Funding is the Matter

I will be back on January 23, 2023. 

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Dr. Akilah R. Carter-Francique (Ph.D., University of Georgia) joins Benedict College in the fall of 2022 as the Dean of the School of Education, Health and Human Services. With 20 years of experience in higher education, an extensive research background, and a strong vision for leadership in the field of education, Carter-Francique has served sporting spaces and centered experiences of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). 

Carter-Francique examines issues of race, gender, and social class and their intersections with sport, education, and society. She has presented at regional, national, and international conferences and written several articles and book chapters across academic disciplines including being the co-editor of Athletic Experience at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Past, Present, and Persistence and Critical Race Theory: Black Athletic Experiences in the United States.

Prior to her appointment to Benedict College, she served as the Executive Director for the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society, and Social Change (ISSSSC) at San Jose State University which birthed her co-organization with the Wall of Song Project. Carter-Francique also serves as a research council member with Laureus “Sport for Good”; an academic advisory council member for Athlete Voices; an editorial board member for the Journal of Issues in Intercollegiate Athletics; and, in 2018-2019 she served as the President of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS). Carter-Francique is the co-founder and CEO of Francique Sport and Education Consulting.  

Twitter: @doctafrancique
Instagram: @doctafrancique

Bio: Joseph N. Cooper is the inaugural Dr. J. Keith Motley Endowed Chair of Sports Leadership and Administration at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston. Prior to UMass Boston, Cooper served as an associate professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn) in the Sport Management program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Neag School of Education. Cooper earned his undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Recreation Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), master's degree in Sports Administration in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science from UNC-CH, and a doctorate in Kinesiology with a concentration in Sport Management and Policy from the University of Georgia (Athens, GA). His research agenda focuses on the intersection between sport, education, race, and culture with an emphasis on sports involvement as a catalyst for holistic development. He is also the faculty founder of Collective Uplift (CU), an organization designed to educate, empower, inspire, and support individuals to maximize their holistic potential both within and beyond athletic contexts. He has presented research at international, national, and regional conferences and published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, edited books, and op-ed contributions. As a result of his research, he has been cited in various media outlets including the New York Times, Boston Globe, ESPN, Le Monde, ABC News, Yahoo, and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. He is the author of From Exploitation Back to Empowerment: Black Male Holistic (Under)Development Through Sport and (Mis)Education (Peter Lang).

Find Dr. Joseph N. Cooper on Twitter: @JNCoop05 

Bio:  Chimi Boyd-Keyes, Founder and CEO of CBK Enterprises. Based in North Carolina, CBK Enterprises is an intersectional for-profit consulting firm that focuses on racial and gender equity for all organizations and with particular expertise in training, strategic planning, and assessment of gender-based violence advocacy organizations. The motto for CBK Enterprises is “cultivating safe, inclusive environments through innovation and collaboration.’ We have existed since 2010 and have always had diversity, inclusion, and equity as our central focus. We believe in connecting individuals to community goals so that they see that our work is bound together. When a community is elevated, every individual benefits. We are a team of dedicated staff who wish to enhance their services to all members of the community by taking an intentional approach toward equity, inclusiveness, anti-oppression, and anti-racism.

Link to Website: https://chimi.biz/ 

BIO: Dr. Steve D. Mobley Jr. is an associate professor of higher education and student affairs in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy in the School of Education and Urban Studies at Morgan State University. His scholarship focuses on the contemporary placement of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Particularly, Dr. Mobley Jr.’s research underscores the understudied facets of HBCU communities including issues surrounding race, social class, and student sexuality. He earned his bachelor’s in communication and culture from Howard University. Upon graduating from Howard, he completed his master’s in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania and earned his Ph.D. in higher education from the University of Maryland.

Articles from interview

1. Mobley Jr, S. D., & Johnson, J. M. (2019). No pumps allowed”: The “problem” with gender expression and the Morehouse College “appropriate attire policy. Journal of Homosexuality, 66(7), 867-895.

2. Mobley Jr, S. D., & Hall, L. (2020). (Re) defining queer and trans* student retention and “success” at historically black colleges and universities. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 21(4), 497-519.

3. Nguyen, T. H., Samayoa, A. C., Gasman, M., & Mobley Jr, S. (2018). Challenging respectability: Student health directors providing services to lesbian and gay students at historically Black colleges and universities. Teachers College Record, 120(2), 1-44.

4. Squire, D. D., & Mobley, S. D. (2015). Negotiating race and sexual orientation in the college choice process of Black gay males. The Urban Review, 47(3), 466-491.

Bio: Dr. Kendric Coleman received his Ph.D. at Lousiana State University. His research interests challenge the assumptions that undergird the constructions of race and gender politics through interdisciplinary interrogation. Because of these interests, he enjoys teaching courses concerning Contemporary African American Literature, Introduction to African American Studies, and 20th Century American Literature. He has presented and published on topics that include masculinity and the Black male experience in American literature, black women writers, and identity and sexuality. He was the recipient of the "African American Studies Teacher of the Year in 2015". His teaching philosophy centers around learning for life: "A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson." -Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Articles from the interview:

1. Coleman, K. (2016). The difference safe spaces make: The obstacles and rewards of fostering support for the LGBT community at HBCUs. SAGE Open, 6(2), 2158244016647423.

