Before he was the Father of Malawi, Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a young African scholar crossing the red clay paths of Central State University in Ohio and later walking the white-pillared corridors of Meharry Medical College in Tennessee. It was in those Black institutions—far from colonial Nyasaland—that he found the intellectual courage and cultural clarity to imagine an independent African state governed by its own people. Banda didn’t just earn degrees at HBCUs; he absorbed a vision. A vision where Black institutions were sovereign, where education was a weapon, and where leadership was forged in community, not conquest. His presidency in Malawi would later reflect both the power and pitfalls of that vision. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: May 2025
Multiculturalism And Diversity Are Still Viewed From An Eurocentric Majority
In the age of DEI dashboards and performative allyship, too few are asking the most important question: Who still owns the room? The uncomfortable truth is that diversity has been curated—not constructed—for African Americans, offering symbolic inclusion while preserving Euro-American institutional dominance. When MAGA-era politics rolled back DEI initiatives with surgical precision, what was revealed was not just political hostility, but structural fragility. DEI collapsed not because it was too radical, but because it was never rooted in Black institutional power. As African Americans, we must confront a painful irony—we have often celebrated access to systems that still view our presence as peripheral. Pan-Africanism demands more. Not a seat at the table. Ownership of the table. Redesign of the room. And the authority to define the very terms of what justice, equity, and inclusion mean for us. Until then, multiculturalism remains a house built on someone else’s foundation—and the door is never truly ours to open. Continue reading
Without Control of the Governor’s Office, Public HBCUs Will Always Be in Danger
“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” – Robert A. Heinlein On the leafy campus of Fort Valley State University, a public historically Black college nestled in the heart of Georgia’s agricultural belt, students move between … Continue reading
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