Low-income, Black and Brown neighborhoods across New York City have long had challenges to accessing quality food.  BLS Professor Regina Bernard-Carreno and her students traveled up and down New York state to find  quality food and they discovered how racial … Continue reading Food as History

When James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) wrote a poem called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” and his brother J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954) set it to music in 1900, they could not have known the spiritual would come to be known as … Continue reading Lift Every Voice and Sing!

Why is Black History Month the shortest month of the year?  Professor Lewin explains its not just a month, it’s a season!  #blackhistorymonth   Continue reading Its Black History Season!

#BaruchCollege #CUNY #BlackHistory Robert C. Weaver, the first President of Baruch College, was an economist with a longstanding commitment to racial justice. Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, making him the … Continue reading Baruch President S. David Wu on Baruch’s First President Robert C. Weaver

Jane Matilda Bolin, LL.B. (April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007) was the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association, and the first to join the New York … Continue reading A True Pioneer Judge Jane Matilda Bolin

by Malachi Davisdon BC ’22 The unity we saw in the various marches for Black Lives, between people of all races and classes, was profound. It  set in motion the historic voter turnout witnessed of the 2020 Presidential election.  All  … Continue reading Freedom Summer+

Black history month began through the intellectual work of Carter G. Woodson, along with countless other historians, essayists, political thinkers and community organizers. Woodson was a trained historian who received graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and Harvard.  Woodson … Continue reading Black History Month and Beyond