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Brown Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Celebrates 10 Years

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Brown University released its landmark 2006 report documenting the institution’s historical involvement in slavery, many of its recommendations were one-time fixes: revising the university’s official history, creating memorials, and the like. For us, the question of racial slavery could not just be an academic affair,” said Bogues.

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Maryland (UMD) has released its first report covering the history of their institution and its intersection with slavery, The 1856 Project – Reconstructing the Truth. These stories are complicated and often traumatizing, Hughes-Watkins said, but their discovery can play a critical role in healing a racially stratified world.

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The Future is Bright for Indiana University's 15-Year-Old Graduate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I’m a sociologist but also an historian, so I go through the history of race in America starting with the genocide of Native Americans, slavery, and trying to explain how slavery worked, how powerful slave holders were at the time, all that. What I didn’t really realize at first was that he was very struck by this,” said Bloom.

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Pursuing Life’s Passion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among other things, the project seeks to analyze images from the 18th and 19th centuries that were “crafted to remove associations of death, disease, and the horrors of slavery” by promoting the Caribbean as picturesque. Colleagues say Nduom’s research fills a critical void. Nduom’s architectural career begins in the Caribbean.

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Dr. Ruth J. Simmons Takes Readers ‘Up Home’ in New Memoir

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During her tenure at Brown, for instance, she prompted a national conversation about slavery by examining the university’s ties to the transatlantic slave trade. At the heart of those questions was a deep curiosity about how she overcame seeming insurmountable odds to become a world-renowned college administrator.

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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I’m less interested in preparing Black children for this world if we are not also preparing the world for the Black children,” says Mims, assistant professor of applied psychology at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University.

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Why African American History Month Is the Quintessential American Celebration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Woodson for his conception and development of this singularly American institution which provides a shared opportunity, on an annual basis, to take a snapshot of the internal dynamics of American society, and to deliberate about where the country that most people consider to be the greatest economic power in world history is headed.

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