By Clyde McGrady Before stepping foot on Howard University’s campus, Skylar Wilson knew she would see more women there than men. But just how many more stunned her: Howard, one of the most elite historically Black colleges and universities in the nation,
By Pamela Hill, Ph.D Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have played a significant role in American history for well over a century. The list of notable HBCU alumni is long and includes the likes of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court Justice, and Kamala Harris, the first Black vice president of the United
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While the number of young people intending to vote in next year’s presidential election has fallen compared to four years prior, the decline among young Black voters is the one that is “most pronounced,” according to a new poll released Tuesday. The Harvard Youth Poll found stark differences in voting intentions among all young voters
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By Rochelle Ford, President of Dillard University It has been nearly one week since the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings to end affirmative action and cancel the student loan debt forgiveness program. The eerie symphony of 62 years of progress being undone has us still reeling across this country. Yet, the consistent light remains Historically Black Colleges and
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By Wayne Washington I’ll take my reparation payment in the form of Boone Hall Plantation, please. Boone Hall is a sprawling plantation located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Today, it offers tours so the curious can get a glimpse of what it was like during antebellum days when Black people were enslaved and white people
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By The Associated Press The National Urban League released its annual report on the State of Black America on Tuesday, and its findings are grim. This year’s Equality Index shows Black people still get only 73.9 percent of the American pie white people enjoy. While Black people have made economic and health gains, they’ve slipped
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By Jill Filipovic Even after the rise and resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the elections of a Black president and Vice President and several years of racial reckoning over state violence against Black men and women, if you want it’s still plain to see how far some parts of the US haven’t come
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By Nicquel Terry Ellis, Black borrowers say policymakers have ignored the racial and economic evidence of inequality in student loan debt with the majority insisting that canceling all student debt is the best solution to the crisis, according to a new report released Wednesday by The Education Trust. The report, which focuses on the perspectives and life experiences
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By Christina Carrega Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of White Americans, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project. The report found that one in 81 Black adults per 100,000 people in the United States is serving time in a state prison, using data and projections from
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By John Blake, At first, Clint Smith had trouble making out the objects beside a white picket fence in the distance. Then he drew closer; what he saw made him shudder. Planted in a garden bed in front of the fence were the heads of 55 Black men impaled on metal rods, their eyes shut
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Analysis by Ariane de Vogue, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died a year ago this week, had been well aware that the conservatives on the Supreme Court were poised to take a right turn in areas concerning reproductive health and voting rights. But the liberal icon would likely be stunned to see how far and how
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