HBCUs make up just 3% of the country’s colleges and universities. But their graduates include 40% of Black engineers and 50% of Black lawyers.
Articles on Howard University
Displaying all articles
Your identity is not the result of a single decision, but rather the confluence of several factors.
Increased mistrust of the US medical profession and higher mortality rates are consequences of the low numbers of Black doctors. A massive gift to Black medical colleges may help build those numbers.
Increased mistrust of the US medical profession and higher mortality rates are two consequences of the lack of Black doctors.
While it’s widely believed that Howard University came to be known as “The Mecca” in the 1960s, new evidence shows the nickname is more than half a century older than that.
Kittrell’s legacy shows that home economics was always about more than cooking and sewing. It’s also a reminder that issues that affect families are simultaneously local and global.
A single Tweet the day before she took over as dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University has led to calls for Phylicia Rashad’s ouster. A scholar on college deans weighs in on what’s next.
As the student protest over conditions at Howard University continues, a scholar weighs in on what the fallout means for historically black colleges and universities.
Young activists are using journalism to advance their cause. Though their work echoes student activists and journalists of the 1960s, they use new tools not available to the activists of that era.
The civil rights movement produced many different types of leaders. Thurgood Marshall, argued successfully before the Supreme Court that racial segregation laws violated the US Constitution. Diane Nash…
Top contributors
-
Assistant Professor of Community Health, Tufts University
-
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and History, Bowdoin College
-
Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University
-
Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University
-
Professor of English, Arizona State University
-
Lecturer in Journalism, University of Maryland
-
Instructor of Criminology & Justice, Loyola University New Orleans
-
Senior Lecturer in Media Production, University of Stirling
-
Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Director of the Black Study in Education Lab, Penn State