Tag: National Park Service

African-American

$14 Million Grant for Various Colleges, Institutions to Preserve Civil Rights History

A number of institutions, including colleges, have received varying portions of a $14 million grant awarded by the National Park Service to preserve African American civil rights. The funds are awarded through the African American Civil Rights Historic Preservation Fund. The recipient colleges are Allen University, Benedict College, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College, Morris […]

April 13, 2020

Opinion

Our Shared History

People are ignorant of history, even their own.

October 24, 2019

HBCUs

Morris Brown College Receives $500,000 Grant From Park Service

The National Park Service has granted $500,000 to Morris Brown College, a historically Black college located in Atlanta. The grant is part of a $12 million initiative by the Park Service to fund projects across 17 states to preserve and convey stories focused on the Black struggle for equality. Morris Brown will use the money […]

September 16, 2019

HBCUs

National Park Service Awards $8.6M to HBCUs for Preservation Projects

The National Park Service (NPS) recently awarded grants to 18 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) totaling $8.6 million for projects to preserve historic structures on the institutions’ campuses.

September 10, 2018

Home

Morgan State Students Participate in Historical Restoration Program

Throughout the course of the summer, six Morgan State University architecture students will participate in a new pilot program as part of an initiative to encourage more young African-Americans to enter the architectural and historical preservation field.

July 18, 2018

Native Americans

University Fined for Violating Indian Remains Law

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A university in West Virginia has been fined $4,999 for failing to complete inventories of American Indian remains and artifacts in its possession. The U.S. Department of the Interior notified Marshall University President Jerome Gilbert of the fine in a letter this week. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, […]

May 6, 2018

African-American

Tuskegee’s New African-American Studies Minor Crosses Disciplinary Lines

Tuskegee University will introduce an African-American studies minor this fall.

January 17, 2018

Asian American Pacific Islander

Cal State Campuses Preserving Painful Piece of U.S. History

The archives of 15 California State University campuses are collaborating to digitize about 10,000 documents and 100-plus oral histories connected to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

July 5, 2015