Ibram H. RogersOpinionCommentary: FAMU’s Life or Death Decisions at 125 Years OldIn the aftermath of the tragic death of drum major, Robert Champion last year, I began to realize that we are living in one of the most important periods in the 125-year history of Florida A&M University, University of Albany historian Ibram H. Rogers writes.July 16, 2012HomeCommentary: Armored Vehicle on a College Campus?Historian Ibram Rogers considers the effort by the University of California Berkeley Police Department along with the local police departments of Berkeley and Albany to purchase an armored vehicle.June 26, 2012OpinionCommentary: Punitive Standardized Testing Produces Unstandardized SchoolsStudents in vastly different schools are taking the same tests, which is and has always been incredibly unfair, writes University of Albany historian Ibram Rogers.June 13, 2012HomeCommentary: Gorilla Taunts of a Professor as Jim Crow Flaps at UCLARelating Black people to gorillas was and still is the ultimate attack on Black people, on Black humanity, SUNY College-Oneonta historian Ibram Rogers writes.May 23, 2012OpinionCommentary: Congress – Bail Out the Indebted StudentsWhile Congress dished out trillions in the last decade to fund foreign wars and bailouts, student debt rose like the hand of an attentive student in a classroom, writes SUNY College-Oneonta historian Ibram Rogers.May 2, 2012HomeCommentary: Seeing History – Students Against Mass Incarceration at HowardAs a historian of Black student activism, I am seeing something historic taking place at Howard University with the formation of Students Against Mass Incarceration, writes SUNY professor Ibram H. Rogers.April 5, 2012African-AmericanCommentary: Probing the Comparison – Trayvon Martin/Mass Incarceration and Emmett Till/SegregationA historian writes that placing rage in historical context is what comparisons between responses to Trayvon Martin’s death and that of Emmett Till’s show.March 25, 2012HomeCommentary: The Fallacy of Race Neutrality in Affirmative Action’s DialecticIn reviewing the language used in the Texas affirmative action case and really the whole argument over affirmative action’s use over the last decade, there has emerged a false dialectic, pivoting at the axis of the conflict, a history professor contends.February 26, 2012African-AmericanCommentary: The Complex Simplicity of Black Male Success in CollegeWhen I read through the key findings of the study, I was struck by the simplicity of the reasons these Black men offered as to why they have succeeded in college.February 12, 2012OpinionCommentary: The End of HazingLaws that target individuals need to be revamped with the understanding that hazing is and always has been a corporate tradition, whether or not each member of the group participates, writes history professor Ibram H. Rogers.January 2, 2012Previous PagePage 2 of 3Next Page
