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 with suggestions of articles for inclusion in this feature.
Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers
Why Antiwar Protests Haven’t Flared Up at Black Colleges Like Morehouse
Lehigh Awarded for Diversity Efforts, but Students Still Fall Through the Cracks
Black Member of Florida History Curriculum Working Group Calls Kamala Harris’s Accusation That State Is ‘Replacing History With Lies’ ‘Categorically False’
Schools are More Segregated than 30 Years Ago. But How Much?
Black Babies Were Used as Alligator Bait in the American South?
Fifteen-Year-Old Future Doctor Will Be One of the Youngest Indiana Students to Earn a Bachelor’s Degree
Educational Research Should Pinpoint Anti-Black Aggressions to Build Better Policy, Scholar Argues
Black Principals Play a Key Role in Transforming Education. We Need More of Them
Mary McLeod Bethune, Known as the ‘First Lady of Negro America,’ Also Sought to Unify the African Diaspora
Oklahoma Black Caucus Finds State Underfunded Langston University By $160 Million In Last Decade
A Chicago Teen Entered College at 10. At 17, She Earned a Doctorate From Arizona State
Three Ways Philanthropy Can Respond to Attacks on Affirmative Action, According to Black Leaders
Brown v. Board of Education: 70 Years of Progress and Challenges
How the Romantic Institution Props-up a Racialized Dating Landscape
University of Oklahoma Sued for Racist Scholarship Practices
Before Brown, the U.S. Had 100 Black Boarding Schools. Now, There Are 4
MIT Hired Six New Diversity Deans. Two of Them Are Serial Plagiarists, Complaint Alleges.
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Online Articles That May Be of Interest to JBHE Readers
Each week, JBHE will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
AAUP Urges Institutions to Fund, Protect, and Publicize DEI Initiatives in Academia
The AAUP urges academic institutions to recruit and retain diverse faculty and student bodies and to "fund, protect, and publicize research in all fields that contributes to the common good and responds more widely to the needs of a diverse public."
In Memoriam: Ralphenia D. Pace
A scholar of food and nutritional sciences, Dr. Pace taught at Tuskegee University in Alabama for more than 40 years.
Black Matriculants Are Down at U.S. Medical Schools
In 2024, the share of Black applicants to U.S. medical schools increased by 2.8 percent from 2023. However, the share of Black medical school matriculants decreased by 11.6 percent. Notably, there has been year-over-year progress in overall Black medical school representation, which has risen to from 7.9 percent in 2017 to 10.3 percent in 2024.
