- 10 months ago
Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman has been named president of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine for the 2024-2025 term. The society, based in Washington, was established to optimize equitable health outcomes for all birthing people by serving as a profe...
- 10 months ago
A new report from the National Association of Realtors has examined Census data regarding American homeownership from 2012 to 2022 and found the rate of Black Americans who own a home has barely increased over the past 10 years. From 2012 to 2022, ho...
- 10 months ago
Safiya George has been selected as the next president of the University of the Virgin Islands. Dr. George will assume her presidency in August. The University of Virgin Islands enrolls just over 1,600 students, consisting of roughly 1,300 undergradua...
- 10 months ago
A new study from researchers at the University of Kansas, the University of Miami, and the University of Texas San Antonio has examined the relationship between race, gun ownership, and gun control policies in the United States. The results did not f...
- 10 months ago
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad has been selected as the next president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The center, located in the District of Columbia, is a public policy think tank focusing on research that has a positive impact on...
- 10 months ago
Esther Jones has been appointed the inaugural associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She will also serve as associate professor of Africana studies. Prior to jo...
- 10 months ago
A new Ph.D. program in counselor education and supervision has been established at Bowie State University, the oldest historically Black university in Maryland. The new program is the third of its kind at a historically Black college or university, w...
- 10 months ago
Historically Black Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina has partnered with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to establish a pathway for obtaining graduate certificates and doctoral degrees in health sciences for students...
- 10 months ago
Kimberly White-Smith has received the Edward C. Pomeroy Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. The honor is given annually to a recipient who has demonstrated distingu...
- 10 months ago
Historically Black South Carolina State University has established a concentration in fire protection engineering as an additional learning opportunity for students pursuing civil engineering degrees. The new program was created in partnership with S...
- 10 months ago
Edgar Lawrence “Dooky” Chase III, former dean and vice president of historically Black Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana, passed away on February 21 at the age of 74. Chase joined business department faculty at Dillard Universi...
- 10 months ago
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, has renamed its program in racism, immigration, and citizenship to the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism. The center is committed to studying historical injust...
- 10 months ago
The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $2 million grant to the Chicago Public Library to digitize the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, the largest cache of African American history and literature in the midwestern United States. Vivian Harsh was the...
- 10 months ago
Yale University has issued a formal apology due to findings uncovered in Yale and Slavery: A History, authored by David Blight, professor of history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale...
- 10 months ago
Kean University in Union, New Jersey, has established the Center for Africana Studies within the university’s College of Education to serve as an academic research resource for scholars, faculty, and students at Kean University, as well as cult...
