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Rutgers Hall of Fame Women’s Basketball Coach C. Vivian Stringer Retires After 50 Years
If “big shoes to fill” was a person, we’d be looking directly at C. Vivian Stringer, and her iconic career in women’s basketball spanning over 5 decades.
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Like Harvard and Others, Columbia University Will Publicly Mark Its Slavery Ties
The markers will be added to four residence halls acknowledging legacies of slavery and racism and also commemorating African America students
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Scholar, Mentor, Pioneer: Remembering Professor Cheryl A. Wall
“What does it mean for a black woman to work in the U.S. academy today?” This is the question longtime Rutgers University professor and author Cheryl A. Wall posed while introducing a panel of black female academics in 2009. It was a question central to Wall’s career and life’s work, as she strove to make…
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Rutgers University Gets Its First Black President
It’s been a good week for black history. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, last week it was announced that World War II hero Doris Miller would be honored by the U.S. Navy with an aircraft carrier named for him and on Sunday, school officials said that Dr. Jonathan Holloway, the provost of Northwestern…
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Don Imus Died…but Anyway, What Y’all Having for Breakfast?
When George Bush Sr. died, I posted to Facebook, “R.I.P. George… Jefferson.” I have a number of witty, inappropriate jokes saved in my phone for when David Duke or Eric Cartman’s absentee father, Rush Limbaugh, kick the bucket. I feel no obligation to be kind or respectful to bigots or those who have done harm…
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Research Confirms That ‘Black Don’t Crack’—and the Secret Is in Our Bones
Something strange has been happening lately; every time I’m out with my mother, without fail, someone asks in earnest if we are sisters. As a now 40-something, this is the type of occurrence that could potentially send one into a middle-aged emotional tailspin—but if you saw my mother, you’d know it’s impossible to be offended,…
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Sojourner Truth Was Enslaved by Family of Rutgers’ 1st President
Like many other colleges that are now being forced to atone for their past transgressions against people of color (Georgetown’s sale of slaves to save the college, UT Austin and its fawning relationship with Jefferson Davis, Yale and its buildings named for slaveholders), Rutgers University is also soberly looking at its not-so-pristine history. In a recently…