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Morehouse Alumnus Dr. F. DuBois Bowman Named 13th President of His Alma Mater

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He has launched initiatives addressing pressing health challenges including firearm injury prevention, health equity, and infectious disease control. he is a two-time Morehouse parent with one son who graduated in 2024 and another currently enrolled. Bowman's connections to Morehouse run deep.

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Uplifting BIPOC-Centered Mental Health Research With the 2024 Emerging Scholars

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Active Minds is proud to introduce our 2024 Emerging Scholars Fellows! Active Minds is excited to be able to facilitate change by supporting our fellows through funding, mentorship, and amplification. Asli McCullers Project HeartHEAL (Health, Equity, and Love) Asli McCullers is a first-year Ph.D.

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Ariella Robbins, Villanova University

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Ariella Robbins is Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Villanova University, a post she has held since November 2024. Robbins also established Employee Resource Groups to provide support and engagement to faculty and staff.

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

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It's one of the new offerings coordinated by the National Education Equity Lab, an educational justice nonprofit that brings credit-bearing college courses into Title I and Title I-eligible high schools, at which large numbers of students come from families with little money. More partnerships are currently being explored.

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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures

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NEW YORK – At the National Action Network (NAN) Convention in New York City, social justice leaders gathered to discuss the impact of anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) legislation introduced or signed into law in states like Texas, Florida, and Alabama. We’re in the fight of our lives with this election.”

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

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I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. To problem-solving? · An Equity Pedagogy.

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Kudos to Black/Diverse Issues for Four Decades of Truth, Insight, Vision, and Integrity

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Partly because conservatives were successful in assigning negative implications to the term “affirmative action,” the expression diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) came into use to describe and facilitate processes that resulted in greater access and participation for people from marginalized communities. Dr. William B.