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President Obama and the New Talented Tenth

Theodore Johnson | Posted 05.23.2013 | Black Voices
Theodore Johnson

Certainly, the name "Talented Tenth" carries baggage that may be insurmountable. It is rather difficult to redefine an infamous concept that has existed for nearly 120 years.

Obama Offers Special Message To LGBT Community At College Graduation

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 05.21.2013 | Gay Voices

President Barack Obama made sure that his speech during the spring 2013 commencement ceremony at Georgia's Morehouse College was inclusive. The At...

Obama's Morehouse Commencement Speech: Welcome to the Brotherhood

Nicolas B. Aziz | Posted 05.20.2013 | Black Voices
Nicolas B. Aziz

President Obama impeccably and eloquently made the connection between the role Morehouse has played in shaping today's world and the role it will play in shaping the future.

Obama To Grads: 'Help Those Who Need It Most'

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.20.2013 | College

ATLANTA -- President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically blac...

Barack Obama's Morehouse Moment

Jarrett L. Carter | Posted 05.20.2013 | Black Voices
Jarrett L. Carter

Barack Obama visited Morehouse College on Sunday to give a refrain on the responsibility of Morehouse Men and black America to find dignity and progress in self-reliance, a refrain that has simultaneously proven exciting and excruciating for African Americans over the last four years.

Obama to address Morehouse College commencement

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.20.2013 | Politics

BY DARLENE SUPERVILLE, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the h...

Obama Visit Shines Spotlight On Historically Black Colleges And Universities

AP | CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and JUSTIN POPE | Posted 05.18.2013 | Politics

ATLANTA — When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of his...

Father And Son Graduate Morehouse College Together

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Klein | Posted 05.16.2013 | Black Voices

When Dorian Joyner Jr.’s dad told him that he would soon be joining him at Morehouse College, the freshman thought it meant that his father would be...

Tom Joyner's Homophobic Message to the Black Community

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.16.2013 | Gay Voices
Irene Monroe

Incidents of rape always need to be called out, as Joyner did, and addressed immediately, but it shouldn't be brought to attention while denigrating a member of another minority group within the same population, as Joyner also did.

Lessons from a Bully

Write for the Future | Posted 05.13.2013 | College
Write for the Future

by Marquis Lockett Death is the only word that could explain the looks on their faces. I wanted to...

Will Obama Come Face To Face With Vocal Critic At Morehouse Graduation?

www.washingtonpost.com | Posted 05.03.2013 | Black Voices

A prominent, historically black men’s college in Atlanta is struggling to quell a controversy over what role a critic of President Obama will play i...

Missing: Leadership and Core Values

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.15.2013 | Politics
Marian Wright Edelman

Is this the best we have to pass on to our children and grandchildren and the next generation of leaders the nation and world need today and tomorrow? Do corporate profits from dangerous products or harmful practices trump children's security and safety in our nation?

Obama To Speak At Morehouse College Commencement

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 02.17.2013 | Black Voices

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A White House official says President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at all-male Morehouse College in Atla...

John Wilson Clouds Vision on 'Character Preeminence' for Morehouse

Jarrett L. Carter | Posted 04.04.2013 | Gay Voices
Jarrett L. Carter

Dr. Wilson's hire was strategically approved to accomplish two primary goals - to raise big money and to take the negative perception of gay students as far away from the Morehouse brand as possible. One of those things is possible.

Morehouse Offers LGBTQ Course: A Student's Perspective

Marcus Lee | Posted 03.06.2013 | Gay Voices
Marcus Lee

The psychic distance between tolerance and acceptance is congruent to the emotional difference between a bleak handshake and a brotherly hug... Tolerance is not enough, and there is no room for neutrality.

Morehouse College Launches LGBT Course, And More HBCU Highlights This Week

Posted 12.08.2012 | Black Voices

One of the nation's most prestigious black colleges gets a new president; two HBCUs step into a new future of online learning; and a historic foot...

Rodney Holcombe

College Republicans At Historically Black Colleges And Universities Struggle To Connect With Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Rodney Holcombe | Posted 11.20.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- When the TV networks announced that President Barack Obama had clinched Ohio and won a second term on election night, many college stude...

Benjamin E. Mays: Schoolmaster of the Civil Rights Movement

Christine A. Scheller | Posted 11.30.2012 | Religion
Christine A. Scheller

Martin Luther King Jr. didn't emerge on the civil rights scene fully formed but drew from a rich spiritual and intellectual heritage that he owed, in part, to his mentor, the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays.

Why The World Needs More Traveling Black Men

Nicolas B. Aziz | Posted 08.08.2012 | Black Voices
Nicolas B. Aziz

The reality is that many young African-American men only have the opportunity to travel the world by committing to fight for a country that hasn't always had a history of fighting for them.

Med School Establishes Endowed Chair In Sexuality and Religion

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 06.01.2012 | College

ATLANTA -- The Morehouse School of Medicine is creating what is being called the first endowed chair on sexuality and religion at a U.S. medical schoo...

A Queer Political History of Morehouse College: Reflections of My Friend Keiron

Charles Stephens | Posted 07.30.2012 | Gay Voices
Charles Stephens

When I meet the brilliant and courageous gay campus activists at Morehouse now, I'm certain I annoy them. I do it on purpose. With the zeal of a missionary and the honesty of a madman, I ask, "Have you heard of Keiron Williams?"

Morehouse, Martin And The Methodists

Rev. Jerry Campbell | Posted 06.20.2012 | Religion
Rev. Jerry Campbell

We must not betray the promise of America by continuing to turn a blind eye to the plight of the oppressed in our midst. It is up to us to take up the cause of social justice for which Dr. King and many others struggled.

The Julian Bond Philanthropy Song

Maxim Thorne | Posted 06.01.2012 | Politics
Maxim Thorne

Take a moment to enjoy the American philanthropic Julian Bond song for the success that it is. The lessons of his song will have great meaning in the civil rights and social justice movements of today.

Martin Luther King Jr. And The Educational Parity Revolution

John Silvanus Wilson Jr. | Posted 03.17.2012 | Home
John Silvanus Wilson Jr.

It is reasonable to speculate that Dr. King's deep concern about equity would have extended to American higher education. He would have recognized economic disparity as a common root of the challenges facing African-Americans, HBCUs and the American future itself.

Cain, Coulter, and Irresponsible Race Talk

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 01.04.2012 | Politics
Michael Fauntroy

The most notable damage has been done to Cain's campaign. While I never thought he had a serious chance of winning the Grand Old Party's presidential nomination, this pretty much seals the deal.