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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 […]

Housing Discrimination Complaints Reach 24-Year High, While HUD Rolls Back Fair Housing Rules | The Washington Informer

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019African American Commuities, African American Politics

As a candidate, President Donald Trump promised that if elected, deregulation of the federal government would be an administration priority. Soon after taking the oath of office, he issued an executive order requiring all departments and agencies to eliminate two existing regulations for every one new regulation proposed. In some cases, rules that were adopted […]

Collector Ronald Ollie to discuss major gift to SLAM and related exhibition | The St. Louis American

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019African American Art

“We have five generations of abstract artists represented in this exhibition,” said Alexis Assam, 2018-2019 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow and co-curator of “The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection” just ahead of the exhibition’s opening at Saint Louis Art Museum back in September. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A tour led by Assam and exhibition […]

I was called the N-word during my playing career. I was lucky someone else heard it | The Guardian

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019African American Athletes

Myles Garrett’s claim that a racial slur prompted his outburst brings back an ugly memory from my career. But as I learned, his fate is out of his hands unless someone backs him up

Will Hurd Picks a Side | The Atlantic

November 24, 2019November 24, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

If Democrats can’t persuade a moderate Republican like him to vote to impeach President Trump, they’re unlikely to win over any Republicans at all.

Azellia White, trailblazer for African American women in aviation, dies at 106 | The Washington Post

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019African American History

Azellia White, who said she found freedom in the skies, becoming one of the first African American women to earn a pilot’s license in the United States, died Sept. 14 at a nursing home in Sugar Land, Tex. She was 106. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Her death was reported Nov. 18 in the London Daily Telegraph but […]

‘Soul of a Nation’ Gives Black Artists Long-Overdue Visibility | SF Weekly

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019African American Art, Black Art

A new exhibit at the de Young on loan from the Tate Modern showcases decades of Black American art.

Diddy releases statement regarding Comcast, and Byron Allen’s discrimination lawsuit against the media company | Revolt

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

REVOLT Media & TV’s chairman speaks out.

Nas Becomes ‘The Voice of Hennessy’ to Empower HBCU Students | Black Enterprise

November 22, 2019March 30, 2020HBCU, Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Legendary hip-hop artist Nasir “Nas” Jones has teamed up with Hennessy and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to uplift graduate students of color attending historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The Queens-born rapper can be heard narrating a video promoting the Hennessy Fellows Program, a $10 million graduate scholarship initiative launched earlier this year […]

What’s Lost When Black Children Are Socialized Into a White World | The Atlantic

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019KOLUMN Magazine

I interviewed dozens of black mothers about how they help their kids navigate schools where they might be perceived as threats or made to feel unwelcome.