Higher Education - AAIHS

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:

Last month, students at Spelman and Morehouse Colleges ended their two-week hunger strike designed to raise awareness about food insecurity

During the presidential primaries of 2016, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders promoted a policy that, for many, was a radical idea.

What happens when college and university administrators are unable to prevent white supremacists from spreading racist propaganda on their campuses?

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening