The Storm Inside the Shelter: Assessing the Past, Present, and Future of Advocacy and Activism at HBCUs

Jelani M. Favors is United Negro College Fund Vice President and Senior Director of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, and formerly the Henry E. Frye distinguished professor of history, and inaugural director of the Center of Excellence for Social Justice at North Carolina A&T State University. (NC A&T). Dr. Favors’ publications include Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership & Activism, a book which focuses on the prominent role of HBCUs as essential institutions for the African American community, fostering what he calls a “second curriculum” which has shaped the political destiny of the United States. He is also author of a chapter in the forthcoming book Youth Voting Rights: Civil Rights, the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, and the Fight for American Democracy on College Campuses which emerged from a Network Collaborative Course between Bard and NC A&T in which he co-taught, entitled Student Voting: Power, Politics and Race in the Fight for American Democracy.
 
The talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement, OEI, Brothers@Bard, the Hannah Arendt Center, and Africana Studies.