Bronx High School Students Join Fordham Class for a Day
Sixty students from the Bronx’s Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School joined Fordham professor Mark…
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New Book Captures Spirit of the Bronx at its Best
The publication this week of Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life…
Summer Reading: Some Faculty Recommendations
With summer upon us, it’s the time to kick back and pick up a book—not…
Video: A Tennis Match for Charity
In a match of true champions, Fordham University senior offensive lineman and team co-captain Garrick Mayweather, Jr.,…
Hip-Hop Throwback: Kurtis Blow Sells Out the McGinley Center
Clap your hands everybody / If you got what it takes / ‘Cause I’m Kurtis…
Black History: Bronx Diversity Molds a Civil Rights Champion
Vincent Harding was proud to be from New York, and as he got older he…
Bronx Black History Archives Open to Public
The stories of hundreds of Bronx African Americans who have transformed the borough’s character since…
Groundbreaking Book on Urban Struggle Gets New Life in Updated Version
When it was first published in 1993, Greg Donaldson’s book The Ville, was lauded by…
University Mourns Passing of Founding Member of African-American Studies Department
Quinton Bernard Wilkes, Ph.D., GSAS ‘69, ’77, a founding member of Fordham’s Department of African…
Say What? Fordham Professor Co-Founds Teachers’ Activist Group
An education activist group co-founded by Fordham professor Mark Naison, Ph.D., is growing by leaps…