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Professor publishes article on importance of HBCUs

Marybeth Gasman, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor chair and distinguished professor in the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, recently published an article that discusses the influence of the Supreme Court case “Brown v. Board of Education” on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and higher

HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA - APRIL 11: Palmdale resident Josiah Mokelu, 22, right, argues with a Huntington Beach resident who would not be identified, left, as protesters gather to demonstrate against a so-called White Lives Matter rally on Sunday, April 11, 2021 in Huntington Beach, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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New study reveals deep divide in how Americans view the nation’s progress toward racial equality

By Nicquel Terry Ellis The United States is deeply divided in how Americans view the nation’s progress toward racial equality and much of the division is reflected in the differing beliefs of people of color and White people, according to a new study released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. The study surveyed more than

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Tokyo 2020 Olympics - Athletics - Women's 4 x 400m Relay - Final - Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan - August 7, 2021. Sydney McLaughlin of the United States, Allyson Felix of the United States, Dalilah Muhammad of the United States and Athing Mu of the United States hold the flag of the United States and celebrate after winning gold REUTERS/Hannah Mckay
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Women athletes powered Team USA’s Olympic victory

 by Amy Bass In June of 2013, Tokyo’s bid to host the Olympic Games in 2020 ranked first in the International Olympic Committee’s technical assessment, something that went a long way a few months later when it emerged victorious as the “safe pair of hands” the IOC was looking for in a host city. What that

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Close-up of American Civil Rights activist Robert Parris Moses, New York, 1964. (Photo by Robert Elfstrom/Villon Films/Gety Images)

Remembering the most important civil rights hero most Americans have never heard of

 by Peniel E. Joseph Robert Parris Moses, who passed away this week at the age of 86, is the most important civil rights activist most Americans have never heard of. He died on what would have been the 80th birthday of Emmett Till, the Black boy lynched in 1955 whose open-casket funeral put the violence that defined

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A demonstrator holds her hands up while she kneels in front of the Police at the Anaheim City Hall on June 1, 2020 in Anaheim, California, during a peaceful protest over the death of George Floyd. - Major US cities -- convulsed by protests, clashes with police and looting since the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd a week ago -- braced Monday for another night of unrest. More than 40 cities have imposed curfews after consecutive nights of tension that included looting and the trashing of parked cars. (Photo by Apu GOMES / AFP) (Photo by APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images)
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Black Americans are battling ‘three pandemics,’ new report finds

By Nicquel Terry Ellis Higher unemployment rates, lower household incomes and lack of access to health care left Black Americans more vulnerable to the Covid-19 pandemic and there is an urgency to address these structural inequities, according to a new report on the state of Black America released Thursday by the National Urban League. The

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What 2021 is showing us about Black lives mattering

 by Richard J. Reddick More than a year after the pivotal moment where millions of Americans witnessed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of those charged with the responsibility to serve and protect — and about two weeks after the salutary news that his killer would pay with a 22.5 year prison sentence

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We’re beginning to see the real Kamala Harris

Opinion by Roxanne Jones A few weeks ago, a meeting was not going well. My business partner had just shut down a room of wealthy, powerful White men. No easy feat. “That is not what I do,” she said to a client. “You need to go sit down with that question.” In other words, do

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 18: A statue of Joseph Wheeler (2nd R)), a cavalry general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War and member of the House of Representatives, stands on a pedestal outside the office door of House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) in Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol June 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has requested that Congress remove this statue and 10 others of Confederate soldiers and officials from the U.S. Capitol "The statues in the Capitol should embody our highest ideals as Americans, expressing who we are and who we aspire to be as a nation. Monuments to men who advocated cruelty and barbarism to achieve such a plainly racist end are a grotesque affront to these ideals. Their statues pay homage to hate, not heritage. They must be removed," Pelosi wrote in the letter addressed to committee Chair Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Vice Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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The House takes a revealing vote on Confederate statues

 by Nicole Hemmer During the insurrection in January, a rioter hoisted a Confederate flag over his shoulder, letting it furl out behind him as he marched through the Capitol. It was an outrageous sight: not even during the Civil War had insurrectionists breached the halls of Congress with the battle flag. Yet there it was, flapping alongside

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This late civil rights icon’s imprint is everywhere today

Opinion by Peniel E. Joseph The man best known for popularizing the term “Black power” always answered the phone with the words, “ready for revolution.” Stokely Carmichael answered the phone this way to acknowledge his role in sacred efforts to build a new society in America and around the world. He defined revolution as transforming the status

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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 19: Protester chant near the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. statue during a Juneteenth celebration on June 19, 2020 in New York City. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when a Union general read orders in Galveston, Texas stating all enslaved people in Texas were free according to federal law. (Photo by Michael Noble Jr./Getty Images)
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Juneteenth’s path to becoming a federal holiday was a long time coming

By Harmeet Kaur For much of US history, Juneteenth has been a date observed mostly by Black Americans commemorating the symbolic end of slavery. Since the reckoning reignited by the killing of George Floyd last year, though, the tide has changed enormously. All but one state, as well as the District of Columbia, recognize the milestone of

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