Tag: Simmons College

HBCUs

Papa Johns Founder Donates $1M to Simmons College

Papa Johns founder John Schnatter recently donated $1 million to Simmons College of Kentucky. This comes more than a year after he resigned from the pizza-chain after using a racial slur during a conference call and receiving backlash about his comments regarding National Football League players protesting the national anthem. However, his past was not […]

September 6, 2019

Opinion

Sister to Sister: Strengthening Connections of Black College Women

It is bad enough that some Black college students who attend predominantly White institutions are made to feel inferior or “less than” during their higher education tenure, as identified by Idealist philosopher Georg Hegel in his analysis of the theory of “othering.”

February 26, 2018

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Simmons College to Name School for Late Journalist Gwen Ifill

Simmons College announced Tuesday the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts and Humanities in honor of Ifill, who graduated from the private Boston college with a communications degree in 1977.

November 14, 2017

African-American

Simmons College Added to Official HBCU Registry

Simmons College has officially received federal designation as a historically Black college, the Kentucky institution announced Monday.

April 21, 2015