- 8 months ago
A new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic has found older African Americans with depression are more likely to experience a faster cognitive decline compared to White Americans with depression who are of a similar age. The research team conduct...
- 8 months ago
Royce D. Burnett has been named dean of the School of Business and Management at historically Black Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He most recently served as a professor and chair of the School of Accountancy in the Strome College of...
- 8 months ago
A new study published in Cornell University’s research archive, arXiv, has found popular artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT hold racist stereotypes regarding African American Vernacular English, the native variety of English spoke by...
- 8 months ago
The Southern University System board of supervisors has named John K. Pierre as the chancellor of Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge. The historically Black university enrolls about 8,500 undergraduae students and more than 1,700...
- 8 months ago
Historically Black Delaware State University has signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Belize in Central America to partner together on various collaborative research and academic initiatives. Through their new partnership, the...
- 8 months ago
Caree Banton has been appointed chair of the department of history in the Fulbright College of Arts and Science at the University of Arkansas. She has been with the university since 2013, currently serving as an associate professor of history and dir...
- 8 months ago
Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, Georgia, has announced it will offer a concentration in cosmetic chemistry for students majoring in chemistry as well as a minor in cosmetic science for students in other majors....
- 8 months ago
Kimberly Enard, an associate professor in the College for Public Health and Social Justice at Saint Louis University in Missouri, has been honored with the 2024 John D. Thompson Prize from the Association of University Programs for Health Administrat...
- 8 months ago
City Year, a member organization of AmeriCorps focused on developing diverse leaders through educational volunteer service, has partnered with historically Black Paul Quinn College in Dallas to make higher education more accessible for City Year Amer...
- 8 months ago
Alexander Miller has been named vice president of student affairs and dean of students at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He currently serves as vice president of student life at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. He has ove...
- 8 months ago
Paul F. Bitting, a professor at North Carolina State University for nearly three decades, passed away on March 8. He was 79 years old. In 1989, Dr. Bitting joined the faculty of the College of Education at North Carolina State University where he tau...
- 8 months ago
Rutgers University Newark in New Jersey has named its Center for Politics and Race in America after the late Lieutenant Governor Sheila Y. Oliver, the first Black woman to hold a statewide office in New Jersey. Oliver was elected New Jersey’s L...
- 8 months ago
Phylicia Rashad, dean of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at historically Black Howard University, has announced her retirement effective at the conclusion of this academic year. Rashad, a Howard University alumna, has an over four-decade...
- 8 months ago
Mercer County Community College in New Jersey has partnered with the New Jersey Black Women’s Collective to launch the New Jersey Black Women’s Collective Leadership Institute. The program was created to support emerging Black women leade...
- 8 months ago
The University of Maryland has released a report documenting the history of enslaved Black people who worked and or lived on land that is now part of the school’s campus. The report is the latest endeavor from “The 1856 Project,” a...