2. Lenning, E. (2017). Unapologetically queer in unapologetically Black spaces: Creating an inclusive HBCU campus. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, 39, 283-293.

3.  Mobley Jr, S. D., & Johnson, J. M. (2015). The role of HBCUs in addressing the unique needs of LGBT students. New Directions for Higher Education, 2015(170), 79-89.

4. Squire, D. D., & Mobley, S. D. (2015). Negotiating race and sexual orientation in the college choice process of Black gay males. The Urban Review, 47(3), 466-491.

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Bio: Dr. William Darity Jr., also known as Sandy Darity, is the Samuel DuBois (pronounced Dew Boys) Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics, and Business and director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. Over the course of his academic career, his research has focused on the topics of racial and ethnic economic inequality and reparative justice. He launched the field of stratification economics in 2005. His 2020 award-winning publication, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, was coauthored with A. Kirsten Mullen.

Get his book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century  (at the following link: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671208/from-here-to-equality-second-edition/)

Articles from this conversation:
1. The True Cost of Closing the Racial Wealth Gap  (Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/30/business/racial-wealth-gap.html)
2. Darity Jr., W. Running the Numbers on Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, 2020.
3. Darity Jr., W., Mullen, A.K., Slaughter, M. “The Cumulative Costs of Racism and the Bill for Black Reparations” Journal of Economic Perspectives 36:2 Spring 2022 pp.99-122.

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Bio: Jelani M Favors is the author of the national award-winning and highly acclaimed book “Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism”. He has joined the A&T  faculty as the Henry E. Frye Distinguished Professor.

Find his book at the following links: 

• https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661445/shelter-in-a-time-of-storm/
• https://www.scuppernongbooks.com/book/9781469661445 (independent bookstore) 
• https://www.esowonbookstore.com/book/9781469648330 (Black owned) 

Get in touch with Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown at the following link:
https://www.lindabeatricebrownauthor.com/

Get Dr. Linda Beatrice Brown's book at the following links below:

https://www.amazon.com/Belles-Liberty-Bennett-College-Movement/dp/0988893703

https://www.scuppernongbooks.com/book/9780988893702



Bio: Linda Beatrice Brown is the retired Willa B. Player Professor of African American Literature and the Humanities at Bennett College. She is the author of seven published books, three novels, numerous poems, and essays; and her two books of non-fiction are about Bennett College and the sit-ins. Her book Belles of Liberty grew out of her lifelong decision to speak out for justice and to teach subjects that would further the cause of racial liberation. She is a frequent lecturer on topics related to social justice.

 Linda took part in the Greensboro sit-ins along with her Bennett classmates, and Belles of Liberty tells the story of the participation of the Bennett women and their contributions to the movement that lasted from 1960 until 1964. Linda is an experienced spiritual student and teacher and her latest publications are two volumes of poetry and a CD focused on Mary, the mother of Jesus, entitled A Mother Knows Her Child, and Something of His Mother to Remember, were published in 2014. Her latest publication is The House of Gratitude, a collection of poems written during the pandemic year 2020.

Linda offers classes with the School at the Space for Conscious Living on The Divine Feminine; Writing as a Spiritual Discipline; and The Effect of Patriarchy on our Spiritual Growth, and Racial Justice and the Spiritual Journey. Black Angels, her novel about three children in the Civil War was the “Okra Pick” for 2009 Annual Conference of South Carolina Independent Booksellers and was named one of the best books of 2009 by the Chicago Public Libraries.

She designed and led a Civil Rights Pilgrimage sponsored by Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in 2018 and again in 2020. Linda is currently working on a memoir entitled: Under the Crabapple Tree: Seeking the Mystery. She has been a member of the Holy Trinity for thirty years. Linda has two adult children, Christopher and Willa, and 6 grandchildren.

Thank you to Mr. Rodney Dawson for coming on the podcast to talk about redlining and the sit-in movement in Greensboro, NC. 

 He has started a summer speaker series with McGirt-Horton Library on Phillips Avenue in Greensboro.  The last program is scheduled for August 17th with Dr. Deborah Barnes. She’ll discuss lynching. The links to his speaker series and podcast are provided below. 

Future podcast release episodes:

Hip Hop & Democracy Part One

Hip Hop & Democracy Part Two

The Story of a Holocaust Survivor Part One

The Story of a Holocaust Survivor Part Two

Two Summer Speaker Series episodes:

The Black Historian Shirley Simmons: Past, Present, & Future

Greensboro History Museum “History Notes” with Sarah Anne Maske: East White Oak Mill Village-Tightly Woven