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What Dr. Ibram Kendi’s Appointment to Howard Means for HBCUs—and Black Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. It was at least a decade later before Fisk's John Lewis Center for Social Justice was established in 2019 to carry on a similar mantle. Most recently, he was the Andrew W.

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A Hope Built on Things Eternal: A Scholar’s Vision for Black Education - Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

a recently tenured professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madisons Department of Leadership and Policy Analysis, exemplifies how personal experience can shape academic pursuits and social justice advocacy. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.,

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Training Culturally Conscious Performing Artists

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The August 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, aroused a sweeping reappraisal of race and social justice issues. He successfully pitched the 2020 creation of a new class exploring racism through the theatrical lens. Louis, six months after Brown’s death, by an off-duty officer. “It

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Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, Pastor of Historic Abyssinian Baptist Church and Veteran Educator, Dies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Butts was also the former president of the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Old Westbury from 1999 until his retirement in 2020. Butts III, who served as senior pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church and was one of New York City's most influential religious and community leaders, died Friday at 73. Reverend Dr. Calvin O.

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U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. Dettlaff did start to focus more on abolition—of the police and of the child welfare system—more in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, however.

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Breaking Bread in Communities of Learners

The Scholarly Teacher

Paul Vivian Johnson , Hamline University Key Statement: This article reports on a relationship between two social justice professors who shared stories of battle fatigue and, in doing so, supported each other in avoiding burnout. As Feagin (2020) has documented, white people have front-stage and backstage conversations about race.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She rebranded Cal’s annual tournament to reflect a focus on social justice and equity. We also highlight things they’re doing in their own communities and on their campuses to promote social justice.” Part of the demands that intensified in 2020 was the call to make athletic departments more diverse.

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