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Cowboy Culture Has Always Been Black Culture

Jun 10, 2024 | Books, Culture

I grew up in Southern California’s High Desert, home of renowned Hollywood cowboy Roy Rogers. I loved the expansiveness of the desert, which meant there was space for animals like horses, but I never felt a connection to cowboys. Little did I know then that,...

Black Educators Still Matter

May 13, 2024 | Books, Education, Higher Education, Men

Dr. Darrius Stanley, author of the book “#Black Educators Matter”, says that Black educators have historically provided much more than academic instruction in the classroom. He says that, most importantly, they offer a vision for the future. Stanley is the assistant...

Dean Jarrett’s Selections For Black History Month

Feb 12, 2024 | Books, History

In his biography “Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird,” selected as one of The New Yorker’s best books of 2022, Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett illuminates the complexities of Dunbar’s rise to prominence in the Gilded Age....