Mrs. Barbara Ross and the Fight for Educational Equity
Earlier this year, we celebrated the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As we look to the future,
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Higher Education
The Divine Nine and the Formation of Black Studies
This post is part of our forum on “The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me.” As a fourth-generation member
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Dorothy Porter, Archives, and the Preservation of Black Studies
The explosive growth of Black studies programs and departments after 1968 triggered a wave of bibliographic scholarship. Colleges, universities, and
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John Potts and Radical Student Activism
Black educator Dr. John Foster Potts may be a largely unknown figure today, but in Jim Crow-era South Carolina he
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Coke Money and Apartheid Divestment in U.S. Higher Education
Philanthropic gifting to US higher education amounted to an astronomical $52.9 billion in 2021. Higher education has enjoyed a long
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