A Brief History of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Before King and after Kamala

About

The celebration of Black History Month takes place annually in October in the United Kingdom. Each year the month focuses on acknowledging and commemorating the history, contributions, achievements, and resilience of Black people.

As part of this celebration, we will be hosting Before King and after Kamala online, presented by Dr Tiffany R Holloman.

In the US, there exist around 100 unique higher education institutions called Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).  Most starting out as schools, these institutions had an early collective mission of educating the Black population in the US due to discriminatory regulations that demanded, ‘separate but equal’ facilities for educating the US population.

Producing academic pillars such as W.E.B Dubois and Anna Julia Cooper, Civil Rights icons such as Pauli Murray and Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and global phenomenon's such as Kwame Nkrumah, Oprah Winfrey, and Vice-President Kamala Harris, and Shaun King, HBCUs continue to resonate with students today who seek today a certain cultural acceptance alongside their academic pursuits.

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About the speaker: Dr Tiffany R Holloman

Tiffany is the project manager for Brad-ATTAIN and YCEDE in the Centre for Inclusion and Diversity at the University of Bradford.  She is co-founder and co-director of Same Skies Think Tank, a regional democracy think tank and network in West Yorkshire, UK.

Her sociological research examines race and higher education in the UK and US, and her historical research investigates King James VI&I in Early Modern Britain.  She is the author of several articles, chapters, as well as a co-editor of two books. Her activism stems from a desire to work with community members in the elevation of human development. She is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.