On Stanford’s All White Male History Conference
In December 1969, a group of historians organized the Coordinating Committee of Women Historians in the Profession, which, in 1995,
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Higher Education
The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies
The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Souls of Academic Folk
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In higher education debates, W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps
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W. E. B. Du Bois and the Representation of Black Higher Education
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In a previous post for Black Perspectives, I wrote
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The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
One of the most painful and haunting images that I recall from Stanley Nelson’s documentary, Tell Them We Are Rising:
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