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Who Am I?

Summer has brought with it a perfect storm of controversies over “identity.” It began with Bruce Jenner, the iconic Olympian, really coming out as the transgendered and glammed-up Caitlyn on the cover of the July Issue of Vanity Fair. It will end with people still tweeting over Rachel Dolezal, the deposed NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Washington, who grew up a blond girl, attended and sued Howard University and maintains that she identifies as “black.”

July 22, 2015

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Race Out, Creativity In for Achieving Diversity Goals

A panel of current and former institutional leaders advised becoming more strategic about how to achieve racial and economic diversity on campus.

July 21, 2015

Leadership & Policy

In Case You Missed It…

Stakeholders Question Changes to FAMU-FSU Joint College of Engineering NAACP to March From Selma to Washington, D.C. ED Enforces Complaint System for Colleges and Universities Higher Ed Diversity Officers Bound for Cuba

July 16, 2015

African-American

Higher Ed Diversity Officers Bound for Cuba

A group of chief diversity officers and deans from U.S. colleges and universities are traveling to the Caribbean island nation this weekend for a weeklong educational trip.

July 9, 2015

African-American

Symbolic Gestures Distracting from Black Community’s Key Issues

Many times such nominal gestures wind up having insufficient funds when it’s time to cash them in. We cannot lose sight of the importance of substance.

July 6, 2015

African-American

University of California’s Fall 2015 Freshman Numbers Sound an Alarm

Has an exodus of Blacks from the state impacted higher education?

July 5, 2015

African-American

Getting Race and Poverty Right in Education

Several months ago, I was invited to conduct a professional development session in a school with a high proportion of students of color and those living below the poverty line

July 1, 2015

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Supreme Court to Rehear Affirmative Action Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided to rehear a landmark case that could mean the end of affirmative action in college admissions decisions.

June 29, 2015

African-American

Dolezal Was Asked if She Tried to Mislead Howard University

Rachel Dolezal, who has posed for years as a Black woman, faced tough questions about her racial identity long before her career as a civil rights advocate was derailed by this week’s revelations that she grew up “Caucasian.”

June 17, 2015

Leadership & Policy

Prosecutor Says Detention of Virginia Student was Justified

A prosecutor said Wednesday that he found no evidence of excessive force or racism by officers involved in the arrest of a University of Virginia student who was bloodied and pinned to the ground in an incident that drew widespread attention.

June 17, 2015

African-American

Rachel Dolezal and White Privilege

Virtually all segments of the media—liberal, conservative, alternative, mainstream—have been deeply immersed in the saga of Rachel Dolezal.

June 16, 2015

Opinion

Blaming Obama for the State of Race Relations Disingenuous at Best

Many Republican politicians, pundits and loyal GOP voters have targeted President Obama (and, in some cases, First Lady Michelle Obama) as the reason for the current state of race relations in our nation. As those in the land of rock-ribbed republicanism see it, our current commander in chief is the primary reason that the racial situation is less than desirable.

June 4, 2015