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.
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.
ATLANTA -- President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically blac...
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.
When Dorian Joyner Jr.ās dad told him that he would soon be joining him at Morehouse College, the freshman thought it meant that his father would be...
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.
A prominent, historically black menās college in Atlanta is struggling to quell a controversy over what role a critic of President Obama will play i...
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?
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- A White House official says President Barack Obama will deliver the commencement address at all-male Morehouse College in Atla...
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.
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.
WASHINGTON -- When the TV networks announced that President Barack Obama had clinched Ohio and won a second term on election night, many college stude...
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.
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.
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...
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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.