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Howard University Taps Antiracist Scholar Ibram X. Kendi to Head New Advanced Studies Institute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kendi significant expansion of the historically Black university's research capabilities. The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities. Dr. Ibram X. Board of Education decision.

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

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Kendi, a historian and antiracist activist, has made waves since publishing Stamped from the Beginning , which won the 2016 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he founded the Center for Antiracist Research under a five-year charter in 2020. Cole "cannot do."

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Dr. Robin DiAngelo, University of Washington

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Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, tracing how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.She is a two-time winner of the Students Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washingtons School of Social Work. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates.

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Dr. Tania D. Mitchell, University of Maryland

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Her research focuses on community engagement as a critical practice to explore civic identity, social justice, student learning and development. Mitchell is an internationally recognized scholar whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Evans and Andrea D.

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What to Expect When Expecting a DEI Layoff

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where I had the privilege to pay it forward with my students and advance equity and social justice through my research. There are plenty of how-to books and articles about picking yourself up after a job loss, but we rarely discuss the pain of losing our workspace and the daily routines we once shared with colleagues.

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Clark Atlanta University and the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation Launch Institute, to Host Convening

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Institute for Leadership, Civic Engagement, Economic Empowerment and Social Justice (NCBCP TWD Jr. By uniting the power of the ballot, the book, and the buck, we are laser focused on rebuilding hope, justice, equity, and equality in Black America." Dortch, Jr., Institute) at CAU.

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Dr. Derrick Brooms Appointed Executive Director of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College

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Derrick Brooms will become executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute (BMRI) at Morehouse College, effective Aug. Dr. Derrick Brooms Brooms is currently associate department head of Africana studies and professor of Africana studies and sociology at University of Tennessee-Knoxville.

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