And last, but certainly not least, veteran journalist Reginald Stuart chronicles in great detail the beginnings and now the end of Tennessee’s higher education desegregation case in “The End of a Journey.” Rita Sanders Geier filed the lawsuit almost 40 years ago, when she was a young law student and part-time instructor at historically Black Tennessee State University. This has been the nation’s longest-running lawsuit over the desegregation of a state system of higher education.
In addition to our features, this edition is full of news articles that we hope you’ll find interesting, including an interview with the new dean of Florida A&M University’s esteemed business school, Dr. Lydia A. McKinley-Floyd, a tribute to Earl Hayes and “Enrolling In Hip-Hop 101.”
As always, we welcome your feedback. Please e-mail me at editor@cmapublishing.com.
Hilary Hurd Anyaso
Editor
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