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African-American

Special Focus: HBCUs

This issue of Diverse includes a special focus on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s).

August 14, 2014

Faculty & Staff

‘Authentic’ Blackness Debate Continues

The fact is that most of us who are Black, regardless of socioeconomic status or educational level, will be confronted with the reality that our skin color will render us vulnerable to the fact that we are the “other” in the eyes of some Whites and some other non-Blacks.

August 7, 2014

African-American

Rethinking President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative

The initiative lacks components that would aggressively respond to the pervasiveness of institutional and structural racism that yet persists in America.

July 28, 2014

African-American

Hill Leaving Columbia University for Morehouse College Professorship

The move signals a new effort by Morehouse to aggressively compete with predominantly White institutions for young Black superstar professors.

July 23, 2014

African-American

President Obama Touts Expansion of Program for Minority Boys

Obama announced a major expansion of his initiative to improve the lives of boys and young men of color, with educators, star athletes, companies and foundations announcing partnerships to help minority boys in conjunction with his My Brother’s Keeper program.

July 21, 2014

Students

Report: Lack of Loan Access Has Nearly 1M Community College Students at Risk

A new report says nearly 1 million community college students — including many students of color — face added educational and financial challenges because their colleges choose not to participate in federal student loan programs.

July 14, 2014

Leadership & Policy

College Presidents Returning to Classroom

Experts say that, over the past decade, the number of college presidents enrolling into doctoral programs has steadily increased.

July 14, 2014

Students

Report: Blacks Need Additional Schooling to Have Equal Employment Chances as Lesser Educated Whites

While young Black adults at all education levels experience higher unemployment rates than others, such employment gaps diminish considerably as Black educational attainment increases, a new study says.

July 13, 2014

African-American

Black Women Increasingly Becoming Victims of Brutal Violence

While many people have expressed their outrage at such injustices, there have been those who have resorted to a “they must have done something to deserve it” stance.

July 10, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Arizona State Professor Ersula Ore Pleads to Resisting Arrest

MESA, Ariz. ― An Arizona State University professor who accused campus police of excessive force when they arrested her agreed to a plea deal Wednesday. Ersula Ore pleaded guilty in Maricopa County Superior Court in Mesa to one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest. In exchange, three other charges, including a felony count of aggravated assault, […]

July 10, 2014

African-American

HistoryMakers Collection Finds Home at Library of Congress

Kenneth E. Reeves, facing front, discusses his trailblazing role as a student at Harvard College and later as the first African-American mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo Courtesy of The HistoryMakers Collection at the Library of Congress)

July 8, 2014

Students

Fierce Feminist Tanisha Ford Brings Style to Her Scholarship

The University of Massachusetts Amherst assistant professor is strictly 21st century in her approach to writing and teaching about the lives of Black women in the U.S., Britain and the African diaspora.

July 6, 2014