Ivory Toldson is leaving his post as executive director of the White House Initiative on HBCUs. Deputy Undersecretary of Education Kim Hunter Reed will serve as acting executive director.

Dr. Ivory Toldson (pictured), deputy director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), was in Memphis Thursday to speak at LeMoyne-Owen College. Dr. Toldson kicked off SchoolSeed‘s speakers series, an organization that serves as a fiscal agent for the $90 million educational grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation […]

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A recent study released by the Crime and Delinquency journal claiming that 50 percent of Black men in the United States have been arrested by the age of 23 caused an online storm as conversations about Stop-and-Frisk and racial profiling escalated into contentious debates. RELATED: Study: Half Of African-American Males Arrested By Age 23 As previously reported by […]