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More than 50 years ago, Temple students flooded the North Philadelphia roads of Broad Street for hours to demand that the university be more responsive to African American issues. Their voices were heard. In 1971, Temple University established what eventually would become known as the Department of Africology and African American Studies, one of the first Black studies
One of Guyana’s greatest historians and educators, Sister Mary Noel Menezes, affectionately called Sister Menezes has passed away at the age of 95.Sr Menezes was a Roman Catholic nun belonging to the Order of the Sisters of Mercy.A trained historian,
George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and the impact on HE
On 25 September 2020, with little more than a month to go in the United States presidential election, and, no doubt, blind to the irony that he was speaking not far from the national historic landmark that had been the home of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King in Atlanta, Georgia, President Donald Trump delivered a blistering attack on America’s most visible and important civil rights organisation.
The president recycled many of the tropes from more than half a century ago used by racist politicians, such as George Wallace, who, upon becoming governor of Alabama in 1963, famously declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”, and J Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).