Would you take a job, in any industry, that requires you to run a multi-million dollar company with hundreds of underpaid employees, thousands of clients who can’t afford your product […]
Who Wants to Be an HBCU President?
Would you take a job, in any industry, that requires you to run a multi-million dollar company with hundreds of underpaid employees, thousands of clients who can’t afford your product […]
Beyond Fish Plates and Tailgates: Steering HBCU Fundraising from Fanaticism to Support
As Director of Athletics at an HBCU who oversaw fundraising efforts for the department, I learned many important lessons about HBCU fundraising culture. Perhaps none is more important than this: […]
American Policing: A National Security Issue for People of Color
Twenty years ago Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb outside of an Oklahoma City federal building, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more. In June 2001, McVeigh was put to death […]
FAMU Law: Remixing the Recurring Struggle for Equality
Even drama can’t reverse FAMU’s legacy or its law school’s against-the-odds narrative. Ten years ago the first graduates of the re-established law school received their doctoral hoods. This spring’s graduates became the 11th college of law class. FAMU Law’s alumni base exceeds 1,000 people. In the past five years, FAMU graduated more African American lawyers than every other law school in Florida combined.
On Leadership Oversight, Mississippi IHL Toes Dangerous Line of Racism
In 2012, then-Alcorn State University President M. Christopher Brown II received a unanimous four-year contract extension from the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. The extension followed two years of enrollment […]
Connecting HBCUs with Cuba Makes Sense for Dollars, the Diaspora and Dissent
As college attendance and graduation become more societal expectation than elitist marker, HBCUs must keep recruitment and retention options open. One place where international interests can converge? Cuba. Cuba’s proximity, […]
Ferguson, HBCUs and the Post-Racialism That Never Was
We need to contribute how we can. We need to support organizers, our foot soldiers. We need to teach our history. Admittedly, this means continued funding of higher education and especially HBCUs, whose unique missions and histories equip us to address racial injustice.
Amid National Racial Strife, HBCUs Are Modeling, Fighting for Diversity
Should we wait for all black people, specifically those with no desire and no ties to black colleges, to have a change of heart on our institutions? Or do we take those students, faculty, staff and donors willing to come into HBCU communities in the way that predominantly white and for-profit schools have seemingly embraced our people as students and employees in increasing number?
Office of Civil Rights Action on FAMU is Glimpse of Hope for National HBCU Advocacy
The wave of discontent against inequality among races is too high, and even with a national change in political ideology, there is not enough sound to drown out people worldwide wanting an immediate end to discrimination within American borders.
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