Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers

Each week, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of African Americans in higher education. The articles selected do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE.

We invite subscribers to e-mail us or tweet @jbhedotcom with suggestions of articles for inclusion in this feature.

Why It Might Have Been Better If the Supreme Court Had Let Colleges Have ‘Quotas’
Washington Post

Sexual Abuse of Slaves by Students at Founding Father’s University Revealed by Historians
The Independent

There Are 100,000 Teachers in Missouri and Kansas. How Come Only 1% Are Black Men?
The Kansas City Star

Amid Criticism, the University of Georgia Looks Closer at its Slave History
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Black Cultural Center Opening Brings to Life Years-Long Inclusion Efforts on Campus
The Register-Guard

Atlanta HBCUs Train Next Generation Of African American Art Curators
GPB Radio

Seventy Years After Lyman Johnson Made History, the University of Kentucky Looks Forward and Back on Desegregation
Lexington Herald Leader

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