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Breaking Barriers: CEO Sharif El-Mekki Honored with Dr. Asa G. Hilliard Model of Excellence Award
We are thrilled to congratulate Sharif El- Mekki on being honored with the Dr. Asa G. Hilliard Model of Excellence Award. This prestigious recognition celebrates El-Mekki’s outstanding contribution to the diversification of the Black Teacher Pipeline. His tireless efforts through the Center for Black Educators Development…
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Registration for the 2025 HBCU Conference Is Now Open!
Take Part in Critical Conversations College Board is excited to head to Los Angeles from March 5-7, 2025, for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Conference. Make plans to join us for learning, collaboration, and inspiration. The planning committee is hard at work bringing the 2025 event to life, and we…
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry
A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry Throughout history, the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue. In daily life, it is evoked in countless ways. Blue skies and blue…
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Omar Victor Diop by Renee Mussai, Imani Perry, and Marvin Adoul
Eloquent portraits and self-portraits by a contemporary African studio photographer that expand on the tradition of Malick Sedibé and Seydou Keita Since 2012, Dakar-born Omar Victor Diop has been hailed by the art world for his stunning, color-saturated studio photography. His conceptual projects are primarily staged as…
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Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
2020 Chautauqua Prize Finalist 2020 NAACP Image Award Nominee - Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) Best-of Lists: Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 (Kirkus Reviews) · 25 Can't-Miss Books of 2019 (The Undefeated) Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it…
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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem by Imani Perry
The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part of that story. With lyrics penned by James Weldon Johnson and music composed by his brother Rosamond, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was embraced almost immediately as an anthem…
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Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation by Imani Perry
Even as feminism has become increasingly central to our ideas about institutions, relationships, and everyday life, the term used to diagnose the problem—“patriarchy”—is used so loosely that it has lost its meaning. In Vexy Thing Imani Perry resurrects patriarchy as a target of critique, recentering it to contemporary…
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More Beautiful and More Terrible The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the US
Perry argues that racism in America has moved into a new phase--post-intentional For a nation that often optimistically claims to be post-racial, we are still mired in the practices of racial inequality that plays out in law, policy, and in our local communities. One of two explanations is often given for this persistent…
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Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop by Imani Perry
At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here: criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through…
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"Conferences that Grow our Community": Special Edition of Coordinated Podcast
Coordinated with Derek and Karli Check out this special edition of the podcast made for AP coordinators where Ismael Ayala, Director of Event Planning at College Board, join hosts Derek Kameda and Karli Tsuge to talk about the 2025 Advocacy and Access conferences. Listen and check out other episodes:
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A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain by Imani Perry
Imani Perry's Audible Original A Dangerously High Threshold for Pain tells the dramatic story of her ongoing struggle with lupus―an autoimmune disease that attacks multiple organ systems―and what we can all learn from those who are grappling with chronic illness. It's a powerful and poetic story that evokes the works of…
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.” —Isabel Wilkerson An essential, surprising…
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most…
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Real Talk: Illuminating the Path for Black Students
From All Access: Real Talk: Illuminating the Path for Black StudentsChris Villanueva April 3, 2024 As Dr. Autumn Caviness stands at the podium at the 2024 A Dream Deferred™ conference, the words “We empower all students to take the right first step” are projected behind her. It’s a full house. Nearly every seat is occupied…
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Interview with Anthony Jones: Shaping the Future of Education
Anthony “AJ” Jones is vice president of Enrollment Management & The Student Experience at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Fla.; chair of the 2024 HBCU Conference National Advisory Committee; and a College Board Trustee. In this exclusive Q&A session, we delve into the remarkable journey and visionary…
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MAAP - Mapping the African American Past
Mapping the African American Past (MAAP) is a public website created to enhance the appreciation and study of significant sites and moments in the history of African Americans in New York from the early 17th-century through the recent past. The website is a geographic learning environment, enabling students, teachers, and…
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The New York African Free School Collection
A digital archive contains a wide selection of drawings, essays, and other work by African Free School students. https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/index.html
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Black Gotham Archive
The goal of The Black Gotham Digital Archive is to link an interactive web site with the geographical spaces of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn to create a deeper understanding of black life in nineteenth-century New York City
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Somewhat More Independent: The End of Slavery In New York City
Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources―census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and courtroom testimony―to reconstruct the content and context of the slave's world in New York and its environs during the revolutionary and early republic periods. White explores,…
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Brooklyn’s Promised Land
Tells the riveting narrative of the growth, disappearance, and eventual rediscovery of one of the largest free black communities of the nineteenth century In 1966 a group of students, Boy Scouts, and local citizens rediscovered all that remained of a then virtually unknown community called Weeksville: four frame houses on…