WASHINGTON — The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as the Air Force’s chief of staff, elevating a four-star general who is the first black man to hold the position and who recently spoke out about his experience with racism in America.
Archive for month: June, 2020
When Winser Alexander began his academic career in 1976 as associate professor and chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at NC A&T, the underrepresentation of African Americans in academia was readily apparent. Alexander remembers attending conferences and being the only African American in the room. Through Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate – North Carolina Alliance, he hopes to change this underrepresentation among STEM faculty.
Former president and the first chancellor of N.C. Central University, Albert Nathaniel Whiting, has died at age 102. An academic and U.S. Army veteran who led the historically black university through significant growth, died on June 4 in Maryland.