The Center for African & African American Studies Graduate Student Fellowship Program (aka the “CAAAS Grad Fellows Program”) provides support and scholarly community for University of Colorado Boulder ...

In the 20th century American South, many state parks were segregated, excluding Black Americans from participating in popular forms of outdoor recreation. Though the parks were desegregated thanks to ...

Robert Robinson Taylor, often recognized as the first African-American graduate of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was honored by the U.S. Postal Service, becoming the 38th ...

ST. CLOUD — How do most buildings on a college campus get their names? Typically, from generous donors. The story behind St. Cloud State University’s Ruby Cora Webster Hall is slightly different. It ...

Diverse Issues in Higher Education (DIHE) ranked Webster University first among all non-profit private and public institutions in the United States for the number of degrees awarded to ...

Julian Francis Abele, the first Black graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s architecture department, not only architecturally shaped Penn’s campus but also played an important role in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — The Historical Society of Marshall County will host Marshalltown Mayor Joel Greer to speak about the ...

PERFORMERS, AND TICKET PRICES. A SPECIAL IOWAN IS BEING HONORED THIS WEEK. EDITH RENFROW SMITH FROM GRINNELL IS TURNING 110 YEARS OLD. SHE WAS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO GRADUATE FROM GRINNELL COLLEGE ...

Gertrude Theresa Hodges, the first African American Johns Hopkins School of Nursing graduate, died of stroke complications March 28 at her East Baltimore home. She was 88. Mrs. Hodges also headed the ...

Davenport University’s Warren campus is hosting an exhibit highlighting the groundbreaking achievements of African Americans in medicine Feb. 24. The event, Dr. Anita Moncrease’s The Legacy of Black ...

Blackmon, an African American woman from Canton, Mississippi, who became the first Black student to graduate from the town’s all-white public school in 1966, remembers both the struggles and the small ...