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How to Excel at Elite Institutions: A Guide for Students of Color

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, February 28, 2012

Note: This post was co-authored by Ufuoma Abiola, a graduate student in the Higher Education program at the University of Pennsylvania. Elite research institutions with myriad resources can be wonderful places to gain an education; they also can be daunting for a student unfamiliar with the surroundings. We offer the following

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‘The Help’: Let Them Eat Pie

by Dr. Robin Lee Hughes, February 27, 2012

My mother and I swore that we would never watch the “blockbuster” movie sensation “The Help.” My reasoning, quite frankly, had to do with my own  rejection of yet another movie that portrays Blacks as a deficit, culturally “capital-less” group that needs to be “empowered,” saved, and are rescued by

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The Complex Simplicity of Black Male Success in College

by Dr. Ibram Rogers, February 26, 2012

The Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania recently released its inaugural publication. Titled “Black Male Student Success in Higher Education: A Report from the National Black Male College Achievement Study,” researchers, led by the center’s director, Dr. Shaun R. Harper, have

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Bereft - Whitney Elizabeth Houston, Shared Loss, and Full Circles

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, February 26, 2012

I love Whitney Houston.  It seems like yesterday when I first heard her spine-tingling rendition of “I Will Always Love You.” I was in Bellevue, Wash., in my little used, red Mazda 626, headed to the old Group Health Credit Union. The year was 1992.  As I waited at a stoplight, the

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On Roland Martin – Twitter is Not Your Friend

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, February 14, 2012

I last wrote about a CNN personality and perceived homophobia in my article, “Don Lemon’s Assumption on Black Women Challenged.”  Lemon had alleged in his memoir that Black women are the primary source of prejudice against gay Black men. Ironically, it is now Lemon’s African-American male colleague Roland Martin who now

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