Twinette Johnson Named Dean of the Saint Louis University School of Law
Dr. Johnson's new appointment marks a return to Saint Louis University, where she first began her career in academia as an associate professor of legal writing. She will assume her new position as dean of the School of Law on July 1.
Southern Illinois University Promotes Marc Morris to Dean of the College of Business and Analytics
After serving as interim dean for nearly a year and half, Dr. Morris has been selected to serve as permanent dean of the College of Business and Analytics at Southern Illinois University. He has been a faculty member with the university for two decades.
Cherrise Jones-Branch Named Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Communication at Arkansas State University
Dr. Jones-Branch has been serving as dean of the Graduate School and the James E. and Wanda Lee Vaughn Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences. She has been a faculty member with Arkansas State University for more than two decades.
Research & Studies
Poll Finds Black Americans Are More Concerned About Environmental Pollution Than White Americans
According to a new Gallup poll, 4 million Black Americans have relocated temporarily, and 2 million have relocated permanently, due to pollution concerns in the last 12 months alone.
Study Finds Scientists With African Names are Less Likely to Be Featured in News Stories
The study found scientists with African-sounding names are 15 percent less likely to be quoted by news outlets than their peers with Anglo-sounding names.
Statistic of the Week
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Number of Black jockeys in the first Kentucky Derby in 1875
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Number of Black jockeys in the 150th Kentucky Derby in 2024
Source: Churchill Downs (photo credit: Kentucky Derby Museum)
Quote of the Week
“HBCUs are the effective culturally-grounded machine that produces what W.E.B Du Bois called the 'talented tenth' and what I call the vanguard of Black intellectualism.”