On July 5, the National Humanities Center will welcome 24 educators for the first of a series of institutes on teaching African American studies. This weeklong, immersive experience, organized in partnership with Prairie View A&M University, is part of a pilot project designed to promote more effective teaching about the African American experience and elevate the scholarly [...]
GALVESTON, Texas — June 19, 1865. A date that now rings loud across our nation, but specifically in Galveston, Texas. On that day, soldiers made their way to the small island and went to several locations to tell enslaved people they were free. This came two years after then-President Abraham Lincoln announced slavery had ended [...]
Months before George Floyd’s murder — before he cried for his mother while taking his last breath — a feeling of mediocrity had settled into my gut, an ache that spread throughout my body. I had watched the nation’s truth unfold in videos of Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery. I had bottled up words [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (May 13, 2022) - There’s not much senior chemical engineering student Taylon Owens can’t do. Of course, if you ask him, his modesty shines through. He credits his soon-to-be alma mater Prairie View A&M University with providing support and a launching place for what’s sure to be a stellar career for a [...]
As a child, Becky Vanderslice often visited family near Prairie View, where her relatives had lived for generations. One day while playing, she and her cousin came upon a ledger listing names, ages, skin colors and dollar amounts. The document was part of her family’s seldom-discussed history. Her relative, Col. Jared Kirby had owned the [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — Picture this: you're attending a university that's known for its outstanding academics programs, along with its rich history of being the first college to be supportive of African-Americans in the state of Texas. Under that rich history, lies an ugly truth that must be told to understand the present. Prairie View [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 21, 2022) - Living through a time of large-scale technological innovation can be a heady experience. Somewhat serious but mostly silly conversations about driverless cars or robot butlers are now happening in earnest, moving from late night discussions in college dorm rooms to legislative sessions in the halls of Congress. And [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas - For Melanye Price, Ph.D., it has been fulfilling to do the work accomplished in the first phase of the grant from the Mellon Foundation to the Ruth J. Simmons Center for Race and Justice. When the Foundation presented the opportunity to conceive a second phase of the project, it was nothing short of [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (April 15, 2022) - It was an exciting week for Prairie View A&M University faculty, staff and students. The university held multiple events to culminate the year-long appointment of its inaugural Writer-in-Residence, Nikki Giovanni, under PVAMU’s Toni Morrison Writing Program. The award-winning creative legend began her visit on Tuesday at Houston’s Ensemble [...]
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (March 4, 2022) - This week, Prairie View A&M University's new activist-in-residence, Melina Abdullah, visited campus to meet with students and faculty. To wrap up her visit, she marched with dozens of Panthers to the polls to support them in making their voices heard.
