“It wasn’t just a rejection of Hillary Clinton. It was a rejection of consensus politics. Of half-measures and bipartisan breakfasts. In 2016, the center didn’t just hold—it disappeared.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Editorial
Bridging the Educational Divide: How HBCU Education Departments Can Support the 19 Million Sudanese Children Out of School
“We cannot remain institutions born of resistance and liberation, yet turn away when 19 million African children face an educational extinction. The same spirit that built classrooms in basements during Jim Crow must now help build virtual classrooms across refugee camps in East Africa. HBCUs were not created simply to uplift African America—they were built to uplift the African world. This is our legacy and our mandate.”
In a time of unimaginable loss, HBCUs can be a bridge—between continents, between cultures, and between children and their future. Continue reading
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
The Individual Joy & Institutional Disappointment Of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Nomination – And The Problematic Issue That Harvard & Yale Dominate The Supreme Court
“White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our ‘friend’ to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives, so that anything the black man does is never for his own good, never for his … Continue reading
Jury Duty: The Death Of Political Elections & Savior To Democracy
“I was raised to believe we all have a civic duty and a responsibility as Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our nation.” – Paul Cook What if you never saw another political television ad again? There is probably a joy running through your heart right now at just the thought. What if you had … Continue reading
Did African America Voting Homogeny Potentially Put Donald Trump In The White House?
“Do not put all your eggs in one basket.” These are not normal political days we are living in. It is almost impossible to note when was the last time two non-establishment candidates have had such a powerful presence in a presidential race. Perhaps not since Ross Perot, a Texas billionaire, ran as a third … Continue reading
This Woman’s Work: America (And The GOP) Needs Condoleezza Rice To Be The Nation’s Next President
By William A. Foster, IV Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don’t want to do and like it. – Harry S. Truman It seems almost comical that based on Harry Truman’s aforementioned quote that there has not been the potential for a woman president in the United States of America … Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Turns Two Years Old
By William A. Foster, IV There are no personal sympathies in politics. – Margaret Thatcher We have made it to year two. HBCU Politics, the younger sibling to HBCU Money, has been a long and hard road. It has made inroads, but we have yet to truly explore its potential. That if anything is what … Continue reading
None Of The Above: Why Non-Voters Are Important To The Political Process
By William A. Foster, IV “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” – James Bovard In the 1985 movie Brewster’s Millions, Richard Pryor’s character Montgomery Brewster attempts to spend $30 million in 30 days. As part of his spending spree he decides there is no … Continue reading
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