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Study: Black and Latino Students Often Left out of Advanced Coursework

Whether it’s lack of resources or lack of opportunity, a study from The Education Trust finds that Black and Latino students across the country are being denied valuable educational opportunities.

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Wake Forest University Confronts Slavery Past Through New Project

Over the past three years, Wake Forest University has focused on uncovering their connection and history with slavery through several initiatives.In addition to joining the Universities Studying Slavery (USS) consortium, Wake Forest launched the Slavery, Race and Memory project last spring. The project consists of a lecture series and offers professors course enhancement grants.

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Dr. Billy C. Hawkins Revives Ailing HBCU Amid Cheers and Controversy

As president of Talladega College, Dr. Billy C. Hawkins is known as a turnaround expert among higher education leaders. Now, as chair of the 37 presidents of United Negro College Fund (UNCF) institutions, Hawkins is sharing his turnaround skills with others.

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Study on Black Youth and Racism Should Alarm Us All and Push Us to Action

On the last day of 2019, I had to purge and get my thoughts out by writing on what is the most troubling study I’ve read on Black youth and racism in quite a while.  It has nagged me for over a week, but I could not find the words to express or capture my deep-to-the-heart rage.

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Princeton University to Display Portraits of Campus Workers

Portraits depicting campus workers will be displayed on Princeton University’s campus in order to represent the working class and highlight racial struggle, according to CNN. The artist Mario Moore painted 10 workers at Princeton including those working in campus dining, grounds maintenance, security and facilities. With his subjects being mostly African-Americans, Moore was inspired by […]

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Funding and Investment in HBCUs, a Focus of Discussion on Capitol Hill

During the 2020 fiscal year, there will be a 15% increase devoted to strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities and minority-serving institutions (MSIs). Additionally, the maximum Pell grant award will increase by $150 from $6,195 to $6,345 for the 2020-21 academic year, according to the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations.

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How Should Asian Americans Respond to Asian Racism?

Asian racism is an especially touchy subject for Asian Americans. For every effort to denounce the attitudes overseas comes the inevitable backlash of “Who are you to judge us?”

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Rice University Announces First African American Provost

Rice University recently promoted its dean of engineering, Dr. Reginald DesRoches, to the position of provost. DesRoches will be the university’s first African-American provost, a historic moment for the Texas campus, which didn’t enroll Black undergraduates until 1965, the Houston Chronicle reported. As dean, DesRoches opened the Center for Transforming Data to Knowledge, which gives […]

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The Dangers of Interjecting White Narratives in Higher Education Hiring

I come before you today with a new lesson. That lesson is recognizing the dangers of interjecting whiteness into hiring processes.

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UNCF Celebrates as FUTURE Act Awaits Trump’s Signature

The latest version of the FUTURE Act, a bipartisan compromise on funding for minority serving institutions, now awaits the signature of President Trump, having been passed by the House and Senate yesterday, hours after a United Negro College Fund press conference touted the bill’s merits.

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FAMU Professor Serves as Model for Rosa Parks Sculpture

Dr. Kimberly Brown Pellum, a Florida A&M University history professor,  served as the model for a Rosa Parks sculpture recently unveiled in Montgomery, Alabama. The sculpture commemorates the 64th anniversary of the day police arrested Parks for refusing to give up her bus seat, then igniting the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott. The sculptor had asked […]

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Stop Using Asian Americans to Defend Against Disparities, Then Rejecting Them as Non-Diverse

Asian Americans are ambiguous in civil rights. Perhaps Asian Americans themselves are ambivalent as well. Neither Black nor White, Asian Americans challenge the standard understanding of racial justice. Whether they are integrating into the majority or if they will be “people of color,” 　they should have autonomy and not be used to advance the ulterior motives of others who may not have their best interests at heart.

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