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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

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I didn’t have enough money at that time to become a subscriber, so I would either sit and read the magazine wherever I found it, or I would take it, read it from cover-to-cover, and then return it to its rightful owner. I grew up reading more magazines than newspapers. The latter plays itself out most powerfully on the front cover.

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

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Kendi, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people, brings considerable scholarly credentials to the position. The institute will focus on interdisciplinary research addressing global African diaspora issues, including studies on race, technology, climate change, and systemic disparities.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

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Contact : Maya Matthews Minter Phone : 703.385.2411 Email : Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars FAIRFAX, VA — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education will kick off 2023 with its annual Emerging Scholars edition.

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Renowned UC Berkeley Sociology Professor Killed in Oakland Hit-and-Run

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He was also the founding editor of Global Dialogue magazine and served as co-chair and secretary of the Berkeley Faculty Association from 2015 to 2021. His scholarly impact was profound, with his published works receiving over 50,000 citations.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Howard University

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Hannah-Jones spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, including as a staff writer at The New York Times Magazine. Her reporting earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, and three National Magazine Awards. She co-founded the Ida B.

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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

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It is by no fault of our own that we do not know viable presses such as Black Classic Press, founded by Paul Coates (1978), Third World Press, founded by Haki Madhubuti (1967), Africa World Press/Red Sea Press by African Activist, Kassahun Checole (1983), and Just Us Books by the Hudsons (1988), collectively known as the LEGENDS IN BLACK PUBLISHING.

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Diverse Ushers in New Leadership

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As DEI comes under attack, the struggles we are currently facing rekindle memories of the foundational years of our magazine, then called Black Issues In Higher Education ,” he said. Cox said that Diverse will be even more aggressive in covering important issues that impacts diversity efforts both within and outside of the academy. “As

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