Today, our community celebrates the formal installation of President Ben Vinson III, Ph.D. as the 18th president of Howard University. Watch the Inauguration Convocation via livestream. #HowardPres18 https://t.co/mmcTLey5Nh
Georgetown University and the Jesuits are donating $27 million to descendants of enslaved people sold in 1838! The 272 enslaved people were sold from Jesuit plantations. Today, the school plans to donate over $1 billion to support anti-racism efforts! https://t.co/aChaTBp245
#Juneteenth commemorates the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached enslaved Black people in Texas on June 19, 1865, effectively ending slavery in the U.S.
May we reflect on all of the progress we have made and recommit ourselves to the work ahead.
EXCITED: Last year I became a contributor to @Britannica My first entry — about #juneteenth — is now live on the homepage. This feels like a full-circle moment because encyclopedias were so important to me as a child. https://t.co/0dW0KEA918
The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson | Columbia University Press https://t.co/89UFw7N9zm via @ColumbiaUP
The Lab would like to extend an extremely warm congratulations to @fhi_duke Humanities Unbounded Fellow Dr. @GayByron for receiving an NEH Faculty Award with their work "Hidden in Plain Sight: Ethiopic Manuscripts and Early Christianity!"
BREAKING: Buffalo Bills Damar Hamlin passes out after making a tackle in the Bills vs Bengals game… A very scary site as both teams are gathered around him in prayer right now.. https://t.co/qVi3bGQ2om
Whatever truth Tim Scott tried to offer in his speech last night is negated by the ridiculous false assertion that “America is not a racist nation.” No credibility with a statement like that. Individual exceptionalism can never be a basis for public policy.