The Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys (CSSBMB), led by Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson, met on July 27, 2023, in Washington, D.C., to begin discussing what
Five years before Brown v. Board of Education desegregated public schools in the south, Herman Barnett was accepted to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), a historically Black university (HBCU) in New Orleans recently announced it will establish its own College of Medicine. XULA, along with Howard University, sends the most Black students to medical school, the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education reported. The fifth ranking HBCU according to U.S. News and World Reports, […]
Andrea Hayes Dixon, M.D., FACS, FAAP is now the first Black woman to be appointed as Dean of Howard University College of Medicine (HUCM). After the announcement of her appointment was made on Sept. 22 by Howard University’s newsletter, The Dig, Hayes Dixon officially began her role on Oct. 3 as the new dean of […]