- 11 months ago
Three graduate students in archaeology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, worked with the Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission in Newport, Rhode Island, to create an interactive map of God’s Little Acre, one of the oldest African and A...
- 11 months ago
Every spring, the Association of African American Students at the University of South Carolina holds a cookout to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year. This year the event was moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While students gather...
- 11 months ago
Pellom McDaniels III, curator of African American collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, died on April 19 at his home in Decatur, Georgia. He was 52 years old. “The depth of o...
- 11 months ago
Pellom McDaniels III, curator of African American collections at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University in Atlanta, died on April 19 at his home in Decatur, Georgia. He was 52 years old. “The depth of our s...
- 11 months ago
The National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the awarding of more than $14 million in grants to 19 historically Black universities. The grants provide funds for scholarships for students in the fo...
- 11 months ago
A new report from the U.S. Department of Education and the Bureau of Justice Statistics offers a detailed look at crime on K-12 and college campuses. Among the statistics is information on hate crimes. In 2015, there were 860 hate crimes on college a...
- 11 months ago
The board of trustees of Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, has appointed Benjamin Ola. Akande as the ninth president of the educational institution. He will take office on July 1. Champlain College is a private liberal arts institution that e...
- 11 months ago
In April 2015, Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African American man was arrested and died in police custody from spinal cord injuries suffered while riding unrestrained in the back of a police van. Protests and civil unrest occurred in the city and the N...
- 11 months ago
Hansel Burley was appointed dean of the College of Education and Human Sciences at the University of New Mexico. He will take office on July 1. “I am excited about joining the UNM College of Education and Human Sciences family. I found faculty and st...
- 11 months ago
A study led by scientists at Harvard Medical School found far higher rates of depression among older Black adults than was the case for older non-Hispanic White adults. Researchers surveyed more than 25,000 adults over the age of 50. They found that...
- 11 months ago
The board of regents of Texas Southern Univerity in Houston has selected Kenneth Huewitt as the interim president of the university. He has been serving as acting president. In January of this year, Austin A. Lane, then president of Texas Southern Un...
- 11 months ago
Historically Black Morgan State University in Baltimore is keeping all options open for the fall semester and making appropriate contingency plans. After weeks of strategy sessions with his cabinet, David K. Wilson, president of Morgan State Universi...
- 11 months ago
Ismail White was appointed professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton Univerity in New Jersey. He joins the faculty this fall from Duke University, where he has been an associate professor since 2018. Previously, he taught at George Washin...
- 11 months ago
The department of health sciences in the College of Graduate and Professional Studies at South Carolina State Univerity, a historically Black educational institution in Orangeburg, has announced the addition of the Applied Exercise Science (AES) conc...
- 11 months ago
The board of trustees at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst voted unanimously to name the campus Fine Arts Center after Randolph Bromery. Dr. Bromery first came to the University of Massachusetts as a professor of geology in 1967. At the time...
