The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

The Getty Foundation recently awarded $1.8 million for eight grants through its Black Visual Arts Archive Initiative. Among the grant recipients are Morgan State University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Maryland.

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Two students have been suspended from Florida International University for participating in a group chat that was filled with racist and sexist slurs, descriptions of violently killing Black people, and musings about Hitler's politics.

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Martin University, the only predominately Black higher education institution in the state of Indiana, permanently closed its doors in January. The former campus has now been acquired by Eastern Star Church, whose leaders plan to use the space to build affordable housing options for the local community.

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In 1971, Brown took a position in San Diego State University's department of academic affairs, making him the university's first Black administrator. One year later, he established what is now known as the department of Africana studies.

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“The question is not whether HBCUs can produce rigorous science. They already do,“ said M.C. Brown II, executive director of the Dr. N. Joyce Payne Research Center. “The question is whether we — the research enterprise and the nation — will choose to invest in them as the strategic national assets they are.“

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