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The Moral Force of the Black University

A 1968 student uprising at the Tuskegee Institute married practical demands with political vision.
by Brian Jones via The Chronicle of Higher Education on November 3, 2022
Alcorn State University's Origional Golden Girls.

Sass And Shimmer: The Dazzling History Of Black Majorettes And Dance Lines

Beginning in the 1960s, young Black majorettes and dance troupes created a fascinating culture. This is the story of how they did it.
by Alecia Taylor, Brooklyn White via Essence on October 10, 2022
Photograph of building at Virginia Union University
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A Formerly Enslaved Woman Helped Found a Key American University

Mary Lumpkin’s life helps us to better understand the post-Civil War push for education.
by Kristen Green via Made By History on May 10, 2022

The Role of HBCUs and the Black Press in the Rise of the American Tennis Association

Historically black colleges and universities hosted all but six ATA tournaments from 1927 to 1968.
by Rhiannon Walker via Andscape on August 4, 2017
Ernst Borinski

Many Jewish Refugee Professors Found Homes at Historically Black Colleges

And they were shocked by race relations in the South.
by Heather Gilligan via Timeline on March 9, 2017

The GOP’s Long History With Black Colleges

Could President Trump actually win over the leaders of historically black colleges and universities?
by Leah Wright Rigueur, Theodore R. Johnson III via Politico Magazine on February 27, 2017
The Fisk Jubilee Singers.

How the Negro Spiritual Changed American Popular Music—And America Itself

In 1871, the Fisk University singers embarked on a tour that introduced white Americans to a Black sound that would reshape the nation.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on November 13, 2023
Supreme Court building.

The Untold History of Affirmative Action — For White People

To remain exclusively white after Brown v. Board of education, universities created scholarships to send qualified Black students to out-of-state HBCUs instead.
by Leslie T. Fenwick, Valerie Strauss, H. Patrick Swygert via Washington Post on July 18, 2023
Anti-Apartheid Rally, June 14, 1986, New York City.

Coke Money and Apartheid Divestment in U.S. Higher Education

US corporations, with universities as one of their stages, masqueraded as agents of Black solidarity while undermining the demands of African liberation movements.
by Amanda Joyce Hall via Black Perspectives on May 10, 2023
Black college students at Morgan State University, 1955.

No, the GI Bill Did Not Make Racial Inequality Worse

Popular narratives say that black veterans got no real benefits from the GI Bill. In truth, the GI Bill provided a rare positive experience with government.
by Paul Prescod via Jacobin on April 1, 2023
African-American man holding a medical bag, posing behind horse-drawn carriage.

Doctors Without Borders

On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.
by Deirdre Mask via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 7, 2022
Illustration of the shadow of Mary Lumpkin over the blueprint of Virginia Union University

The Enslaved Woman Who Liberated a Slave Jail and Transformed It Into an HBCU

Forced to bear her enslaver's children, Mary Lumpkin later forged her own path to freedom.
by Kristen Green via Smithsonian on April 4, 2022
Black and white photo of Howard Fuller outside Malcolm X Liberation University

The Lost Promise of Black Study

Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.
by Andrew J. Douglas, Jared Loggins via Boston Review on September 24, 2021
Students in classroom

Which is Better: School Integration or Separate, Black-Controlled Schools?

Historical perspective on school integration.
by Zoë Burkholder via OUPblog on August 11, 2021
A scrapbook of African American history

A Priceless Archive of Ordinary Life

To preserve Black history, a 19th-century archivist filled hundreds of scrapbooks with newspaper clippings and other materials.
by Cynthia R. Greenlee via The Atlantic on February 9, 2021
A microphone surrounded by multiple pairs of eyes against a brick background.

Cut Me Loose

A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.
by Joshunda Sanders via Oxford American on November 19, 2019

Remember the Orangeburg Massacre

The February 1968 killing of three student protesters in Orangeburg, SC marked a turning point in the black freedom struggle.
by Robert Greene II via Dissent on February 7, 2018

In 1968, Three Students Were Killed by Police. Today, Few Remember the Orangeburg Massacre

The shootings occurred two years before the deaths at Kent State University, but remain a little-known incident in the Civil Rights Movement.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on February 7, 2018
Booker T. Washington writing at a desk.

Toward a Usable Black History

It will help black Americans to recall that they have a history that transcends victimization and exclusion.
by John McWhorter via City Journal on December 23, 2015

The Massive Liberal Failure on Race, Part III

The Civil Rights movement ignored one very important, very difficult question. It’s time to answer it.
by Tanner Colby via Slate on February 27, 2014

Black Archives Look to Preservation Amid Growing US History Bans

Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present.
by Adria R. Walker via The Guardian on January 15, 2024
School house with Black children playing around it.

How Reconstruction Created American Public Education

Freedpeople and their advocates persuaded the nation to embrace schooling for all.
by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on November 13, 2023
15 women involved in the Montgomery Bus Boycott; Rosa Parks's mugshot is the center.

The Women Behind the Montgomery Bus Boycott

We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role, but Parks was just one of many women involved.
by Karen Grigsby Bates via NPR on March 22, 2023
Buckingham Palace [photo: flickr.com/lorentey/]

American Higher Education’s Past Was Gilded, Not Golden

A missed opportunity for genuine equity.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Academe on October 14, 2022
Group of seated Black soldiers listening to staff sergeant explain G.I. Bill of Rights

How a Hostile America Undermined Its Black World War II Veterans

Service members were attacked, discredited, and shortchanged on GI benefits—with lasting implications.
by Matt Delmont via Mother Jones on October 6, 2022
A group of the newly emancipated working with the US army, 1862.

The Promise of Freedom

A new history of the Civil War and Reconstruction examines the ways in which Black Americans formed networks of self-reliance in their pursuit of emancipation.
by Elias Rodriques via The Nation on October 3, 2022
A gate opening to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard Leaders and Staff Enslaved 79 People, University Finds

The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.
by Nick Anderson, Susan Svrluga via Washington Post on April 26, 2022
Outfielder Darryl Strawberry of the New York Mets in uniform with bat

MLB Could've Stopped Black Talent Drain But Didn't

Baseball’s failure to get out in front of the problem in the 1970s had real and lasting consequences.
by Louis Moore via Global Sport Matters on October 6, 2021
Graduation cap on pile of money
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Policymakers Created the Student Loan Industry — and The Debt Crisis

While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer via Made By History on August 5, 2021
Ernest Wilkins and an atom.

The Unsung African American Scientists of the Manhattan Project

At least 12 Black chemists and physicists worked as primary researchers on the team that developed the technology behind the atomic bomb.
by Farrell Evans via HISTORY on May 17, 2021
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