by corneliuscorps | Mar 20, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
The ongoing weaponization of DEI continues to pose dangers to our ability to learn the history of our nation and the contributions of a wide variety of people who are not white males. This past week, we learned that the Department of Defense employs an algorithm that...
by corneliuscorps | Mar 13, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
This month marks the 60th anniversary of some of the famous and momentous events in the Selma civil rights campaign of 1965. This week I want to highlight a lesser known but equally momentous event in Selma a couple of months before that helped to set the stage for...
by corneliuscorps | Mar 6, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
This week on March 7 marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most famous and tragic events of the modern Civil Rights Movement. On that day in 1965 in Selma, AL, non-violent marchers were savagely beaten by Alabama State Troopers as they attempted to cross the Edmund...
by corneliuscorps | Feb 27, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
“The End of Black History Month” takes on two very different meanings this year. On the one hand it is a simple fact. Friday of this week marks the end of Black History Month for 2025. Yet the need for teaching and learning Black history does not end with...
by corneliuscorps | Feb 20, 2025 | 2025, Weekly Reflection
Sixty five years ago this month, four freshmen at North Carolina A&T sat-in at the Woolworth’s Lunch Counter in Greensboro, NC. The young Black men had purchased items in the store and wanted to be served at the racially segregated lunch counter. After being...
