College commencement speakers often encourage students to soar to new heights. One scheduled speaker has done so literally. Morris Brown College announced Monday that the “Human Highlight Film,” retired Atlanta Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins, will give its commencement speech next month. The ceremony is scheduled for May 18, 4 p.m. at Big Bethel AME Church...Read More
College commencement speakers often encourage students to soar to new heights. One scheduled speaker has done so literally. Morris Brown College announced Monday that the “Human Highlight Film,” retired Atlanta Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins, will give its commencement speech next month. The ceremony is scheduled for May 18, 4 p.m. at Big Bethel AME Church...Read More
College commencement speakers often encourage students to soar to new heights. One scheduled speaker has done so literally. Morris Brown College announced Monday that the “Human Highlight Film,” retired Atlanta Hawks legend Dominique Wilkins, will give its commencement speech next month. The ceremony is scheduled for May 18, 4 p.m. at Big Bethel AME Church...Read More
The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has selected the next cohort of mid-career aspiring leaders for the second MSI Aspiring Leaders Forum. Dr. Marybeth Gasman The forum, slated for Nov. 1-3, will include a range of sessions such as fiscal management, strategic fundraising,...Read More
Back then, when the photo was taken, Morris Brown College’s Fountain Hall was covered in ivy. All of the women pictured, teachers and wives of men affiliated with Atlanta University, wore white shirts. The men — including scholar, writer and activist W.E.B. Du Bois, who is almost hidden on the back row — were in...Read More
Today, Dr. Kevin James, interim president of Morris Brown College, explains the challenges the school faces and how the federal Opportunity Zone could help. The AJC’s Eric Stirgus outlined those challenges in a story in March, writing: Atlanta-based Morris Brown College’s new leader is working on a plan to regain its accreditation, more than a...Read More
Despite the foul weather last Tuesday, I joined maybe three dozen others on the vacant campus of Morris Brown College. We were all there standing in front of the historic Fountain Hall on the campus waiting for the unveiling of a new piece of public art for the university. The piece would be – a...Read More
Fountain Hall, the historic tower owned by Morris Brown College, has received an important $75,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In all, the National Trust announced Friday morning it was awarding a total of $1.6 million to 22 sites and organizations through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund. Brent Leggs, executive...Read More
Squirrels roam college building where W.E.B Du Bois penned classic “The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men...Read More
Atlanta historian Karcheik Sims-Alvarado always treasured a black-and-white photograph of W.E.B. DuBois and the faculty of then Atlanta University. Last month, she unveiled a life-sized cutout version of the photo in front of Fountain Hall, where the noted historian and activist penned “The Souls of Black Folks.” Tonight, Fountain Hall, which sits on what is...Read More
