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Black History Month 2024: African Americans and the Arts 

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The national theme for Black History Month 2024 is “ African Americans and the Arts.” Black History Month 2024 is a time to recognize and highlight the achievements of Black artists and creators, and the role they played in U.S. history and in shaping our country today.

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Civil Rights Leaders Declare The Freedom To Learn at Rally in Washington D.C.

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Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of African American Policy Forum and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University.

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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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Rochester’s Black studies program is designed to integrate various disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, to explore the historical, cultural, psychological, economic, and political aspects of people of African descent in the “Atlantic world,” which includes the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

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Brown University Exhibit on Mumia Abu-Jamal to Highlight American Prison System

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28 to July 2024, across multiple campus sites. Alongside the opening, there will be a two-day symposium, “Voices of Mass Incarceration,” about law enforcement, prison medical care, public art, incarceration’s effects on women and girls, and the history of incarceration. The event will take place Sept.

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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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Liaison and NAGAP Forge Partnership to Empower Graduate Enrollment Management 

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14, 2024) — Liaison International , a leader in higher education technology solutions, has partnered with NAGAP , The Association for Graduate Enrollment Management committed to the advancement of graduate enrollment management (GEM). This announcement was originally published on PR Newswire on February 21, 2024. WATERTOWN, Mass.,

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