Jessica Millward, UCI associate professor of history, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, UCI associate professor of African American studies, have received a three-year, $271,902 UC-HBCU Pathways Grant to partner with Morgan State University, a public and historically black research university in Baltimore. Administered by the UC Office of the President, the grants encourage UC faculty to actively […]
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Is ‘Diversity’ Destroying The HBCUs? | Forbes
A new research brief from the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at Rutgers University asserts, “It can be argued that historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are experiencing a renaissance in terms of their enrollment of black students.” I found this startling, since for years HBCU enrollments have trended downward. Moreover, overall enrollments are in […]
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Rediscovering “The Hampton Album,” a Renowned Record of African-American History After the Civil War | Feature Shoot
Credited as the first female photojournalist in the United States, Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) received a commission in 1899 to photograph the Hampton Institute, a private historically Black university located in Hampton, Virginia. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Founded in 1868, just four years after the Civil War, the Hampton Institute was dedicated to the education of African-American […]
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Too Many Black Students Aren’t Learning Their History in Schools | Education Post
By ShaRhonda Knott-Dawson, Education Post When I was in school, I was starved for information about who I really am. I ached to hear stories about people who look like me, or see the names of Black scholars in math or science, or even to talk about Africa, without talking about poverty and slavery. Today, […]
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The Changing Image of the Black in Children’s Literature | The Horn Book, Inc.
By Augusta Baker, The Horn Book, Inc. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, children’s books seemed to foster prejudice by planting false images in the minds of children. Most authors were white, with little knowledge about black life, and yet they wrote as if they were authorities. No wonder it was an accepted fact in children’s […]
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What the Right Doesn’t Understand About Black Colleges | The Atlantic
Historically African American institutions serve a vital purpose, and it’s not segregationist to urge black athletes to attend them.
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How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery |Vox
Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.
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The Surprising Path That Some Kids Take to the Ivy League | The New York Times
Meet the resilient strivers who prove that brilliance has no borders.
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Their ancestors were enslaved by law. Today, they are graduates of the nation’s preeminent historically black law school. | The New York Times Magazine
— Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine In the history of the United States, black Americans were the only group for whom it was ever illegal to learn to read or write. And so when emancipation finally came, schools and colleges were some of the first institutions that the freed people clamored to build. Black […]
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Report: Warriors’ Stephen Curry Starting Golf Team at Howard University | Bleacher Report
TYLER CONWAY, Bleacher Report Jonathan Devich/Getty Images. Featured Image [dropcap]Stephen[/dropcap] Curry has already taken his love of golf to television. Now he’s doing the same at Howard University. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The Golden State Warriors star will reportedly launch a golf program at Howard during a press conference Monday, per Casey Bannon of The Golfer’s Journal. […]
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