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Yale University will be teaching a course centering Beyoncé. NBC News reports the university will be offering a course titled, “Beyonce Makes History: Black Radical Tradition History, Culture, Theory & Politics Through Music.” Provided for the 2025 spring semester, it will be taught by Daphne Brooks, a professor of African American Studies and music who also leads Yale’s Black Sound & the Archive Working Group, a 320 York Humanities Initiative. An official release from the university states that students will examine the time period between 2013 and 2024 to look into the singer’s works, with the goal “to study Black history, intellectual thought, and performance.” “I’m looking forward to exploring her body of work and considering how, among other things, historical memory, Black feminist politics, Black liberation politics and philosophies course through the last decade of her performance repertoire as well as the ways that her unprecedented experimentations with the album form,...
Black Americans were short-changed amidst a promising time for refinancing home loans. According to Bloomberg’s analysis of federal mortgage data, Wells Fargo rejected nearly half of Black applicants who were looking to refinance their homes. Worsening matters, the banking giant approved applications for more lower-income white applications than the highest-earning Black applicants. Engineer Mauise Ricard III experienced Wells Fargo’s rejection firsthand after paying $560.43 to refinance his home in the suburbs of Atlanta. Richard was married to a doctor and had a credit score boasting over 800. The loan officer affirmed he could qualify for a fast-track appraisal. Yet, what should have been a clear green light turned into a string of issues. Bloomberg reports, Richard’s former home was in a predominantly Black neighborhood and he was told by the loan officer “perhaps the area is not eligible” for fast-track appraisal. Later, the loan officer told Richard his rate would increase by...
Since the Black Lives Matter Movement began to create new dialogues on race relations around the country, higher education has been at the forefront of a lot of the conversations for change. Princeton University is the most recent institution to change the narrative. The Ivy League university announced — this week — that it has received a donation from alumna, Mellody Hobson. They also revealed the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation is set to help convert Wilson College into Hobson College, making it the first-ever new residential college named after a Black woman in the university’s history. Hobson is the president and Co-CEO of the country’s first minority-owned asset management firm, Ariel Investments. She is also the former chairwoman of DreamWorks Animation and according to The Daily Princetonian , in 2017 she became the first Black woman to lead The Economic Club of Chicago. “No one from my family had graduated from college when I arrived at Princeton from Chicago,” said Hobson in...
Black excellence is shining through the community even during a global pandemic. Although educational institutions across the country have temporarily closed, online learning has become the new method for teaching students. Even while following stay-at-home guidelines and social distancing practices, students can still get a quality education from distinguished schools and universities online to prep them for their futures. This summer, the prestigious programs for young Black girls and boys previously held at Princeton University have been canceled. Now, Jacqueline Glass-Campbell, CEO of At the Well Conferences, Inc., is introducing these two celebrated programs through her organization to provide a remote enrichment experience for students. #AllInTogether, a movement led by Rev. Toby Sanders for young Black men, was started to produce more Black male leaders in business, the arts, social justice, and science. It was also meant to instill values that will equip them to address...