This award recognizes outstanding contributions to students, faculty and to Edgewood College across multiple aspects of multicultural education. Dr. Taylor’s work in multicultural awareness, inclusion and honoring of diversity in the workplace and the world was noted in the citation. “Dr. Taylor’s efforts to provide a laboratory for engagement in an intersectional analysis of race, […]
The purpose of this article is to encourage colleges to integrate this cultural holiday into their student activity calendars, thus allowing all students to experience this unique celebration. The celebration works well in residence halls and with student organizations taking the lead. What is Kwanzaa? Kwanzaa (KWAHN-zah) is a seven day African American cultural holiday, […]
Next May, 2017 I will officially step down as a professor in the School of Education’s doctoral program. While it has been a great ride, I’m looking forward to working on projects that I’ve put on hold and slowing my pace from this hectic schedule I’ve been maintaining over the years. I’m already committed to […]
I have been blessed to help a large religious organization with churches throughout the U.S. and overseas answer that question and embrace diversity, inclusion and equity as a core value. My team and I are challenging them to use it as a guiding question and rationale as they travel down the diversity assessment road. Every […]
According to Marilyn Ruffin-the President and founder of this 22 year-old African American Black Women’s Book club: Sisters with Books, I will be the first male author they’ve ever invited to discuss his book. As long as I don’t screw it up, this could open up the doors for the next male, in about 15 years-just […]
I was invited to give the keynote address on 7/23/16 at the reunion of blacks and whites who grew up in Smelterville, the poorest section in my hometown of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I don’t know of any other poverty stricken place in America that has produced a greater success rate of African American men and […]
I was asked to write a brief article on invisible Black History, that many call suppressed Black history, because it has been deliberately concealed and squelched for centuries. Dr. James Loewen calls it deliberate lies in his outstanding book: Lies my Teacher Told Me. The good news is that the emerging scholarship of recent years is beginning […]
When this pandemic is overWhat will we become?A nation that cares for everyoneOr a country that only cares for some Will we provide health care for all?A job that provides a livable wageAccess to healthy food and shelterOr everyone on their own, even in old age Will we address inequality?And all the other ismsOr will […]
How did this country arrive at the point where we have such systemic racial inequality today? Increasingly historians are claiming it’s a result of the NADIR. The nadir means lowest point, rock bottom-the depths of despair. It describes the years between 1877 to at least 1940. Yes, the legacy of slavery plays a significant role […]
Juneteenth-June 19, 1865, the oldest African American celebration in the U.S. is considered the date when the last enslaved Blacks in America were freed, almost two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When General George Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, one can imagine the joy in the hearts of […]
