When does African American history begin? How does the 1526-framing of Black history affect the development of a culture of resistance? Members of the Morehouse faculty announce a new book project: “The 1526 Project: Gullah Geechee Origins of African American History and Cultures of Resistance."
When does African American history begin? How does the 1526-framing of Black history affect the development of a culture of resistance? Members of the Morehouse faculty announce a new book project: “The 1526 Project: Gullah Geechee Origins of African American History and Cultures of Resistance."
What is the importance of trust and how does it affect our relationships?
The campaign against critical race theory is a disingenuous and concerted effort on the right to limit discussion about America’s history of race division, stoke political division, and ensure GOP electoral power.
It’s not unethical for colleges to require low-risk, potentially high-benefit beneficence as a condition for being part of their communities.
The U.S. needs more moral leaders. Moral leadership includes virtue, courage, integrity, empathy, imagination, wisdom and individuals who serve the common good while inviting others to join the movement.
Enforcement must be aggressive, robust, and free of political interference.
A conversation with Andrew Douglas and Jared Loggins about their new book on Martin Luther King, Jr.
A music professor shares a short documentary from his recent Fulbright Fellowship in Nigeria.
The perils of believing on inadequate evidence and what we can do to form better beliefs.
Thinking with the Morehouse community about student debt and our democratic obligations.
While there were no prohibitions on reading, it was illegal to teach slaves to write.
The Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership strives to serve as a hub for promoting social justice in various forms, including the delivery of a humanities education for incarcerated and returning citizens in Georgia.
The author traces the discovery of a rare archival collection and discusses the use of historical fiction to achieve distinctive pedagogical objectives centered on the teaching and learning of Africana studies and American history.
Coping? Is it even a real thing? How can one cope when there is so much out-of-this-world stuff happening?
The servant leadership ethos is deeply rooted in Morehouse College’s institutional history and is situated in the core of its distinctive contemporary mission.
Skepticism of COVID vaccines is heavy within communities of color. Black and Brown scientists and health care providers have roles to play in building trust.
Morehouse College, the # 1 HBCU producer of Rhodes Scholars, has helped produce another Rhodes Scholar, University of Georgia student Phaidra Buchanan, a Mathlete alumna of the Morehouse College Annual Math Competitions Bootcamp.
Significant disparities in access to STEM degree attainment and employment reflect the exclusion of Blacks from STEM educational pathways and the US STEM workforce. The consequences of this under-representation include a lack of diverse approaches and perspectives in research, treatment, and public health interventions. Morehouse College fulfills its social justice mission by excelling in the production of STEM graduates who complete the PhD and join the STEM workforce.
The Black Ink Project will connect the writing skills development of Morehouse students to their exploration of topics related to Black Life, History, and Culture (BLHAC), a process that we believe will increase their engagement and ultimately improve their writing proficiency.
Can success in the first physics course taken be predicted by placement into first math course taken, at or above calculus I? Dr. Tuwaner Lamar shares the results of her research with the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA).
We are Melissa Owen, Keisha Tassie, Kami Jogee. We are family. I am their aunt. I am her niece. I am her cousin. We are women of colour. We are Black, we are White, we are South Asian.
As the COVID pandemic continues to impact communities of color disproportionately, HBCUs and our graduates will continue to be at the forefront of finding solutions as educators, clinical trial volunteers, research scientists, partners, and visionaries reimagining a more equitable health system.
The Need for an Intersectional Approach to the Defund the Police Movement
Over the past several years I have patched together a Morehouse College reading list, circulating it here and there among colleagues and student scholars. Here is the latest rendition.
King claimed that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” Is our nation approaching a state of “spiritual death”? What metrics are best indicative of our spiritual health, collectively, as a nation if not a beloved community?
Voters across the nation should prepare for similar circumstances in their communities – but there is still time for them to demand better from their officials.
This essay reflects on the relationship between broader social movements and the lives and deaths of W. E. B. DuBois, John Lewis, and Rev. C. T. Vivian.
A conversation with Levar Smith about his new co-edited book.
A conversation with Andrew Douglas about his new book.
This essay situates the argument for reparations for slavery in the context of centuries of black political and intellectual history.
This essay provides a backdrop to the wave of protests to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and others, and it argues that anti-black violence and black protest movements have been recurrent themes in black history from the colonial era to the present age.
This visual story of land shows some of the land that Morehouse owns that can be put into partnerships like no other. With a respect for history and people, properties could become centers of innovation, creative incubators, language-centered student housing, faculty and guest housing, living and learning centers. As developers make offers to purchase land that sits campus-adjacent, Morehouse has a unique ability to safeguard and embrace Black people and Black communities.
Martin Luther King, Jr. ’48 advocated allegiances across borders and demonstrated that social justice depends upon the recognition of the interconnectedness of humanity. In this moment of crisis, his philosophy speaks to international protesters and to a new generation of Morehouse students.
A conversation with Oumar Ba about his new book.
Faculty at Morehouse College are parents, too. With the responsibility of teaching young Black men also comes the protection of a mother’s love.
More training, more equipment, and more officers will not stop police from killing Black people.
The Maroon Tiger is the Morehouse College student news organization. We invite you to take a look at timely content about two of the world’s major issues: the coronavirus pandemic and George Floyd’s death with a policeman’s knee on his neck in Minneapolis.
We, the faculty and staff of Morehouse College, stand in solidarity with the national and international response of grief and anger concerning the recent killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others. We invite you to join us in action.
As part of our Social Impact Summer Series, we revisit an interview with Vicki Crawford about her new edited book. Initially published last April, this commentary speaks to the events we are now witnessing both nationally and worldwide.
Although Thurman was committed to nonviolence, he most certainly understood the exasperation and outrage of Black people against police brutality and white supremacy. But Thurman’s signature response to moments of crisis, which were uncannily similar to our present crisis, focused on “the ‘inward center’ as the crucial arena where the issues would determine the destiny of his people.”
Sharing from the heart. No matter how helpless we may feel at this moment about systemic racism, we must keep pushing and believe that together goodness will triumph and that things will not be this way forever. No matter the circumstances, the work we do here at Morehouse is today even more relevant.
Riots have been a mainstay in American history. If we want them to stop, we must abolish the conditions that cause them.
Dr. Myrick-Harris discusses ongoing work to honor a legendary period in AUC history.
Dr. Kipton Jensen talks with the FRC about his new book on Thurman.
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What can we learn from the Jackson State protest of 1970 or the Howard University protest of 1989? As teachers and students retreat during the pandemic and campus discussions dissipate, a political science professor offers notes on two readings from his first-year seminar, "Politics and Protest."
Two black congressmen died within ten days of one another. The different reactions to these deaths underline the current nature of our politics.
In October 2019 a group of eight secondary school teachers from the German state of Saxony visited Morehouse College to learn more about the history of the institution and the role of HBCUs in the higher education landscape of the United States.
Last summer, several Morehouse College faculty traveled to India to teach science to monastic students as part of the Emory Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI). ETSI promotes dialogue between Western Science and Buddhist traditions. Morehouse faculty have participated with ETSI since 2015 and Dr. Sinead Younge of the Morehouse College Psychology Department reflects on her time with the program.
Morehouse College is the only historically black college or university dedicated to the development of men into leaders. Founded in 1867, Morehouse is a private liberal arts college boasting a 14:1 student to faculty ratio.
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