For the first time in recent history, Harvard University Black students (including those with African, African-American, Afro European, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-South American ancestry) will host their own, individual commencement ceremony, officials said.
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Trump suggests financing for historically black colleges may be unconstitutional – Politico
President Donald Trump signaled Friday that he may not implement a 25-year-old federal program that helps historically black colleges finance construction projects on their campuses, suggesting that it may run afoul of the Constitution.
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How Does Race Affect a Student’s Math Education? – The Atlantic
A new paper examines the ways “whiteness” reproduces racial advantages and disadvantages.
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Beyoncé Announces a Scholarship Program for Female College Students to Mark Lemonade’s One-Year Anniversary – Slate
Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album Lemonade has brought the star no shortage of accolades, including two Grammys and a Peabody, and now the queen is ready to give back.
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Teaching Black Power at an HBCU and the Journey to Undo the Miseducation – Atlanta Black Star
This semester, at a historically Black college, I taught a course on African liberation movements that, in part, examined how such activism in Africa influenced Black Power across the globe.
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Having Just One Black Teacher Can Keep Black Kids In School – NPR
How important is it to have a role model? A new working paper puts some numbers to that question.
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11-Year-Old Turns His Love of Reading Into a Book Club to Inspire Other Black Boys to Love It, Too – Atlanta Black Star
Avid reader Sidney Keys III was excited to find a St. Louis bookstore filled with positive stories about Black youths, but he didn’t have anyone his age to discuss them with, so he decided to create Books N Bros book club.
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Was the Desegregation of Schools Really the Best Thing for ‘Underserved’ Black Children? – Atlanta Black Star
For more than 60 years, the advertised solution to apartheid academics is to place Black and white pupils in the same school. The pursuit of diverse classrooms accepts that entirely Black schools are inherently and irreversibly defective.
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Campus Backlash After Leaders of Black Colleges Meet With Trump – The New York Times
It was a scalding message, painted on a university campus sidewalk this week: “Welcome to the Trump plantation. Overseer: Wayne A. I. Frederick.”
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HBCUs maintain funding they already had in Trump’s proposed budget – The Philadelphia Tribune
President Donald Trump released his 2018 budget for America on Thursday, and HBCUs will maintain the level of funding they have been given before — in the amount of $492 million.
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