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Being Black, Male and Educated in Today's World

by Dr. James Ewers, August 21, 2008

There are far too many black males being portrayed as useless citizens in our society.  We see pictures of us being sent to jail or being expelled from school.  Some of us still turn a blind eye to what is going on around us.  The CNN Special, “Black in America”

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Apologies Abound and CNN’s Black in America: The Inescapable Nexus

by Dr. Pamela D. Reed, August 14, 2008

On July 28, in the year 2008, the United States House of Representatives, almost 150 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, passed H. Res. 194, offering a formal apology for the centuries-long, government-sanctioned enslavement of African Americans and for the generations of Jim Crow segregation and for the institutionalized discrimination that

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“But professor? You’re not white, you’re German, right?”

by Dr. Emery Petchauer, August 11, 2008

As a proverbial “vanilla brother” (as my Dean affectionately refers to me) at an HBCU, on the daily I am in a position to experience and explore racial identity and its implications on classroom pedagogy. This applies to my own racial identity, that of my students, and how we co-construct

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In the World of HBCUs, Research Must Inform Practice

by Dr. Marybeth Gasman, August 6, 2008

Quite often students and others ask me why I do research -- What's the purpose?  Does it make change?  Am I doing research to fill journals and books that very few people read?  The answer for me and most of my faculty colleagues is "No"!  Most of us became faculty

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CNN’s Black in America Sounds Clarion Call To Do More

by Dr. James Ewers, July 29, 2008

I am black in America so the recent two-part series produced by CNN entitled “Black in America” did appeal to me. This special program to my mind was not only for black people but for white people as well. For whatever judgment you rendered about the series let us give

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