John Brooks Slaughter
John Brooks Slaughter, a computer scientist is a professor of education and of engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He previously...
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Donald E. Wilson
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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...
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 (1858 – 1964) was a visionary black feminist leader, educator, intellectual, and activist. She rose to prominence as one of the country’s...
Dr. Harold Amos
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Dr. Harold Amos, the first African American to chair a department of the Harvard Medical School, left an indelible mark on the fields of medicine...
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
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A Pioneer in Africana Studies and Pan-Africanism John Henrik Clarke, born on January 1, 1915, in Union Springs, Alabama, emerged as a towering figure in...
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...