- 6 months ago
Cecelia Valrie has received the Award for Interdisciplinary Collaboration from the National Institute of Health’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) Initiative. The initiative presented Dr. Valrie with the award in recognition of her pro...
- 6 months ago
Xavier University of Louisiana, a historically Black university in New Orleans, has unveiled a statue of alumnus and president emeritus Norman Francis in the the university’s Convocation Center. Francis began his career with Xavier University a...
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Robert L. Palmer, former vice president for student affairs at California State University Fullerton, passed away on January 29. He was 80 years old. Dr. Palmer spent over three decades in student affairs leadership positions. He joined the State Uni...
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Elizabeth Miller Rawlins, a longtime professor of education at Simmons College, passed away on February 3 at the age of 96. Dr. Rawlins began her career in education as an elementary school teacher at various public and private schools in Massachuset...
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Loretta Parham, chief executive officer and director of the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, has announced her retirement at the end of this academic year after 19 years of service. The Atlanta University Center is the lar...
- 6 months ago
An ongoing project at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis is documenting the travels and public speeches of Frederick Douglass in a new interactive digital map. The mapping project stems from the Frederick Douglass Papers research unit...
- 6 months ago
A new study from researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of California, Santa Barbara has examined how White people respond when encountering racists posts on social media and how likely they are to challenge hat...
- 6 months ago
Camille Davidson has been named president and dean of Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She will be the school’s third president, and the first Black woman to hold the position. In 2015, William Mitchell College of Law an...
- 6 months ago
New research from scholars at Duke University in North Carolina and the University of Utah has found Black entrepreneurs are less likely to share their ideas within their personal network and are more likely to seek advice from a stranger who is a bu...
- 6 months ago
Jarso Maley Jallah, associate vice president of student success at historically Black Delaware State University, has been appointed Minister of Education for Liberia, her native country. Prior to her tenure with Delaware State University, Dr. Jallah...
- 6 months ago
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund and the African American Research Collaborative has found that nearly half of health care workers in the United States have witnessed racism against patients, and the majority believe that racism is a major pro...
- 6 months ago
Marion Ross Fedrick, president of historically Black Albany State University in Georgia, announced she is stepping down from her role as president. Effective July 1, Dr. Fedrick is taking on a new role with Georgia State University as executive vice...
- 6 months ago
North Carolina Central University is creating a new architectural design degree program, which will be the first of its kind at a historically Black college or university. Brenda Faison, director of the North Carolina Central University Art Museum an...
- 6 months ago
Joe William Trotter Jr. has been honored with the John Lewis Award for History and Social Justice from the American Historical Association. The award is given annually in recognition of a historian for their leadership and sustained engagement at the...
- 6 months ago
Morehouse School of Medicine, a historically Black medical school based in Atlanta, Georgia, is looking to expand on its partnership with CommonSpirit Health by adding a new regional medical campus at the CHI Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tenness...
