Category : Education

We Must Protect This House:  Guarding Black Women College Athletes

by Jewel Clark and Rachel Wilson Patterson Angel Reese For decades, Black women athletes have been subjected to the harsh and at times unforgiving gaze of White America. Our physical bodies, athleticism, energy, enthusiasm, and success are frequently...

College Board Once Again Making Revisions to Advanced Placement Course on Black Studies

In the fall of 2022, The College Board offered an Advanced Placement course in African American studies for the first time. The course was offered in 60 high schools throughout the United States. Now 800 schools are planning to offer the course. In a...

The First African American to Deliver the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford

Willie James Jennings an associate professor of systematic theology at Yale Divinity School, has been selected to deliver the Bampton Lectures for 2023 at the University of Oxford in England. He is the first African American selected to give these le...

New ACE Report Presents Data on College Presidents Who Are Black

A new report from the American Council on Education finds that the college presidency remains older, White, and male. The report found that in 2022, 77.2 percent of college and university presidents were White. Blacks or African Americans were 13.6 p...

Vann R. Newkirk Selected as the Next President of Wilberforce University in Ohio

Vann R. Newkirk was named the 23rd president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. He will take office in July. “I am honored and excited to be joining the Wilberforce University community,” Dr. Newkirk said. “As an HBCU graduate, I also understand the...

Racial Disparities in Working From Home Before and After the Pandemic

The number of home-based workers increased across all races and ethnic groups — especially among high-income workers — between 2019 and 2021, a time when working from home was encouraged because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A U.S. Census Bureau report s...

Racist Images Still Persist in Anthropology and Medical Texts and in Museums

Racist and sexist depictions of human evolution still permeate a broad range of cultural materials in popular media, education, and science, according to a new study led by Rui Diogo, an associate professor in the College of Medicine and Fatimah...

Racist Images Still Persists in Anthropology and Medical Texts and in Museums

Marshall Fulbright III Named President of the Monterey Peninsula Community College

Marshall Fulbright III was appointed superintendent and president of the Monterey Peninsula Community College District in California. Monterey Peninsula Community College enrolls just over 6,800 students, according to the most recent data from the U....

A Change in Leadership at Alcorn State University in Mississippi

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning in Mississippi announced that Felecia Nave, who served as the 20th president of Alcorn State University since 2019, was no longer leading the educational institution. No reason was given...

“Hate Comes Tumbloing Down:” Morgan State Demolishes the Spite Wall

In 1917, what is now Morgan State University purchased land to build a new campus in the Lauraville neighborhood of Baltimore. The surrounding neighborhood was predominantly White. As the campus expanded, in the early 1940s White residents built a br...

A Trio of Black Scholars in New Faculty Positions

William T. Brooks has been named the director of bands and an assistant professor of music at Albany State University in Georgia. He was the assistant director of bands and an assistant professor of music at Kentucky State University. A native of Det...

Two HBCUs Join With Georgetown University to Combat Enviromental Injustice

Researchers at historically Black Howard University in Washington, D.C., historically Black Morgan State University in Baltimore, and the Georgetown University School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute are partnering to develop the Environment...

Four African Americans Who Have Been Named to University Administrative Positions

Elfred Anthony Pinkard, a longtime educator with decades of leadership experience at historically Black colleges and universities, has been named Brown University’s first-ever HBCU presidential fellow, effective July 1. In this role, he will lead an...

Alabama State University Partners With South University for Pharmacy Diversity

Historically Black Alabama State University has entered into an agreement with South University in Savannah, Georgia, that will provide a seamless avenue for Alabama State University students to study and receive a doctoral degree in pharmacy from So...