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Dr. Blair LM Kelley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Blair LM Kelley is a noted scholar of Black history and the African American experience. Kelley — the author of Black Folk: The Promise of the Black Working Class and the award-winning Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship — is a John Hope Franklin National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

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Grant Fuels Black Studies Faculty Expansion at the University of Rochester

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Sproull Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, said in a press release. Before the department was established in the 2023-2024 academic year, Black studies faculty were housed within UR’s Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. “Our and Mary L.

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Dismantling Global Injustices

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history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. Dr. Jeannette E.

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

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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 Dr. Ruth J. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons is former president of Brown University. “If

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Dismantling Global Injustices - Dr. Brendan Skip Mark

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history, Tufts University; M.A., His work has long focused on the intersections among human rights, political economy, collective dissent, and empirical methodology. Amid the global economic crisis in 2008, Mark says he worried what he would do with his undergraduate degree in history from Tufts University. Dr. Jeannette E.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

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John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.

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2023 Year in Review

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Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.” 30, 2024, so that borrowers who did not begin repayment by October did not suffer from late fees or loans going into default, though interest will accrue. Effective July 1, 2024, she will become the school’s first woman and first Black president. Approximately 2.9