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Virginians push to remember historically black high schools | The Washington Post

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020African American Education, African American History ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Vivian Monroe-Hester’s high school textbooks harbored hatred in their margins. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] As a teenager at the all-black Booker T. Washington High School in segregated, 1960s-era Virginia, Monroe-Hester studied from used books passed along by white high schools. White students, knowing the texts’ final destination, scrawled their animus atop pictures, beneath paragraphs, […]

How Many Black Male Teachers Did You Have Growing Up? | Black Enterprise

December 31, 2019December 31, 2019African American Education, Black Fathers

Vincent Cobb II and Rashiid Coleman are the founders behind The Black Male Educators Convening, an organization on a mission to triple the number of highly-effective black male teachers in Philadelphia public schools to 1,000 by 2025. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Through a series of programs including a yearly conference, purpose career fair, two-year paid summer program, […]

Black students at Oxford University to get scholarships from black American tech entrepreneur | USA Today

December 13, 2019December 14, 2019African American Education

SAN FRANCISCO — Technology investor and entrepreneur Arlan Hamilton is funding a new scholarship for black undergraduate students at Oxford University, a first for the educational institution. The scholarship, partly named for Hamilton’s mother, will cover fees and living costs for one undergraduate student a year for three years beginning in 2020. The value of […]

Op-ed: Black male teachers have positive influence on students of all races | The State

December 5, 2019December 12, 2019African American Education

I was wasting time on Twitter when I came across a post that stopped me mid-scroll. The original post posed a question: How many black male educators did you have in kindergarten through 12th grade. One of my former students chimed in with a shocking number: 1…Coach Thorne. That’s me; that’s who I was. I […]

Impact and not optics: How we can increase the number of African Americans in medicine | The St. Louis American

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019African American Education, HBCU ...

I am the lead author of a peer-reviewed manuscript that details how U.S. medical school diversity initiatives are leaving us behind. This is a summary of the article, which was published in Academic Medicine, and a call to action to improve our representation and the health of our communities. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] U.S. medical education diversity […]

History and African American studies faculty receive three-year UC-HBCU Pathways Grant | UCI News

November 20, 2019November 23, 2019African American Education, HBCU

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 […]

The New Director of Stanford’s Institute For Diversity In The Arts On How Art Breeds Social Change | Forbes

November 18, 2019November 18, 2019African American Education, African American Professionals

A-lan Holt’s job is to help young people understand the immense power of art. In her new role as the Director of Stanford’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA), she helps train undergraduates in how to use art as a tool for organizing and for bringing about social change. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] “For us, the […]

Rediscovering “The Hampton Album,” a Renowned Record of African-American History After the Civil War | Feature Shoot

October 31, 2019December 13, 2019African American Education, African American History ...

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 […]

Too Many Black Students Aren’t Learning Their History in Schools | Education Post

September 30, 2019July 26, 2020African American Education, HBCU ...

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, […]

What the Right Doesn’t Understand About Black Colleges | The Atlantic

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019African American Education, HBCU ...

Historically African American institutions serve a vital purpose, and it’s not segregationist to urge black athletes to attend them.