By Todd Steven Burroughs NEWARK SYMPHONY HALL was, at best, half full Thursday night for the funeral of Kenneth Gibson, whose full surname will always be Newark’s first African-American mayor and the first Black mayor of a major northeastern city. It was packed for Amiri Baraka, but that was five years ago. Cinco years is…
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Pictured above: Members of the Rutgers University Black Organization of Students (BOS) unfurl a banner renaming Rutgers-Newark’s Conklin Hall in February of 1969. A little less than two years after the Newark rebellion of July 1967 and months before Fred Hampton’s assassination in December of 1969, Black student activists took over Conklin Hall at Rutgers-Newark….
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Are Historically Black Colleges and Universities understood? Do HBCUs foster Black unity and radicalism or conservative acceptance of and adherence to establishment whims? What was the role of the HBCU historically versus today? We talked about this and much more with Dr. Jelani Favors whose new book: Shelter in a Time of Storm How Black…
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