Donald E. Wilson
Physician and academic administrator Dr. Donald E. Wilson was born on August 28, 1936, in Worcester, Massachusetts to Rivers and Licine Wilson. He attended Dix...
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Tilahun D. Yilma
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Tilahun D. Yilma is a Distinguished Professor of Virology in the School of Medicine and the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California,...
Dr. Moses Wharton Young
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Dr. Moses Wharton Young was born in Spartansburg, S.C., in 1903 and moved to the Washington area in 1924. He graduated from Howard University, where...
After fleeing the Nazis, many Jewish refugee professors found homes at historically black colleges
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by Heather Gilligan When Jewish refugee Ernst Borinski fled Nazi Germany, he found a new home in a very strange place: Jackson, Mississippi. The South...
Anna Julia Cooper
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Anna Julia Cooper, née Anna Julia Haywood, (born August 10, 1858?, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.—died February 27, 1964, Washington, D.C.), American educator and writer whose...
Dr. Harold Amos
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The first African American to chair a department of the Harvard Medical School, Dr. Harold Amos was an esteemed teacher, researcher, and mentor at the institution for...
Michelle Alexander
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Michelle Alexander is a civil rights lawyer, advocate, professor, and scholar who is best known for her acclaimed work The New Jim Crow (2010). Born...
John Henrik Clarke – The pioneer who made Africana Studies prominent in Academia
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Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist writer, historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies and professional institutions in academia starting...
Banned in Jamaica and assassinated in his home country of Guyana, here’s why Walter Rodney was so fearsome
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An intellectual and scholar regarded as one of the Caribbean’s most brilliant minds, Walter Anthony Rodney, born to Edward and Pauline Rodney in Georgetown, Guyana...
Harvard Law School traces its origins to an Antiguan slave owner. Now the country wants reparations.
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In an urgently worded letter recently sent to Harvard, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne demanded that the university pay his country reparations ‘‘for...