Why didn’t Dr. Dre give to an HBCU instead of to a wealthy university that does almost nothing for the black community?  Dr. Walter M.. Kimbrough speaks with Dr. Boyce Watkins     Click to Watch

by Antonio Ellis, Your Black World Over the past two decades, it is no secret that Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU’s) financial management has plummeted. For example, in the late 1990s, Morris Brown College experienced a mass amount of debt that resulted in its loss of accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 2002. During that ...

A hypothetical zebra.  Too black for the white kids, and too white for the inner city Black kids.  What is the station of the Black child who grows up in predominately white populated suburban areas? How do they develop a healthy racial identity? I grew up in Johnson County, a predominately white suburban area in Kansas.  For the first 14 ...

Walter Kimbrough, the 41 year-old president of Philander Smith College, speaks with Bakari Kitwana about the current state of Historically Black College and Universities. “HBCUs will be irrelevant without a revolution of leadership,” says Kimbrough, who shares success stories from his own experience as president for the last four years