Black Issues
Civil Rights Veterans Teach the Movement
Robert Moses and Charles Cobb are among the 1960s civil rights activists who have made the transition to academia, helping students born in a different era understand how the freedom struggle transformed America.
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Cultural Currents
Dr. Pamela D. Reed navigates the often treacherous white waters of America's ever-changing cultural landscape. Come what may, she keeps it moving-the dialogue, that is.
I last wrote about a CNN personality and perceived homophobia in my article, “Don Lemon’s Assumption on Black Women Challenged.” Lemon had alleged in his memoir that Black women are the primary source of prejudice against gay Black men.
Ironically, it is now Lemon’s African-American male colleague Roland Martin who now faces termination for alleged homophobia.
By now, everyone has heard that CNN has suspended Roland Martin from his very high-profile and, no doubt, high-paying position as a political analyst for the news network seen around the world.
And unfortunately for Mr. Martin, his ill-advised Super Bowl tweets also reverberated thusly. And how could they not have, when you consider the CNN man’s stunning missives, two of which contain action verbs that suggest, well, violence: “smack” and “whip.”
After viewing David Beckham’s Super Bowl ad, featuring the scantily clad soccer hottie, wearing nothing but the form-fitting underwear he was promoting, Martin was inexplicably moved to write these now infamous tweets:
'If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwe...
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Emerging Scholars
University of Pennsylvania Names W.E.B. DuBois Honorary Emeritus Professor
After barring W.E.B. DuBois as a young sociologist from a teaching job more than a century ago, the University of Pennsylvania has now granted the late scholar an honorary professorship.
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Fisk University President Hazel R. O’Leary to Retire in December
News of O’Leary’s departure announcement comes as the school manages to maintain a small, solid academic program while continuing to lose enrollment and thirst for a huge infusion of money to keep its doors open.
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Prominent FAMU Trustee Resigns from University Board
Richard Dent III, a Florida A & M University graduate and successful retail executive, resigned earlier this month from his post as vice chair of the FAMU Board of Trustees.
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Lawsuit in FAMU Death Reveals Details of Hazing
The parents of a Florida A&M band member who died after being hazed filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against the owner and driver of the charter bus where the ritual took place, and revealed new details about what might have happened the night Robert Champion died.
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