By Deborah BaileySpecial to the AFRO Week two of the remedial phase of the Maryland Higher Education Desegregation Trial, as the case is popularly known, featured the testimony of Dr. Earl Richardson, former president of Morgan State University and the man credited by many with transforming Maryland’s designated public urban university and the state’s largest […]
Category: HBCU
HBCUs Make Their Pitch to Next Generation
Jordan Johnson is a senior at the School Without Walls High School in the Northwest quadrant of the District of Columbia and like many seniors; she is looking forward to attending college. Jordan has opted to attend a historically Black college and university (HBCU), and is proud of her decision to do so. Jordan Johnson […]
Haynes Champions the Need for HBCUs
Dr. Leonard Haynes is the senior director for Institutional Service at the Department of Education. (Photo Courtesy of Dept. of Education) For Black History Month, the AFRO presents a series of articles highlighting important local heroes from the community. This week we sit with Leonard Haynes III, a man who has devoted his life to […]

