Tag: Morehouse

African-American

HBCUs Have Benefited From Philanthropy in Wake of Black Lives Matter Protests

Within days after Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and his wife Patty Quillin pledged a total of $120 million to the United Negro College Fund and two of Atlanta’s historically Black colleges, another HBCU became an indirect beneficiary of that philanthropic gesture.

August 6, 2020

Sports

Morehouse College Cancels Fall Sports Amid COVID-19 Concerns

The historically Black Morehouse College has cancelled its fall football and cross country seasons in response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, in light of an expected second wave of COIVD-19 predicted to begin in September. In a letter announcing the decision Friday, Dr. David A. Thomas, Morehouse’s president, cited the inability to social distance during […]

June 26, 2020

News Roundup

A. Benjamin Spencer Named First Black Dean at William & Mary

The William & Mary Law School — the oldest law school in America — has appointed A. Benjamin Spencer its next dean. It’s an historic decision as Spencer is the first African American dean of any school at the university. A nationally-known civil procedure and federal courts expert, Spencer is currently the Justice Thurgood Marshall […]

May 24, 2020