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HBCUs produce 25% of all the African American graduates with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics degrees. In the last 10-years, there has been a perpetual decline in graduate student enrollment and retention rates at a certain HBCU’s graduate school. Therefore, thi…

The primary aim of this research study is to explore the leadership narratives of Black female HBCU presidents who received their undergraduate degree from the institution that they presently serve. Using qualitative research methods, two Black female HBCU presidents served as t…

This dissertation challenges the perception of North Carolina as a racially progressive state by focusing on the experiences of Black student activists at HBCUs from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. While scholars have interrogated and critiqued North Carolina’s racial progressiv…

The literature suggests that Black women are perhaps the most disenfranchised breastfeeding group in the nation. Black mothers lag all other races in breastfeeding initiation, continuation, and exclusivity due to a myriad of historical and modern-day socio-cultural barriers. Imp…

This qualitative case study examined 10 Spelman College’s students’ attitude toward its new transgender admissions and enrollment policy, as well as their attitudes toward Spelman’s transgender and gender non-conforming students. This study was guided by Allport’s (1935) Tricomp…

Historically, African Americans have had difficulty finding spaces to call their own. Spaces where they feel safe, wanted, and free from any external judgement. In particular, throughout history and continuing today, African Americans have sought spaces where they feel free from…