Honors & Awards

UMKC Professor Carl Allen Named Educator of the Year by Jazz Education Network

With more than 225 jazz recordings to his credit, Professor Allen has performed with several Grammy Award-winning jazz artists. His career in academia includes faculty positions with the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Juilliard School in New York City.

Thaddeus Johnson Recognized for Raising Awareness of Racial Issues in Criminal Justice

Prior to joining the Georgia State University faculty in 2020, Dr. Johnson spent several years as a law enforcement officer in Memphis, Tennessee. For his expertise in racially disparate justice outcomes, the Western Society of Criminology has presented him with the 2025 W.E.B. Du Bois Award.

Book of Poetry by Vanderbilt University’s Major Jackson Recognized by Yale Library

Major Jackson, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, was honored by Yale's Beinecke Library for his recent book, Razzle Dazzle: New and Selected Poems 2002-2022.

Carol Bennett Recognized for Outstanding Leadership in the Field of Urology

Dr. Bennett was the first Black woman to be board-certified by the American Board of Urology. She currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was the university's first woman faculty member in the urology department.

Tuskegee University’s Olga Bolden-Tiller Honored for Commitment to Agricultural Education

Dr. Bolden-Tiller is the dean of the College of Agriculture, Environment, and Nutrition Sciences at Tuskegee University, where she has taught for nearly two decades.

Nneka Dennie Receives National Book Prize for Outstanding Bibliographical Scholarship

Dr. Dennie's award-winning book, Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Radical Feminist, examines the works of North America's first Black woman newspaper editor.

Marsha McGriff Recognized for Diversity Work by the Not Alone Foundation

Marsha McGriff, vice chancellor for equity and inclusion at the University of Masssachusetts Amherst, has been selected to receive the 2025 Diamond Award for Excellence in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership from the Atlanta-based Not Alone Foundation. The foundation's stated mission is fighting kidney disease.

College of Charleston’s Carlos Brown Receives Award for Outstanding Choral Conducting

Dr. Brown currently serves as director of choral activities at the College of Charleston, where he conducts both the concert choir and gospel choir. His background includes leadership roles at two historically Black universities.

Tanisha Ford Wins National Book Award for a Biography of Prominent Civil Rights Movement Fundraiser

Dr. Ford's award-winning book - Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power, Behind the Civil Rights Movement - examines the social history of Mollie Moon, founding president of the National Urban League Guild.

The 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Has Been Awarded to Two Black Scholars

The 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize has been awarded to Marlene Daut, professor at Yale University, and Sara Johnson, professor at the University of California, San Diego.

The Anti-Defamation League Honors Charles Chavis for Scholarship on Black and Jewish Relations

Dr. Chavis currently teaches as an assistant professor of conflict resolution and serves as the founding director of the John Mitchell, Jr. Program for History, Justice, and Race at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

North Carolina Supreme Court Unveils Portrait of NCCU Law Dean Patricia Timmons-Goodson

Patricia Timmons-Goodson was appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2006, making her the first Black woman to serve in that capacity. She has served as dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Law for the past year.

NCA&T Chancellor Emeritus Harold Martin Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Martin served as chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University from 2009 to 2023. Throughout his long tenure, the university experienced substantial growth in enrollment, and is now the largest HBCU in the country.

Herman Taylor Receives National Recognition for Excellence in Clinical Cardiovascular Research

Dr. Herman Taylor currently directs the Cardiovascular Research Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, one of four historically Black medical schools in the country. He was recently honored by the American Heart Association for excellence in clinical research.

Danielle Speller Recognized by the National Society of Black Physicists for Early-Career Accomplishments

Danielle Spencer currently serves as an assitant professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She was honored by the National Society of Black Physicists for her research into dark matter and her mentorship of the next generation of physicists.

Arizona State University Law Presents the O’Connor Justice Prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Johnson Sirleaf was the first woman democratically elected head of state in Africa. She was elected president of Libera in 2005 - just two years after the end of a decades-long civil war.

‘Dimeji Togunde Honored for Lifetime Achievement in Global Education

Dr. 'Dimeji Togunde is the vice provost for global education at Spelman College. Since joining the college's faculty in 2011, he has more than doubled the number of study abroad destinations for Spelman students.

Monic Ductan Receives Inaugural Tennessee Book Award in Fiction

Monic Ductan was honored for her first book, Daughters of Muscadine: Stories. She currently teaches creative writing and literature at Tennessee Tech University.

Kemeshia Swanson Receives 2024 Eudora Welty Book Prize

Dr. Swanson, an assistant professor at Mississippi State University, has been recognized for her new book, Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded Upon Violence and Respectability.

UNCF President Michael Lomax Receives Andrew Jackson Young Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Lomax is currently in his twentieth year as president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund. He has dedicated his five-decades-long career to civic duty and education, including service as the fifth president of Dillard University in New Orleans.
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