Social Justice

Morgan State Acquires the Papers of Late Congressman Cummings

Morgan State University announced it has acquired a personal collection of papers and artwork from the estate of the late Congressman Elijah E. Cummings.

Elijah Cummings

Second Chance Pell Students Mark Progress for Prison Education

Miami Dade College will award associate degrees to 18 incarcerated students at Everglades Correctional Institution.

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ASHE Conference Focuses on Spanning and Unsettling the Borders of Higher Education

On the second day of the conference, scholars participated in a variety of workshops that focused on a range of topics, including cultivating student persistence and success to pushing for access and diversity in international higher education.

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Educator, Activist and Poet Sonia Sanchez Receives Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize

Boston University Launches Antiracist Scholar Program for Aspiring Lawyers

Boston University School of Law (BU Law) started a new program called Antiracist Scholars for Progress, Innovation, and Racial Equity (ASPIRE) with the University's Center for Antiracist Research. ASPIRE scholars will receive a full scholarship to BU Law.

Dr. Angela Onwuachi-Willig, dean of Boston University School of Law and professor of law

Panel at National Urban League Conference Tackles Black Wealth Gap

At the National Urban League’s annual conference this week, business leaders in a Wednesday session shared how Black and brown communities can help close the racial economic gap by working together and educating each other.

Dr. Michael Casson, dean of the College of Business at Delaware State University and a panelist at the National Urban League's 2021 conference

Alum Creates Social Justice Fund and Scholarship at Central College

Dr. Paul Poppen

Author and Diversity Advocate, Dr. James Loewen, Dead at 79

Dr. James W. Loewen

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Ivory A. Toldson Named NAACP's New Director of Education Innovation and Research

The NAACP has named Dr. Ivory A. Toldson its new director of education innovation and research.

Dr. Ivory A. Toldson

African-American

Darren Lenard Hutchinson Named Emory University Inaugural John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice

Darren Lenard Hutchinson has been named Emory University School of Law’s inaugural John Lewis Chair for Civil Rights and Social Justice, effective Jul. 1. Hutchinson – legal, social justice and civil rights scholar – is currently the Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Previously, Hutchinson held […]

Darren Lenard Hutchinson

Lehigh University Receives $2.5 Million to Create Social Justice Institute

Lehigh University has received $2.5 million to create an institute for social and racial justice, lehighvalleylive.com reported. The donation comes from Bethlehem native and philanthropist Charles Marcon, an executive with Allentown-based Duggan & Marcon. The “Marcon Institute” is to prepare and deploy undergrad students – Marcon Fellows – to work with community partners to enact […]

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African-American

Scholars Wonder at the Trajectory of Expanding Social Justice Programs

George Floyd was killed by police a few miles from Dr. Valerie Chepp’s house. And as her students went out into the streets to protest this past summer, she completely redesigned her senior capstone course for the fall. Chepp is the social justice program director for Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and through the program, she felt like she had the opportunity to address the questions student activists were asking themselves while equipping them with applicable skills for their community organizing.

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A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics

American sport has always served as a platform for resistance and has been measured and critiqued by how it responds in critical moments of racial and social crises.

A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics