day after graduation she was hired as a public school teacher. While teaching...

The Next Director of Athletics at Morehouse College in Atlanta

Curtis Campbell, a veteran administrator with nearly 20 years of experience in intercollegiate athletics at both NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III schools, has been hired as the next director of athletics at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He will...

University of Notre Dame Debuts Online Archive of Students’ Stories Relating to Race

The Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana has launched a new initiative to collect stories relating to race and encourage constructive dialogue at the university. All...

Berkeley Scholar Aims to Increase Retention Rates of Black Male Public School Teachers

Travis J. Bristol is an assistant professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his duties at the university, Dr. Bristol has created a series of “affinity groups” for male teachers of color at public schools to add...

In Memoriam: John F. Merchant, 1933-2020

John F. Merchant, who was the first Black graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, died on March 5 in Newtown, Connecticut. He was 87 years old and had suffered from cancer. An attorney, Merchant also taught at Fairfield University and S...

Exhibit Documents History of Racial Discrimination and Violence in the Railroad Industry

A new exhibit at the Catherwood Library of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, documents the history of racial discrimination in the railroad industry. The exhibit, “The Other Side of The Trac...

Scholar Donates 100 Pieces of African American Art to the Yale University Art Gallery

Robert Steele spent 40 years on the faculty of the psychology department at the University of Maryland, College Park. He then served nearly a decade as the director of the university’s David C. Driskell Center, which supports the promotion and study...

The Racial Gap in Four-Year High School Graduation Rates

The United States Department of Education recently compiled a new report on high school graduation rates in the United States. Nationwide, in the 2017-18 academic year, 85.3 percent of all students graduated from high school in four years. For White...

Bobbie Knight Is the New President of Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama

The board of trustees of Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama, has appointed Bobbie Knight as the educational institution’s 15th president. She has been serving as interim president since August 2019. Miles College enrolls 1,550 students, accord...