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After a summer of white women calling the police on black people cooking out; black children selling water; and black children mowing lawns to earn money—fall is here and a fresh, new crop of racism has already made its insidious way into our classrooms and college campuses.
Don’t get me wrong. I value my higher education. I empathize with our colleges and universities. They have weathered significant cuts on both the state and federal levels over the years, but we cannot bury our heads in the sand while continuing to pass the burden on to students. We have to restore state and federal funding for higher education to help institutions lower costs for students.
Some reasons for the decline include inadequate college preparation from grades K-12, a lack of Black male teachers, and financial barriers both from the prospective students and the HBCU institutions themselves.
A 15-year-old teenager from Hendersonville, TN has made history by becoming the youngest student to attend Clark Atlanta University.
