James Earl McLeod, vice chancellor of students and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has died after a battle with cancer.
The William H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has established a new scholarship program to honor George Howard Jr., the first African-American federal judge in Arkansas.
John Q. Taylor King Sr., the longest-serving president of what is now Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, died earlier this month. He was 89...
Matthew J. Perry (1921-2011)
Matthew J. Perry, civil rights leader and the first African-American federal judge in South Carolina, died late last month at his...