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Tag: History
News Roundup
University of Delaware to Uncover Past Connections to Slavery and Racism
The University of Delaware, whose history dates back to 1743, will begin exploring its past connections to slavery and racism, reports WHYY. Since UD joined the Universities Studying Slavery consortium, a team of 21 students has been working to uncover past injustices tied to the school, such as when âBlack students who wanted to come [âŚ]
July 12, 2021
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Preserving the Past and Building the Future: Meet Historian Rhonda Gonzales
Dr. Rhonda Gonzales has one eye on the past and the other on the future. As a professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Texas, San Antonio (UTSA), Gonzales is passionate about sharing the diverse histories and cultures of societies in pre-colonial Africa for future generations. Meanwhile, as an administrator, she is also passionate about how we envision the future for first-generation students.
May 9, 2021
News Roundup
GW History Dept. to Dr. Jessica Krug: Resign
George Washington Universityâs Department of History has responded to the news that one its faculty members, Dr. Jessica Krug, lied about having an Afro-Caribbean identity throughout her entire career as an African and Latin American studies professor. She is a White woman. In a statement released Thursday, the department described itself as âshockedâ and âappalled,â [âŚ]
September 8, 2020
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George Floydâs Death Has Revived Renaming Efforts as Institutions Reckon With Legacies of Racism
Pervasive demands for social justice following the death of George Floyd in police custody have penetrated the halls of institutions throughout the country. In academia, dozens of high-profile universities have announced plans to rename campus buildings that bear the names of individuals associated with the countryâs racist history. And a similar reckoning has come to institutions that havenât claimed the media spotlight.
August 23, 2020
African-American
The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Revisited in âThe Sword and The Shieldâ
As the nation witnesses around-the-clock Black Lives Matter protests, Dr. Peniel E. Josephâs âThe Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.â could not have been published at a more apropos time.
July 6, 2020
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Following Petition, Georgia State Creates Center Dedicated to African Diaspora
Georgia State University â home to the largest student body of any higher ed institution in the state of Georgia â is creating a center dedicated to African diaspora and its people, reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC). The AJC notes that according to state data, approximately 40% of Georgia Stateâs students are Black. In [âŚ]
June 26, 2020
Opinion
At a Loss for Words After George Floyd: Three Actions in Lieu of Statements
Race is foundational to our nation, its original sin. We live in a racist society, so we all do racists things. Racism, moreover, is systemic. We can no more escape it than we can avoid breathing in polluted air.
June 16, 2020
Health
The Integrated Liberal Arts Approach: The Curricular Vaccine Higher Education Needs Now More Than Ever
Perhaps the COVID-19 pandemic that we are all battling on a global scale will serve as a great reminder that we need an integrated multidisciplinary lens to create better models, predictions, and policies to understand, prevent and contain the pandemic.
May 19, 2020
African-American
Two History Professors Chronicle the Lives of the First Black Scholars Hired at PWIs
Dr. David Canton, associate professor of history at Connecticut College, is working on a biography of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, which will focus on the mid-20th century when an increasing number of African Americans earned doctorates and entered the faculties at predominantly White colleges and universities (PWIs).
February 13, 2020
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Remembering Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke, the Man Behind the Harlem Renaissance
Dr. Alain LeRoy Locke, a longtime Howard University professor, art critic, Harvard-educated writer, first Black Rhodes Scholar, pioneering philosopher and complex race man gave expression to a movement he called âthe New Negro.â We know it as the Harlem Renaissance.
February 10, 2020
African-American
How Dr. Hasan Jeffries is Rethinking the Way We Teach Black History
As a teenager in 1980s Brooklyn, Dr. Hasan Jeffries tried piecing together two different stories: the history he was learning in school and the events he was witnessing on the train to and from school. But they didnât fit.
February 7, 2020
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2020 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Que-Lam Huynh
Studying issues of ethnic minority identity and marginalization comes naturally to Dr. Que-Lam Huynh, associate professor in the department of psychology at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She remembers what it felt like to be an 11-year-old refugee from Vietnam thrust into a new life.
January 29, 2020
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