Motivational Mondays
The time will come when we will not confine our marching to Washington. We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did. We shall pursue our own scorched earth” policy and burn Jim...
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More Than Memory
Julius Rosenwald at Tuskegee, Spring of 1922. Julius Rosenwald Fund Archives, 1917-1948, Box 24F. John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library,...
“Big John” Merritt Still Black College Football Great
When the Kentucky State University football team travels to Nashville to face off with the Tennessee State University Tigers at the John...
More Money, More Problems Among HBCUs
Okay. I’m not the Fiskite who normally does this.
That’s what I said before I said the Fisk Jubilee...
A Requiem for Fisk University’s Dr. Reavis L. Mitchell Jr. ’69 (1947-2020)
Dr. Reavis Lee Mitchell Jr. gifted scores of students with the splendor of his remarkable storytelling. So enchanting were his words that he could have sold blue to the sky or green to lawns of Kentucky bluegrass. His story-selling was only of dreams which required no hoop. School was our daze. Fisk University was our forever.
The Matchless Manhood of Dr. McDonald Williams, Tennessee State Master Teacher
For 102 years, November 13th has been marked by the birthday of McDonald Williams. This year is the first without him....
At Morehouse College, Black billionaire Robert F. Smith’s approximately $40 million gift to graduates...
In the Blackest of all stage acts, Black billionaire Robert F. Smith, the founder of the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, made it...
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“Big John” Merritt Still Black College Football Great
When the Kentucky State University football team travels to Nashville to face off with the Tennessee State University Tigers at the John...
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